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The common thread is that there is a handling penalty on straight and level. i agree, I have a 225/55 fitted to my R3 and the dealer here in Aus asked me why?... Why? The Metz costs $450AUD (Our Peso) plus fitting, about $50. My Toyo cost me $159 plus $10 bucks for a real tyre pro to take the old Metz off, yes he did it with a lot of soap on his spinning wheel and he fitted the Toyo on with the same machine then he balanced it, all for $10.
Personally, I dont like it on a road with a camber as you have to feed in a lot of input to the bars. I havn't ridden it anymore than 200Km so I need to do more. BUT I won't change back to the crap Metz as it is just not a suitable tyre for this machine. I am not a hard rider but my son is and between us we shredded the 1st Metz in 5,200Km. bout 3k miles.
At 6300Km, the gearbox **** itself. Yep jumps outa 1st and jumps outa 2nd just at the wrong time. Took it back to the doctors/dealers who said, "Oh yeh, we got a kit for that". 3 weeks later I get the R3 back and its all good again.
I think the stats are that 1 in 3 are having this problem. The output shaft bearing lets go and takes out the main shaft and some gears. They don't say much but luckily I did find a guy there that was able to fess up at this problem. Its a biggie guys, don't let them pull the wool over your eyes, mines an 08 model, they said "oh yeh its the older ones" like crap it is.
Aussie John
The common thread is that there is a handling penalty on straight and level. i agree, I have a 225/55 fitted to my R3 and the dealer here in Aus asked me why?... Why? The Metz costs $450AUD (Our Peso) plus fitting, about $50. My Toyo cost me $159 plus $10 bucks for a real tyre pro to take the old Metz off, yes he did it with a lot of soap on his spinning wheel and he fitted the Toyo on with the same machine then he balanced it, all for $10.
Personally, I dont like it on a road with a camber as you have to feed in a lot of input to the bars. I havn't ridden it anymore than 200Km so I need to do more. BUT I won't change back to the crap Metz as it is just not a suitable tyre for this machine. I am not a hard rider but my son is and between us we shredded the 1st Metz in 5,200Km. bout 3k miles.
At 6300Km, the gearbox **** itself. Yep jumps outa 1st and jumps outa 2nd just at the wrong time. Took it back to the doctors/dealers who said, "Oh yeh, we got a kit for that". 3 weeks later I get the R3 back and its all good again.
I think the stats are that 1 in 3 are having this problem. The output shaft bearing lets go and takes out the main shaft and some gears. They don't say much but luckily I did find a guy there that was able to fess up at this problem. Its a biggie guys, don't let them pull the wool over your eyes, mines an 08 model, they said "oh yeh its the older ones" like crap it is.
Aussie John