dunlop sportmax/ qualifier??

[lumpyv]

im searching about on the net for a new rear tyre to replace my dunlop sportmax 180/55. i want to do a like for like replacement as i am happy with what i ve got.

however searching about i cant find the same tread pattern? it keeps going back to sports max qualifiers which have a different pattern the only ones i can find in my pattern are 190s are qualifiers different/interchangeable with sportsmax or are they the same.

[dragonback]

hi all i can tell you is i went for the qualifiers last year , they lasted the year and never had an iffy moment with them

[tony.mon]

Have a look at the Dunlop SportSmart.

[Diabolus]

while were on the subject of tyres im changing the front to a continental sport attack and road attack on the rear but i have loads left on the current bt020 rear.
my question is is it ok to run two diferent tyre brands e.g conti sport on the front and bt020 rear (until the rear is replaced with a conti road)

[lumpyv]

thanks for advice gents. i think my problem was that i was looking for exactly the same tread pattern as my existing ones but it has perhaps been discontinued ? i was tired / been at the wine when i was looking so head not quite in gear.

[lumpyv]

Have a look at the Dunlop SportSmart.

hi tony. are these better than the qualifiers?

[lumpyv]

just looked again on e bay and qualifiers are a lot cheaper so i guess they are not so good or old stock?

[tony.mon]

Nope, can't make it any bigger.

Anyone able to assist?
Ta.

[Wicky]

[VTRDark]

Is this any better.


Click on thumbnail to view larger.

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you beat me to it.

[tony.mon]

Thanks!

(pm me how to do that, would you?)


Anyway, as you can see the sportmax is called a sportsmart by Dunlop and fits as shown in the range.
I like them, and they last really well, great wet grip and good dry grip, too.
Fast warm-up.

I don't need any more than they offer.

Oh, and they run with lower pressures for track days without feeling like you're riding through syrup.
But lower pressures on the road loses a bit of feel at the front, and you need to modify your front fork settings if you're doing this, by the way.

[Wicky]

I found your photobuckt account - clicked the thumbnail which brings up the bigger sized pic and nabbed the jpg code or img tagged jpg for the larger image. I think you were copying just the code for the ickle thumbnail preview.

[VTRDark]

Yep that's what I pretty much done. But to grab the full size image I removed part of the URL to go back through the folders.
As the URL stands

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I removed the

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from the end to go back a level to the main album. Note I left the forward slash

How it works Tony is that each / forward slash is a folder on the server, so when there's no way on the page supplied to go back you can do it manually. So in the original URL I removed the thumbnail pic

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and went back to the album

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VTaRse

. It's best to leave the forward slash at the end unless it's a file and not a folder. Ie. it ends in a file format, .jpg .html for example.

Have fun

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[lumpyv]

thanks for that gents. qualifiers are available at about 160 a pair and the sportmax are about 240 so bearing in mind im not exactly casey stoner and there is a recession on i may go for the qualifiers.
they get reasonable reviews..

[VTRDark]

Sounds like a good choice. Got to have some touring capabilities in there. £160 is cheap for two new tyres. A pair of Brigestone BT023's on my Fazer cost me over £200. And that was over 6 months ago

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