Michelin Pilot Road 3 are here!!!!!!

[Wolfman]

Same here. Lots of talk on lots of other forums (ie. apparently the Z rating is wrong, they'll 'only' be W rated, and they'll 'surely' be better than PR2's) but nothing concrete. Even the January availability date is questionable (may only be January for Europe...)

Hopefully Michelin will spill the beans soon!

We can only hope...at least if they are available now in the USA, then we will get a reasonably intelligent review soon enough from WebBikeWorld!!!

:thumbup:

 

[MoeDog]

Those tires look bad ass, I guess getting a Screw on my tire was a Good thing ?. do you guys see any issues having a pilot road 2 on the front and pilot road 3 on the back?. I only had them for about 3 months or 4k miles. the front still looks like new.

 

[Def]

tread kind of reminds me of a star constellation

I thought I had seen that pattern before!

 

[2006_FZ6]

How do these compare to the Continental Road Attack 2?

 

[krid80]

No one can answer that yet. They aren't in use yet.

Sent from my HTC EVO 4G using tapatalk.

 

[novaks47]

A simple search revealed that these tires won't be out for a bit. Seems to be marketing buzz at play here. If you check out Revzilla, they are taking pre-orders, and are stating the tire will be released March 2011.

EDIT : Haha, I'm a dumbass. If I had actually clicked the original link, I would have already seen the whole pre-order thing. Nevermind mind my foolishness. LOL

 

[Norbert]

I got 24 THANKS for my post!
My personal record !! :BLAA:

 

[Sawblade]

I'm getting one of these for my front as soon as my bike is back together.

 

[412fz6]

Well, For my birthday I got a set of the PR3s :rockon: so once I get them on, and get to run them through some paces I will be sure to let you all know how they perform. I'm sure I will get a lot wet weather riding in this spring as I am going to ride full time this year to and from work, rain or shine. My wife rules.

 

[krid80]

Update? I am going to order a couple to keep in stock probably....

 

[Amorousnerdium]

I got my set of Pilot Road 3s in yesterday and were installed the same day. I'll take pics in the morning of how they look. Today I put close to 350 miles on them just cruising around.

I paid close to 700 dollars for them after 120 dollar overnight delivery charge. They feel VERY nice.

 

[krid80]

$700?!?!?! Oh man. Even at $580 before shipping, someone took advantage of you. Shop around!

 

[412fz6]

$700?!?!?! Oh man. Even at $580 before shipping, someone took advantage of you. Shop around!

Whoa!! yeah $700, thats crazy, mine were $290 or so shipped and put on for approx $60 (took them in one at a time one off the bike one on). I've only put about 70 miles, so I'm still braking them in, but they feel really solid. Once the temp goes back up I can put them through their paces on some real roads. I've just commuted with them for a couple of days and taken the long way home. They definitely look sweet I can wait to get all the slime off them.

 

[Amorousnerdium]

Yeah... There's only ONE bike store around here that installs tires... Roughly 450 for the tires, another 130 or so to mount then 120 for over night... Roughly 700... My butt hole still hurts... But my bike is happy... She told me so...

 

[Norbert]

you got robbed.
you can spend 20 minutes on this forum and learn how to do all that yourself....

 

[CdnMedic]

Well when the front axle is seized in to the bike you have no choice but to try and have the shop do it for you lol...

 

[Norbert]

Well when the front axle is seized in to the bike you have no choice but to try and have the shop do it for you lol...

whoops..didnt see that.......i guess he got a good deal then :thumbup:

 

[Amorousnerdium]

As promised, here they are:

And the front:

I put about 700-800 miles on them the past two days just playing around.

 

[wolfe1down]

Amorousnerdium - how are they out near the edges (ie. when leaning)? That looks like an aggressive set of water siphoning channels. Just wondering if they have affected you bikes handling?

Thanks,

 

[Amorousnerdium]

Amorousnerdium - how are they out near the edges (ie. when leaning)? That looks like an aggressive set of water siphoning channels. Just wondering if they have affected you bikes handling?

Thanks,

I hate to admit this, but since my wreck back in November I haven't had the heart to REALLY get down and into a lean...

I will say this, I opened the bike up ONCE yesterday afternoon on the interstate (I-110). The tires felt insanely good weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds.

Also, the day after I got them, the fog rolled in very heavy and the roads were really damp. I don't know if it was psychosomatic confidence bc of the tires, but the bike seemed to stick better to the road at lower speed turns (30 - 45) than it did previously.