D41 wrote:Ohhhh. That reminds me of some Mexican dessert where they fry banana slices in a little pan with whisky or sommit on them to quickly "flame" them.....then serve them with ice cream.

Forget what it's called....

You sure that's Mexican, my Mum used to make that in Staffordshire.

Looking forward to watching this thing blast up Mortimer road Dude

Doctors are just people mechanics in my mind. I respect them because they are dealing with complex machinery but they are human and will and do make mistakes in their treatment. A second opinion is easy to get and you have nothing to lose. I've done it a few times now and it's been worthwhile. Too ...

Looks nice, but I can't see a 4 stroke parallel twin floating many boats

Yeah but to be fair you probably never went out for a ride with your boss on his new Panigale! No I didn't, and I was in no way suggesting you should have been happy keeping them on, more responding to the comment why would anyone have them fitted to a sports bike. It does seem silly, but I felt I ...

I'd say they're somewhere in-between, this is what Metzeler says about them.

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^ What he says. I did 4 hours in torrential rain coming back from Wales a few weeks ago. Very impressive tyre in the wet.

Yeah but to be fair you probably never went out for a ride with your boss on his new Panigale!

Blade wrote:Why do people buy a sportsbike and then fit sports touring tyres to get a few more miles out of them but alot less enjoyment. False economy imo

Hopefully the same sort of guy that keeps a bike for 6 years, does 6000 miles and polishes the headers with a toothbrush on his day off

I think you might have more grey!

Chalk and cheese Blade, I had real doubts about the bike before I swapped them and couldn't really gel with it. Totally different bike now and I love it.

Cav wrote:I even got kneedown at 120mph on them on the road.

You'd love the Peaks, you get grass in your helmet vents!

M7 RRs, very good on the road and should be OK for the odd track day.

I've had 3 or 4 sets of the Sportsmarts, really rated them and loved the GPs

Can't remember which way around it was but one was a BT020 and one a BT023. Think the front was the 23, but not sure. This is what happened to the front after an afternoon of trying to sit on the back wheel of a Panigale. You could actually feel the steps in the tyre when you pushed the bike. IMG_06...

-1 +1, the rest is just great already

Well it is now I've got rid of those horrible tyres, man they were bad.

There is a medical distinction between "Guts" and "Balls". We've heard colleagues referring to people with "Guts", or with "Balls". Do they, however, know the difference between them? Here's the official distinction; straight from the British Medical Journal: ...

I was thinking about doing that but in reality I just won't be doing enough track days. Severe lack of time and money!

The bike is being slowly set up as a back road (b road) scratcher! Probably should have got a supermoto really but I can only have one bike and that's never going to be a supermoto.

LOL yeah not sure there is a road in the Peaks I could hit the limiter in sixth!

I've gone -1 +1, so with a 55 section tyre it will be very similar to yours.

Not on this bike Cav. Not fitted the new sprockets yet, I've only had them for 6 weeks!

But will test the standard gearing on my satnav next time I go out

mm now thinking I've wasted 80 quid!