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Old July 11th, 2019, 09:10 AM   #14
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Name: Eric
Location: MA
Join Date: May 2019

Motorcycle(s): 2005 250

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New ContiScoot: are 'performance' scooter tires really performance tires?

Continental has a new premium scooter tire with some loose connection to their latest ContiRoadAttack 3 sport touring tire. The Conti Scoot rear 120/80-16 tire is extremely affordable at less than $70 locally and less than $60 online. Continental talks it up (surprise) and refers to internal tests against two unspecified benchmark tires https://www.contimotousablog.com/con...-scooter-tire/ and one German online retailer ranks it highest among all maxi scooter tires https://bikereifen24.de/maxi-scooter...fen-test-2019/, but it's too new to find trustworthy reviews or tests. It will be interesting to see how this performs on our 16" wheel Ninjas.

Has anyone taken their Ninja to the track on sporty scooter tires? How have they performed? It concerns me that all the scooter tires in our sizes are only P speed rated for speeds up to 93mph. That's lower than the Q rating for car snow tires. I can stay below 93, but don't want to risk a blowout at lower high speeds or make my Ninja handle or feel like a fast scooter.
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