Gatorskins

Bordersroadie

Ai_1 wrote:

Bordersroadie wrote:

GP4S are expensive and as soft as sh1te, cut up and puncture far more regularly than Gators.

Slippy in wet? All tyres are if you corner fast enough.

I'll let you in on an astonishing solution: corner a bit slower in the wet if you're on Gators.

Yes GP4 Seasons are expensive, I agree with you there. However, I disagree about them being overly soft, easily cut up or puncturing more regularly than Gatorskins.

As for your comments about grip. These seem silly to me......It's nonsense to say going slower is a solution to poorer grip....Your proposed "solution" to just go slower is ridiculous.

On softness, for me personally, on the same roads year round, GP4S are the only tyres where I have had cuts right through the carcass, and more punctures per 1,000 miles than any other tyre. I'm just reporting as I've experienced them. They're great fast grippy tyres but soft and easily cut.

On grip, you may think my comments "silly", or "nonsense" or "ridiculous" (I'm detecting a trend here. . .) but the fact is that when I ride any of my bikes round corners in the wet, I go faster on those tyres I'm confident with the grip of (GP4000s's, GP4S) and a bit slower on those where I know the ultimate wet grip is a bit less (Gatorskins and Hardshells). I don't see which part of going a bit slower, for an admittedly less grippy tyre, is "silly" or any of your other condescending terms for the same thing.

The difference in cornering speed is slight and like millions of other riders I have never found to be true this "super slippy" urban myth-based reputation.

As we all know, tyres are a compromise of several performance features (price, weight, grip, speed, puncture-resistance, wear rate, road feel etc) and Gatorskins deserve their place as a well-respected lowish cost reliable tyre in the "hardwearing puncture resistant" segment they cover. That they don't roll and grip like a racing tub misses their point somehow.