"The handling is rather entertaining and the bike feels like it's shed about 50kgs."

When I collected my Gixer Thou after the service I thought they had removed the steering damper, it tipped into the first roundabout very, very quickly, in fact it almost "slammed" into the first roundabout and I had to slam it back over the other way to exit. Hmmmm I thought, so I then decided to get them tyres *well and truly* scrubbed in, so I found a quiet car park and did a few enthusiastic figures of eight until I the tyres were worn right to the edges and yet they were still slippery.

I was sliding out of corners without trying. I rode home from the Fragfest last night (15/09/2001)  and the new tyres and slippery roads conspired to made it a cautious if somewhat entertaining ride [1].




This evening I decided to get the better of the tyres and selected a few *really* twisty lanes and canned the bastard mercilessly, after about 30 minutes the tyres were transformed from a slippery fish to a very sticky thing.

Initially I thought that I had made a big mistake [3], especially with the much increased speed of steering on a bike that already steers very quickly anyway. However, now they're scrubbed in they are brilliant. I took this one
bend rather hastily and had to crank the bike over a lot and got my pegs down and I was *really* hanging off, I even had to lift my nearly worn out knee sliders off the tarmac. Do those tyres stick, they feel like slicks.

Summary:
Road legal slicks.
Very, very quick steering.
They need a lot of scrubbing in.
The bike feels different [2]
Cornering grip is fantastic.
The bike feels like it's shed about 50kgs.

[1] For me anyhow.
[2] You think an R6 is twitchy
[3] I blame Champ