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With a sport touring tire grip better grip will occur with a little longer warm up.
I've run "hypersport" type tires for years on the roads here in SoCal. Here we can go through more radical temperature change because of climate change from desert to mountains as well as temp changed just from elevation change alone.
I've had a sticky tire give way when hammering them out of a turn on hot roads. The bike your using is going to have an effect on tire experience.
Tarmac temps are very high descending into the desert from the mountains so you might give extra thought in choice of tire and for what reason. Adjust riding accordingly. The sport touring tire I'm using now has impressed me for it's grip. I consider myself a fairly seasoned experienced rider. Sticky tires can get what they call oily when pushed for longer period at high temps on hot road surface. A sport touring tire might excel in that same condition for grip. I've only got 2000 miles on the T-30 but so far it's been good to me showing very little or no wear.
I've run "hypersport" type tires for years on the roads here in SoCal. Here we can go through more radical temperature change because of climate change from desert to mountains as well as temp changed just from elevation change alone.
I've had a sticky tire give way when hammering them out of a turn on hot roads. The bike your using is going to have an effect on tire experience.
Tarmac temps are very high descending into the desert from the mountains so you might give extra thought in choice of tire and for what reason. Adjust riding accordingly. The sport touring tire I'm using now has impressed me for it's grip. I consider myself a fairly seasoned experienced rider. Sticky tires can get what they call oily when pushed for longer period at high temps on hot road surface. A sport touring tire might excel in that same condition for grip. I've only got 2000 miles on the T-30 but so far it's been good to me showing very little or no wear.