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tyre recommendation for cold/wet winter days
nstrug - 24/11/08 at 05:05 PM

Hi -

My brother-in-law frequently uses his Indyblade for his B-road commute in winter, and has found that the Kumho Ecsta KU33s that he has, while fine on warm summer days, are lacking in grip on cold winter mornings.

Presumably he would have a lot more grip with softer AO48s or R888s or equivalent, but of course these don't do very well in the wet.

So can someone recommend a tyre that is both soft enough for BEC use in the cold, and has decent grip in the wet?

Cheers,
Nick

minitici - 24/11/08 at 05:29 PM


These look grippy enough

speedyxjs - 24/11/08 at 05:32 PM

jeffw - 24/11/08 at 05:33 PM

021 ?

jos - 24/11/08 at 06:43 PM

yup yokohama a021's

nstrug - 24/11/08 at 06:44 PM

AO21R certainly looks like what he needs.

Nick

tomblyth - 24/11/08 at 07:13 PM

toyo t1r's Donnington have them on there single seaters so must be ok on light cars as well as average road tin box's and tere fine it the wet!

jimgiblett - 24/11/08 at 07:50 PM

AO21s or AO48 wets perhaps

- Jim

02GF74 - 24/11/08 at 08:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by minitici

These look grippy enough


those are fairly open tread mud terrain type tyres. From their name, you can guess they are pretty grippy in the mud but sod all use on wet tarmac due to there being so little rubber in contact.

Don't ask how I know (clue: I have similar on the Landy)

ReMan - 24/11/08 at 11:34 PM

Respect !

Proxes are not bad.
They wont get very warm , but you have to be trying to unstick them in the wet on the road and are a good price and wear well

[Edited on 25/11/08 by ReMan]

clairetoo - 25/11/08 at 06:47 AM

A vote for Proxes from me as well

britishtrident - 25/11/08 at 08:19 AM

Kleber used to be the wet weather road tyre for sprinting.

britishtrident - 25/11/08 at 08:20 AM

quote:
Originally posted by minitici

These look grippy enough



Strange as it may seem winter tyres are not good in the wet.

NS Dev - 25/11/08 at 09:30 PM

NOT Yoko A048 R's