Alirght peeps


Am off to my first track day in a few weeks and am after a set of decent track tyres part worn as i dont fancy my dunlops sliding out from under me at druids and looking like an ar** as my 10 ends up in the gravel pit!! if anyone can help would appreciate i live in crawley so somewhere from the south would be better as i could pick them up

thanks very much



Baz

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Alirght peeps


Am off to my first track day in a few weeks and am after a set of decent track tyres part worn as i dont fancy my dunlops sliding out from under me at druids and looking like an ar** as my 10 ends up in the gravel pit!! if anyone can help would appreciate i live in crawley so somewhere from the south would be better as i could pick them up

thanks very much



Baz

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commandos dont die they go to hell and re-group!!!

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Good luck with the first Track day-dont get drawn in-(I take it its at Brands "Druids)".Mind the "small dip)" on the ouside line just as you gas it on to the start/finish straight.

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Am off to my first track day in a few weeks and am after a set of decent track tyres part worn as i dont fancy my dunlops sliding out from under me at druids and looking like an ar** as my 10 ends up in the gravel pit!!

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Serious point:

Firstly, you want a matched pair of tyres - one won't cut it.

Even more serious point: If this is your first track day, you probably don't want race tyres, you have to be riding bloody hard to get them hot enough to work properly and keep them hot enough to work properly. And cold race tyres are shit. Unless you are intending to lap Brands Indy in well under a minute, you are better off on sticky road tyres. They will warm up more quickly, they will reach operating temperature with less... err... bravery required, and they will handle repeated heating and cooling much, much better than race tyres.

And they will still work to some extent if it chucks it down. Which race take-offs definitely won't.

And you'll have no problem getting your knee down on sticky road tyres either.

If you find that you are getting towards the limit of sticky road tyres on the track, by which time you'll be fast-group fast, then by all means consider race tyres and tyre warmers and all that shite. But for your first time on a track, you really don't want to be doing that.

Hope this helps...

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