Re: Street driving on BFG R1's

[audidudi@delphi.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>I think that the strightline, very little turning forces
>encountered in street driving do not use up the race tires
>at anywhere near the rate of track driving.

The problem I've noticed with using R1s on the street is that they tend to
tramline quite a bit ... I suppose the alignments I run probably don't help
but when I switch back to my Dunlop SP-8000s, most of it goes away. (BTW,
they're also pretty noisy...)

>But remember, on a good set of street tires you can get
>25,000-40,000 miles, on a good set of R1s 600-900 miles.

Nonsense ... I've gotten upwards of 5,000 miles on a set several times.
 
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