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Their mission: to make pace. Only with the right tires can sprint around the corner at the right time to win. In part two of the motorcycle tire tests there are six current sports tires goes to for comfort. And two well-known profiles must indicate whether they can still compete.

How heavy can a set of tires in 2010, be at all? The societal urge to light and lean fetish has now arrived in the tire industry. France opened the first manufacturer Michelin House tradition, the debate about the weight of the tires. His credo: The lighter the rubber, the more manageable the motorcycle can curl around the corner. The right product to be sorted straight back fresh on the shelves of the tire dealers: The kit Michelin Power Pure braces from this test in the 120/70 front and 190/55 rear just 9.8 kg on the scale. Dunlop’s new sports Smart, by contrast, on heavy Bologna: With 11.8 kilograms of the sentence is the heaviest in this test. Lightweight fans seem so pure in its full benefits at their expense.

And easy but also for sports mad just right, especially in the rotating masses? Spickelt you on this occasion, but just on the pit wall in the direction of MotoGP. Suddenly, all other values ​​are in the room. The unit set of tires from Bridgestone for the premier class in motorcycle racing weighs over 14 kilos – the proud value gains further weight when it is in relation to the total weight of the racing machines. Since then, the set of tires make up ten percent from the motorcycle quickly. In conventional serial machines a la Fireblade and Co., the proportion of the tires just five percent.