I see, and lol @ brand loyalty. I'm rarely a brand hater (except apple, EFF apple :Flip: ) but I'll never be a brand loyal person. I'll buy from whoever has the best product (at the quality/feature level I'm looking for) for the best price!!i meant the $30 as more of a brand loyalty thing. i still think the PR3s are the best tires on the market right now for the way i ride. i would never take the FZt the track, its just not that kind of bike. also i would feel too compelled to push myself just a little too hard and i feel that a cheap track bike with fairings would be a smarter alternative. in which case it will get slicks not an ST tire.
Interesting, I'll have to see what ends up coming up cheaper come time to switch. I wonder how far these battleaxes will take me.I don't ride fast enough to really push a modern tire to it's limits so I'll leave those comments to the experts. What I am good at though is riding a lot of miles. So at the end of the day, the price and mileage is what matters to me.
I love Michelin tires (of all kinds, bicycle, bike, car) but the PR3's wore out too quickly for my tastes. My set of PR3's were bald (centre zigzag line was gone) by 18k km, a disappointment when I had two sets of PR2's before them that lasted 22-23k km each. The replacement Z8's are at 17k km's and look like they've got another 4-5k km's in them. Grip as far as I can tell is very similar between the two.
Assuming there isn't a PR4 in the spring, I'll likely be getting another set of Z8's when these wear out.
PS, Z8's are cheaper around here than pretty much anything comparable. If I remember right, the Z8's were about $40-50 cheaper than PR3's when I bought them in the spring.