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Title: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: mick25 on January 29, 2015, 08:31:14 pm

Just seeing if anyone is going to give the secrets away on the flat track front tire choices,
For barleigh ranch.
For the vintage bikes .
I am new to this sliding thing so go easy , thanks mick

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: jimg1au on January 29, 2015, 09:29:46 pm

speak to sorelegs 11

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: Sorelegs11 on January 30, 2015, 08:24:58 am

The track has been a bit of everyyhing of late, deep and soft in parts andback to hard base in other parts so I would go for an intermediate knobby.

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: Graeme M on January 30, 2015, 08:48:08 am

I still reckon this front tyre business is really intriguing. I've seen every sort of tyre imaginable put to use and nearly everyone reckons something different. Intermediate, hard, soft, trail, you name it. I am running a Dunlop MX52 and it seems pretty good, plenty of other guys on it too. I also have a Dunlop MX71 (soft tyre, for a hard track) on my 1980 RM250 and it works much better than the 52 at Canberra (deco surface). But there are even guys at Canberra who swear by Michelin S12s! A tall block hard tyre, exactly the opposite of what you'd expect is needed.

To be honest I suspect anything at all is fine - if you ride hard enough it probably don't matter really.

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: John Orchard on January 30, 2015, 09:15:20 am

I'm very disappointed that Dunlop has dropped the MX71's, I loved em on hard ground, you can get away with most tyres on soft ground without any major scares, but hard, slippery ground, right there I want the best sticking tyre.

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: Graeme M on January 30, 2015, 09:34:29 am

Yep, that 71 is magic on a hard surface isn't it?  Though I wonder how some of those adventure type tyres would go in those conditions, eg the MT60 Pirelli?

(https://mprenkaat-store.com/images/pirelli-mt-60-eturengas.jpg)

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: mick25 on January 30, 2015, 10:30:30 am

Thanks for the replys guys , I have a few choices of tires by the looks of it.
 8)

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: SON on January 31, 2015, 06:32:05 am

Mick call in I will show you some tyres fitted to bikes,
In Flattrack sometimes the cheapest is the best

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: oldyzman on February 01, 2015, 10:16:16 pm

Graeme, I have looked at those tyres on the shelf and wondered the same.. Is the compound soft enough?
Brett

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: Graeme M on February 02, 2015, 06:42:41 am

I don't know Brett, I've done the fingernail test on a few of those and the MT60 seems the softest. Who knows? I also wonder about the Dunlop AT81 - low wide profile, stiff sidewalls to allow low pressures without undue flex, good intermediate tyre and works well on blue groove.

http://motocrossactionmag.com/news/mxa-team-tested-dunlop-geomax-at81-front-tire

Title: Re: Front tire choice for Barleigh ranch flat track
Post by: oldyzman on February 12, 2015, 11:17:06 pm

Yep good on blue, hope it does not rain as it would be shocking in mud....