Rusevelt Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Heard about this from watching Motogp of using different compounds for each side of the tyre. Guess this type of tyre would be more ideal for street/park use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Motorbike tyres have used dual compound tyres for well over ten years now, the idea is that the centre section is harder wearing and the shoulders softer for corner grip. Pretty pointless in trials when a long lasting compound for the loss of grip in the middle of the tyre (most commonly used portion of the carcass) is egger you want the group to start with:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusevelt Posted July 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Was thinking on idea of the tyre knobbly pattern being harder wearing, whilst the carcass is medium/soft. Sidewalls could be a combination of the two compounds for heavy leaning angles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Dark Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Kenda Nevegals and small block eight come in a DTC dual tread compound. Problem is in trials we rely on the centre tread holding out at least as much as the sides so it has to be a pretty uniform tread pattern. Onza Sticky fingers were the reverse of the Kendas i think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Each side of the tyre? As in, left and right? That doesn't sound useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezgonzo Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 (edited) Each side of the tyre? As in, left and right? That doesn't sound useful. if you think about it logicly it is useful, it's quit hard too actually put it into words but i will give it a bash . irc most tracks go clockwise and have more right hand corner's, this means that one side of the tyre is always hotter than the other, so the right hand side of the tyre always has more grip than the left hand side, in order to compansate for this you could have a slightly softer compound on the left hand side of the tyre that requires less heat inorder to reach similar grip levels as the harder compound on the right hand side of the tyre, this would also provide teams with a lot more choice's regarding which tyre too use, for longer races they would be able to run a harder compound on the right side without compromising grip in the left hand corners. not too sure how much sence that makes but it sounds about right in my head . Edited July 3, 2011 by ezgonzo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike_dummie Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 didn't onza make a tyre like this think it was called a sticky finger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali C Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 if you think about it logicly it is useful, it's quit hard too actually put it into words but i will give it a bash . irc most tracks go clockwise and have more right hand corner's, this means that one side of the tyre is always hotter than the other, so the right hand side of the tyre always has more grip than the left hand side, in order to compansate for this you could have a slightly softer compound on the left hand side of the tyre that requires less heat inorder to reach similar grip levels as the harder compound on the right hand side of the tyre, this would also provide teams with a lot more choice's regarding which tyre too use, for longer races they would be able to run a harder compound on the right side without compromising grip in the left hand corners. not too sure how much sence that makes but it sounds about right in my head . Pretty sure most cycle tracks (like velodromes) go anti-clockwise.......just sayin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Although in trials, which doesn't have tracks, it's not useful at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezgonzo Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 (edited) Pretty sure most cycle tracks (like velodromes) go anti-clockwise.......just sayin. Although in trials, which doesn't have tracks, it's not useful at all. totally agree this type of tyre (soft one side hard the other) is useless for trials, my responce was in reference to the op regarding the use of daul compound tyres in motogp . Edited July 3, 2011 by ezgonzo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 I do actually wear the left side of my tyres out faster than the right, but I'm not that fussed about it enough to want a dual compound tyre. Pretty sure you could sell dozens of them to weekend warrior MTB trail centre riders though. "Oh yeah, Lee Quarry's 70% right handers so I'm going to have to have the right side tyre on." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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