Tyres, Brakes and Suspension » Terrible and disappointing tires

There were a few threads regarding tire choices - generally full of positive advice on one piece of rubber or another or interest in newest and latest.

I'm curious if there are any genuinely terrible modern-ish tires in recent time that made you switch immediately or generally largely before the wear required it due to a given tire providing poor feedback/grip/performance... For the sake of it let's ignore the Chinese $40 contenders no one in their right mind would install on their bike.

My experience with Dunlop D222's generally made me wary of Dunlop - soured the whole brand even the possibilities of their high-tier stuff.
Vague feedback, mediocre grip, beyond slippery in any wet scenario and have a tendency to turn to plastic as soon as temps fall below 10-12C.

I rode some cheap tires (tyres) in decades past, and they might have limited my corner speeds, but never thought of them at the time as terrible. I've been consistently surprised by great performance of good tires; never surprised by mediocre tires.

If I rode an expensive tire and wanted to blame my slow times on the tire, I guess I could express disappointment...,

but in the end, I like the MRVVRROOMM's 3Rs approach to tire purchases. (Round, rubber, rebate), and I admire his skill to adapt to what he's riding and leave me and my carefully tuned tires(tyres) and suspension in the dust.

I figure that if I can't figure out pressures and suspension to get the most out of a dog of a tire, I'm not as good as I should be.

In that context, I offer Ryan Kluftinger's experiment with a car tire. He seemed pretty happy in a perfomance-to-price ratio sort of way and keeps the whole concept of bad tires in perspective.

I think even modern Chinese motorcycle tires are likely better than some name-brand tires sold 20 or 30 years ago. I have ridden on Avon Roadmaster (AKA Slipmaster), Michelin ME88 and Bridgestone S11 touring tires that wore like iron and had similar levels of traction on damp roads, even when completely upright, much less trying to corner with them.

Tires do seem to be getting better as time marches on, of course they no longer cost $80 each like in the past. Or $16 each when you could buy an Allstate motorcycle tire, capable of supporting a H-D big twin, out of the Sears Roebuck catalog. Ah, the good old days. They just don't make them like that anymore........

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