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mcpuffett:
i remember some of the old tyre makes like avon roadrunners, pirelli phantoms, dunlop tt100's,avon speedmasters (squaredeaths) anyone remember those ?  mick.

SteveD CB500F:

--- Quote from: mcpuffett on April 06, 2005, 03:12:52 PM ---i remember some of the old tyre makes like avon roadrunners, pirelli phantoms, dunlop tt100's,avon speedmasters (squaredeaths) anyone remember those ?  mick.

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Yep.

My 500 had TT100s on when I bought it. "Great" I thought, the first tyre to lap the Island at 100mph - must be good.  If anyone recalls they had a sort of triangular section to aid grip while cornering. Unfortunately that meant that they wore out down the middle in about 1000 miles of enthusiastic road riding!

Dunlop Red Arrows next (most expensive tyres at the time - until Phantoms came along) - they looked cool with red line and arrows and white lettering. Pretty good on the raod as well. Mine were recalled by Dunlop (this was 1977) due to some manufacturing scare and the dealer fitted Avon Roadrunners front and rear. I've used them ever since as the best compromise.

Weren't Speedmasters for sidecars?

mcpuffett:
yep that's right you could and did use the square profile on outfits ,i built a motorbike and sidecar to pass my test on it was a honda cj250t (yellow)  with a wooden box on the side me and half of lancaster took our test on that bike  mick.

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