When fellow contributor Jerry Smith reviewed Pirelli’s Scorpion Trail tires in the January 2011 issue, he concentrated on their street performance. After testing the...
Motorcycles subject tires to an enormous range of forces, stresses and heat. Fortunately, motorcycle tires are overdesigned to be able to meet those needs...
by James Parchman
If you own a motorcycle manufactured in the 21st Century, there’s probably a wide variety of replacement tires for your machine. But...
Greg Drevenstedt
Using the aggressive language popular in motorsports marketing, Continental high-performance radials go by the name “Attack,” the idea being that a set of...
About three years ago the folks at Dunlop Motorcycle Tires took on the seemingly impossible challenge to develop a tire that would meet the unreasonable demands...
Following the introduction of the new Bridgestone BT-023 sport-touring tire line in Japan and my factory tour and tire review from that trip (Rider, August...
Dualism is the dynamic struggle between opposing forces. Good and evil, positive and negative, yin and yang, that sort of thing. Pirelli clearly understands...
I love Dunlop’s tag line, “Accelerate your soul.” Motorcycles do just that, what with astonishing power-to-weight ratios and an ability to lean that makes...
Review by Rich Cox
Last March Metzeler conducted an overnight press launch in Palm Springs, California, to introduce its latest sport-touring tire, the Roadtec Z6...
Since completing the MotoVentures dirt-bike school last year (see Rider, November 2008), dual-sport riding has been my new jam. Even with excellent OHV areas...
By James Parchman
Designed initially for the Euro market, the tough-looking dual-sport and adventure-touring beasts with which we’re all familiar were named (Paris-Dakar, Tiger, Trans-Alp,...
Nothing like a definitive description to fire the imagination. “The Roadsmart sport-touring tire achieves or exceeds all of the design team’s goals. When compared...
Review by Steve Bohn
Pirelli’s new line of high-performance motorcycle tires is aimed squarely at cruisers. More precisely, the Italian tire manufacturer has its sights...
Pirelli's new line of high-performance tires is aimed squarely at cruisers. More precisely, the Italian tire manufacturer has its sights set on the Harley-Davidson...
Review by Ken Freund
The Sport Attack motorcycle tires replace the long-running Conti Force Max and doubles the Continental’s Attack product line, which until now...