I have been monitoring my use of Continental TKC70 tyres. I have found them the best tyres I have ever used. Supposedly 70/30 On and off-road but on-road I have scrubbed every inch of tyre and found them superb in the wet, and they coped well with the little off-road that I have attempted. Videos are on You tube. The best tyres I have ever used. - Tyres 3. - MOTO GUZZI V85TT & Continental TKC70s - YouTube - YouTube @duncanmotogough
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I have Conti Trail Attack 3’s on my GS and I have absolutely no doubts about them at all. I don’t think they’re really intended for the rough & boggy stuff, but they’re excellent on road, and adequate (so far) for the odd field, lane or whatever.
Are TKC 70’s a new version, I wonder?
Maybe, I was told by the expert in Cambrian Tyres that are the very latest tyre technology with a harder centre line of tread for upright tarmac travel. As you can see from my wear it was only the M5 and M4 filtering that I think finally killed the centre.
Why the filtering specifically for more wear rather than just open motorway miles?
Because of a lot of sharp breaking and accelerating in short hard bursts. I have a Michelin tyre pressure repeater on the handlebars and the rear tyre was warmed up and around 46-48 psi front perhaps at 40 psi. BTW the repeater means that I can check my tyre pressures every trip without losing any air from them and when as happened on my way to the ferry I hit a nasty bit of motorway debris with the front tyre I could monitor it for any loss of pressure due to potential damage without heading for the hard shoulder.
That’s interesting, I was wondering about checking tyres when warmed up if I needed to put air in and how much to expect them to read high by on the gauge.
The TPM for the v100 is available to buy from guzzi and apparently is the same part as used on the newer v85s but I’m not sure if the dashboard software can be updated to work with it.
How much is the Michelin TPM?
I start with 36 front and 42 rear, within 10 miles they will be up a couple of psi at the rear and 1 or so at the front. On a hot day on my last trip in Spain the rear was up to 50 and was often 48, front got up to 40. I bought my set from a fellow tradestand at the NEC a few years back so I don’t know what they are now. I think they are better than the built-in versions and I have heard of troubles resetting/software with those.
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Adding to this thread to build a v85tt tyre resource.
Mine came with Dunlop Meridan. -
On the road they are ok to good for grip and stability could be more definite in the wet . Haven’t used them off road.
Wear very good. at 8800 miles the rear still has 2 #mm tread and although it is squaring off it is not ‘whitelining’ at all.
Will be changing to Dunlop Mutants later this week - had them on an F900RX and they were brilliant in the dry - light turning and stable, consistent in the wet and very good on broken and damaged road surfaces
my second set of tyres were meridians, i didnt like them. slightly twitchy in the wet. i got 6300 miles out of them, they had probably 500-1000 miles of tread left but i changed them for metzlers which are not as hard wearing but fantastic in the wet and handle better in dry too.
I’ve done light off road with the original Dunlop Trailsmart max, the meridians, and even the metzlers (wouldn’t recommend that :D).
any mud at all and none of them are any good but the trailsmarts were ok on rough gravel tracks.
currently have michelin road 6. these are ok at legal speeds but a wobble over 90mph which may or may not be the tyres, recently had wheel bearings and headstock bearings replaced. steering doesnt feel as precise as before and slightly vague, takes a wider line than it should.
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