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Avon Storm 3D XM - any fans?
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Hi - does anyone have experience of these tyres (Wessie - I know you use Avon and rate them, are they these?)? |
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Yes, I have the Storm 3 on my RS and will put them on the XR when the current tyres wear out. I would also recommend the Storm 2 for lighter bikes like my old Tracer. |
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here's your base price - £155 a pair |
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I have about 8000 miles on these and the front seems to be getting close to the wear bars. Still plenty of tread depth on the rear but I think the profile is starting to go off. |
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Getting a set fitted Saturday. Managed to find these: |
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Zitat von Paul B im Beitrag #5 Are you going to Steve Lynn for fitting? I would of met you there and had a play down the B600 with you but will be in Oxford moving the contents of my fathers garage into two 9 cu yard skips
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Pair of Avon Storm 3D XMs fitted this morning. |
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just short of 9000 miles and the Avon Storm 3D are not quite at the wear bars but need replacing as the profile is not optimal plus they would not last the trip to Spain. |
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I was undecided between Avon and Dunlop Roadsmart lll . I had a set of Dunlop which I run to 16,680 kms. Pretty happy with handling and grip. The price was better on Avon but I went for another set of Dunlop. I will keep an eye on feedback on Avon tire , they seem pretty much equivalent
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Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:35 pm (Last edited: Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:36 pm)
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Zitat von Loftyjohn im Beitrag #10 Not a problem - the sensors are positioned so the are not affected by the bead breaker. TPS may be a relative novelty on bikes but has been fitted to cars for decades. The vulnerable parts on bike wheels are the encoder rings for the ABS. Less so on the BMW but the one on my Yamaha Tracer rear wheel was bent by a tyre fitter. Cost them £15 for a new one. I imagine you would add a zero for a BMW one. |
Zitat von Loftyjohn im Beitrag #10 I change my own tires and don't have a problem with the tire pressure sensors. You just have to install the tires in a way that will not get in the way of the sensors. What I do is to lever the tire bead over the section of the wheel with the sensors last so that the opposite side of the tire can slip into the "drop" section of the rim - what there is of it.
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Just replaced my completely worn PR4s (9000 miles so not bad) with the Avons. Need to scrub them in properly, but I’m afraid it will be the commute which will do this job :( |
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Mon Jul 05, 2021 4:15 pm (Last edited: Mon Jul 05, 2021 9:33 pm)
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Price update: last had tyres fitted on the RS in 2019 and have just completed 7000 miles. The front is down to the wear bars, rear would be fine for another 1000 miles but I just had a quote for another pair. Now £25 more at £220 fitted to the bike and https://www.chrismullins.co.uk/ in Gloucester has them in stock. |
