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MTBeemer wrote:

Dad2g5 wrote:Nobody answered the question. Can you lean hard on the PR3's. I'm on my second set of conti's and I can scrape my pegs. Can that be done with the PR3's? Thanks in advance.

If the answer to your question is no, then those that he=ave found out are probably incapable of responding.

I've scraped pegs with the stock Metzelers. I'm hearing really good things about the PR3s - I'm sure they handle "extreme lean angles" well.

Thanks for all the responses. I only asked because I ride this thing pretty hard(crotch rocket hard). As I said before I like the conti's, the pr3's sound good but I might try the pirelli diablo corsa 2's. A couple of friends have them on their bikes and they do good on our mountain days.

Haven't had mine long enough to say.....

my pr 2's totally out performed the newer, "better?" pr 3's. i'll be going back to pr 2's from now on out.

I'll take the Pirelli Angel ST's on my R1200R (single compound). Nice in curves and in the rain. now 9 K on it. This season going true

Put new PR3's on my 12R last fall the day before it went to toy storage for the winter, so no experience on our bike. Rented an RT with brand new PR3's on it last week in Arizona; a thousand miles of twisties, rain, snow and Northern Canadian temperatures. I wore off all of the mold jumblies, had a fairly substantial two wheel drift on a graveled corner and the tires performed flawlessly. They made me look good. I highly recommend.

Doug

I put a pr2 on the front to match the rear. With the wheel out I thought I would wash the mudguard, polish it and the fork legs. There were only six bolts holding the mudguard on but the bottom bolt that screws into a lug on the fork sheared off flush with the lug . "Oh dear," I thought (a loose translation you understand). Being cackhanded (technologically inept) I couldn't get a pilot hole centred on the broken bolt, so I got a mate to come and have a go for me. We eventually got a hole threaded after breaking off a stud extractor and two twist drills. So tomorrow I'll get it all reassembled.
I have an unerring knack of making a pigs ear out of a simple job. As Clint Eastwood said in Dirty Harry, "A man's got to know his limitations!" Hence my bike usually goes to the dealer

Phil

Woland wrote:

ammolab wrote:Pilot 3 buyers / users:

You are buying the normal Pilots and not the "suffix B" Pilot 3s that are listed for "two up touring", right?

I would expect the "suffix Bs" to be for bikes a bit heavier than the R1200R.

Yep, I'm running normal 3's and not B. Got about 7000km's on them and they seem to have lost minimal thread so far, very pleased with them.

Is that the consensus, i.e. use the regular version and not the "B"? On my weekend trips I carry around 40-50 lbs. extra including the bags and rarely ride two up.

hjsbmw wrote:

Woland wrote:

ammolab wrote:Pilot 3 buyers / users:

You are buying the normal Pilots and not the "suffix B" Pilot 3s that are listed for "two up touring", right?

I would expect the "suffix Bs" to be for bikes a bit heavier than the R1200R.

Yep, I'm running normal 3's and not B. Got about 7000km's on them and they seem to have lost minimal thread so far, very pleased with them.

Is that the consensus, i.e. use the regular version and not the "B"? On my weekend trips I carry around 40-50 lbs. extra including the bags and rarely ride two up.

Yep, coming up on 10k km on my regular PR3's, and I'm a heavy guy probably atleast 130kg with gear, wearing just fine, plenty of rubber left just the back tire starting to get a little flat in the middle.

I use the regular RP3's also. My third set is sitting in the garage ready to go on. I'm getting over 10K miles out of the rear and it would most likely go 12K but I have a trip coming up. I change both tires at the same time so I'm throwing out the front tire with only half the rubber gone. I'm 210 lbs and most of the miles are with an additional 50 Lbs of camping gear on board.
My drag racing days are over so I don't come off the lights hard, but I do like to use the tires in the curves. Even with the eventual flat spot caused by 10K miles the right to left transition is still stable and the tires never lost the feeling of confidence, even when taking them to the edge.
Now if they only had a little more sideways traction in the gravel and sand they would be the perfect tire.

mogu83 wrote:I use the regular RP3's also. My third set is sitting in the garage ready to go on. I'm getting over 10K miles out of the rear and it would most likely go 12K but I have a trip coming up. I change both tires at the same time so I'm throwing out the front tire with only half the rubber gone. I'm 210 lbs and most of the miles are with an additional 50 Lbs of camping gear on board.
My drag racing days are over so I don't come off the lights hard, but I do like to use the tires in the curves. Even with the eventual flat spot caused by 10K miles the right to left transition is still stable and the tires never lost the feeling of confidence, even when taking them to the edge.
Now if they only had a little more sideways traction in the gravel and sand they would be the perfect tire.

+1. Love the REGULAR PR3's. I am slightly heavier than Harry (240+) and carry about the same weight. I am also getting even wear, however, I like to use the canyon on my way to work most days, so I get a chance to even out the wear.

Few more thousand miles and I'm 100% satisfied. Might not be as soft as the OEM for cornering... have a S1000RR on order for that!

M249Joe wrote:Few more thousand miles and I'm 100% satisfied. Might not be as soft as the OEM for cornering... have a S1000RR on order for that!

I think with an S1000RR, I would be sitting in jail right now. Also, have you checked insurance rates for those things? I could farkle my bike several times over dealing with those kind of rates.

angellr wrote:
I think with an S1000RR, I would be sitting in jail right now. Also, have you checked insurance rates for those things? I could farkle my bike several times over dealing with those kind of rates.

Yes, yes, and yes..... Still gonna be fun though.

angellr wrote:... Also, have you checked insurance rates for those things? I could farkle my bike several times over dealing with those kind of rates.

Superbike = Super Insurance Rate

ka5ysy wrote:

angellr wrote:... Also, have you checked insurance rates for those things? I could farkle my bike several times over dealing with those kind of rates.

Superbike = Super Insurance Rate

I had Farmers insurance until fairly recently. They consider the R1200R to be a "superbike" because it's over 100 HP. So apparently, to Farmers there is no difference between the R1200R and the S1000R.

They do have a point; it is a superbike. Super nice.

The one thing you never hear about PR3s is the effect they have on the rider following you

I followed a VFR Vtec with PR3s in France, in the rain and I can personally attest that the PR3 displaces all the road water, collects it into the sipes and then hurls it backwards at the guy behind.

So if the guy following you backs off when it starts raining, it's got nothing to do with your wet riding prowess

Another advantage of the PR3's it seems

I've just passed 10k km's on my PR3's with plenty of thread left, but while pondering if I should just get the same next time I began to wonder if anyone has any experience with the Metzeler Z8's on the R?

Woland wrote:Another advantage of the PR3's it seems

I've just passed 10k km's on my PR3's with plenty of thread left, but while pondering if I should just get the same next time I began to wonder if anyone has any experience with the Metzeler Z8's on the R?

that is the tire that is stock on my new r1200r and I can't find any fault with them.. I've only got 450km on the tires so far, but they're very good in rain or otherwise.

Woland wrote:Another advantage of the PR3's it seems

I've just passed 10k km's on my PR3's with plenty of thread left, but while pondering if I should just get the same next time I began to wonder if anyone has any experience with the Metzeler Z8's on the R?

Yes. I have Z8s on mine and I'm very impressed with their stability, grip and wet weather performance. I'd still like to try PR3s when the time comes though.