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At 12:54 PM 5/8/01 -0400, Frederic Luneau wrote:

>As anyone ever tried Kenda K657? Will a 130/90 and a 90/100 fit? >How about a Dunlop K491 Elite II at the rear (130/90)? > >Any other suggestion, apart from the Metzeler ME33/ME55 combo? >

The single best combination I have run to date is a AM 24 Gripster on the front and a Avon Roadrunner touring tire on the rear. Sticks good on pavement, works as well as anything else on gravel and 12,000 mile life. -Tom '96 KLR 650

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., Frederic Luneau wrote:

> As anyone ever tried Kenda K657? Will a 130/90 and a 90/100 fit? > How about a Dunlop K491 Elite II at the rear (130/90)? > > Any other suggestion, apart from the Metzeler ME33/ME55 combo? > > TIA > > Fred

I'm running Kings KT-967 Dual Sport tires and have about 2500 miles on them. The rear calculates to give me 4500-5000mi and the front 11000 to 12000 mi. That assumes I replace at 2mm tread depth which I do plan to do. I think the set cost me under $110 from my dealer. I'll report my actual milage when I replace them which should be this summer I think. http://www.kingstire.com/dual.html Brad A9

> The single best combination I have run to date is a AM 24

Gripster

> on the front and a Avon Roadrunner touring tire on the rear. Sticks

good

> on pavement, works as well as anything else on gravel and 12,000

mile life.

> > -Tom > '96 KLR 650

Tom, Does the 130/90-17 Roadrunner give you any clearance problems since it is a little oversized? Brad '95 KLR

At 12:22 PM 5/9/01 +0000, Brad Davis wrote:

> > The single best combination I have run to date is a AM 24 >Gripster > > on the front and a Avon Roadrunner touring tire on the rear. Sticks >good > > on pavement, works as well as anything else on gravel and 12,000 >mile life. > > > > -Tom > > '96 KLR 650 > >Tom, >Does the 130/90-17 Roadrunner give you any clearance problems since it >is a little oversized? >Brad >'95 KLR

Aside from a little adjustment of the chain guard, no, there are no clearance problems. -Tom Ordering a RoadRunner this month '96 KLR 650

>As anyone ever tried Kenda K657? Will a 130/90 and a 90/100 fit? >How about a Dunlop K491 Elite II at the rear (130/90)? > >Any other suggestion, apart from the Metzeler ME33/ME55 combo?

The Metzler Enduro 4, stock sizing, makes an excellent, sticky and long mileage road tire. == Rev. Chuck :^)>+ A13 Antelope, California http://KLR650.WWW.50Megs.Com/ http://DualSports.OnWeb.CX/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _____________________________________________________________

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Mike Peplinski wrote:

> As much as I hate to ask a tire question-Can anyone comment on road-only > tires? I've got a Grtipster on now and its pretty noisy. I"m leaning toward > the Trail Wing but would prefer a Kings or Kenda. WEt traction is real > important.

I like the Kenda 761. It has okay wet traction, and in the dry is quite stickey. The Kings KT-966 is noisier than the Gripster. I haven't tried the KT-967 so I can't say whether that would do what you want. -Eric