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Offline findoutnow

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wee tyres
« on: May 06, 2013, 08:49:19 »
good morning everyone.can anybody tell me if its OK to fit a metzeler front with an anakee 2 rear on my 650 wee? thanks in advance for the help. :)
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Offline frez

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Re: wee tyres
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2013, 10:20:49 »
Don't mix x-ply with radial. Other than that rule I've never had a problem with different brands front and rear.
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Offline Andy M

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Re: wee tyres
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2013, 12:13:18 »
+1 Brands are pretty meaningless.

I have mixed radial and cross ply when I wasn't willing to deal with trying to import stuff into foreign parts when I could just buy the "wrong" one (think it was a X-ply rear that did 3000 miles paired with a radial front on the F650). Honestly I don't see what all the fuss is about, but there again the nastier East European plod could just chuck you in the Gulag regardless and the Western ones can't read the codes while you are at 60 mph. I would have to be pretty stuck to mix them in the UK though, it would be my luck to get caught in some roadside VOSA thing.

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Offline jimbo8098

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Re: wee tyres
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2013, 13:49:42 »
Don't see any problem with mixing tyres , it's more to do with the make up of the tyre. Don't mix slicks with knobblies etc. I wouldn't know to trust them for hard riding though. I would rather have 2 matched tyres for that.
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