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Re: Opinions on Tires - Standard vs. Busa Spec
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2011, 05:41:33 PM »
You don't need Hayabusa-specific tires for the Hayabusa. 

Everybody has their own favorite tire, so I'm not going to recommend one specific tire.

Race compound tires are useless on the street.  There's only a handful of people here that are even capable of getting enough heat into race compound tires for them to stick, and we don't generally ride on the street like that anyways.  Also, race compound tires are only good for a handfull of heat cycles before they get hard.  All you're doing is wasting money on tires that are going to wear out in a few hundred miles of street riding, and are going to offer less traction than a regular street tire at the temperatures that you're going to be riding them at.
-Kirk