Unlike motorists, scooter drivers time to "change" comes in September. Winter tires can not be afraid of cold asphalt and having a hellish blame" even in nasty autumn downpour.
Is it possible that the rubber was the same, holding it in heat and cold? Theoretically, yes, but it would be the same as bad. You don't have to go to the white flies to feel the way that the motorcycle loses the motorcycle when it's about seven degrees cold. (All right, if you start with the tips of your fingers, not the wrong one.) The reason is that the lower limit of the calculated temperatures of the majority of the motor tyres, as evidenced by the data and independent tests, and the manufacturers themselves. Someone (for example, Bridgestone) is slightly lower, and, for example, some Pirelli models are "surrendering" already at plus 10. (By the word, "swimming" on the red-hot asphalt "bridge" is also beginning before others, and "Italians", respectively, later). As a result, it was another month before the season was closed, and it was as unpleasant to turn it as if you had "overtaken" in the Chinese. A way out or a whisper, or ... Or change the tires for the appropriate season: "winter" or, to be precise, "demiseonality", denoted as a rule, by the icon M + S (Mud + Snow-"Grow + Snow"). When exactly is "rebudo"? I think the nighttime temperature is 5 ° C. In the spring, it is better to travel more than a few weeks after the freezing of the night freeze. Although there's a purely winter "obsession." "Petrosshina", whose ultra-soft (read: almost no soot), allows the worst-poor to travel and to the bitter cold. And for the scooterists who want to travel all year round, the Japanese IRC model SN-23 Urban Snow, produced in 28 (!) typologies. The compound is not "duet" degrees up to 12 frost, and the sparse endurous tread, in the same saturated lamel, allows you to cling on to the dead-end asphalt. As a result, the winter street is frightening, but it is possible, especially if it is cleared by ice. The opposite side of the coin-in the warm autumn day to go the same awful: it gives the impression that you are going on half-down tires or on crossbars. In the opposite direction, the developers of Metzeler went on to create a "vesezzo" Wintec based on the not too successful Feelfree moxie. The rector was almost untouched, only slightly short of little hands, and then the Compaound reworked again. But not by softening it, but by making its properties more independent of temperature. In the range from 10 to 40 ° C, the "retention" has deteriorated not much, but at the onset of a critically low temperature it does not fall obdally, but remains the same up to near-zero temperatures, and only then the water is reduced to -20. I was shocked. At the end of the year before last September, Yamaha Tmax in Feelfree Wintec, the next day fell into the cold (+ 2-3 degrees) autumn rain, through which I ... Moreover, until the end of the season at the end of the season, it was the rainy weather, when the mud washed away from the road, and hardly a mixture of swarm, nicknamed in the people, and in the dry weather she had to be more careful (120-140 km/h), like the summer of the beginning of the rain. For a long time, the main disadvantage of Feelfree Wintec was a narrow range of sizes designed exclusively for the 500-850th "supermasi". However, the tires and the "normal" scooters with 10-13-inch wheels have appeared on the sale last autumn. It is alleged that they are made in the same technologies as the 14-16-inch (with the exception of the superstructure-"babies" are not radial, but diagonal). "The parquet" Metzeler and blatantly non-road IRC look extreme against the background of the segment discoverer, German Heidenau. The most famous were its tires, external indistinguishable from universal K58 and -62 (and more recently -66 and -77). And not only "snow people" is known: thanks to the ultra-soft compound, these tires have been in love ... in the scooter. German athletes argue that the K62 Snowtex is no worse off than the skates, but they do not need warm-up progress. It was an assessment of this circumstance and in the stingy "ring": they say this rubber is much more effective than the stingers of "rainwater", especially when the rain is not dripping, but the lion. The reverse side of the omnibus problem is three to five times higher wear at "summer" temperatures. But the "winter" version of the more "advanced" model, the C66 LT, like Feelfree Wintec, differs from "base" not so much a softer board than the more advanced components of it (in particular, the increased content of the silica), as well as the presence of lamchales. As long as this tyre is only produced in two dimensions (both for 12 inches), the most common are 120/70 and 130/70. What about the eternal competitors and the Heidenau fellow countrymen? Schwalbe Renfenwerk still produces the Iceman-direct competitor of IRC Urban Snow, only with a directional pattern of tread and ... with smaller choice of sizes. But Iceman has a version of "nails"-with a car-type spigot. Recently, Iceman has appeared a direct competitor-the Slovenian Sava has released the "winter" version of the SM3 tyre and its "shepherd" modification. And Kenda was a very economical one. I didn' t go, I don't know (I'm afraid of these covers-there are many bad experiences), but European importers claim that K701 M + S is also able to work on cold asphalt. Competition is escalating. " The use of winter or all-season rubber in snow or frost for all mechanical CTS is compulsory from December 10 last year in Germany (under the threat of a fine of 40-80 euros). So the assortment of such tyres should be significantly increased this autumn-and, more importantly, to be added to the purely motorcycle typosizes, which (and those in a very limited quantity) are still only water from Heidenau. "Winter" versions of Heidenau are indistinguishable from "universal" tyres of the respective models. The difference is in a particularly flexible (Snowtex) tread or in an elevated table of silica that stabilizes the properties of the compound. Metzler Feelfree Wintec is different from "just" Feelfree's more thermostatic mound and lamops in the tread.