califblue
02-09-2015, 01:33 PM
For those of you running stock 15" wheels I finally had an opportunity to really flog the tires on my favorite Motorcycle Road...HWY 2 in the Angles Crest Highway
I left my house at 6:am this past Saturday morning so traffic was light and I was under the cover of darkness on my 36 miles freeway drive to base of this road so the tires we all warmed up ( averaged 80MPH on the way there )
anyway here is map of the road that is 29 miles to my Breakfast stop Newcomb's Ranch ( roughly half way as the road goes to Wrightwood)
http://www.mapquest.com/#dd55324e2f98446141aa3339 go up to the top of the map and look for squiggly line Highway 2 just north of down town LA
mostly 3rd gear between 60- 90 MPH and few bursts to 100+MPH
the tires performed flawlessly ( but they only have 200 miles on them) but I did notice the front end shimmy at 55 mph under hard breaking...I did lower Lemforder arms w/750i bushings ( along w/ sach kit &m-tech sways etc) when I bought her w/64k back in 2003. SHe now has 120 k so I am guessing it is time for upper arms or is there something else I should check?
they handle every bit as good as my Traction TA's which I got 35K out of them
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/380970150217-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
I left my house at 6:am this past Saturday morning so traffic was light and I was under the cover of darkness on my 36 miles freeway drive to base of this road so the tires we all warmed up ( averaged 80MPH on the way there )
anyway here is map of the road that is 29 miles to my Breakfast stop Newcomb's Ranch ( roughly half way as the road goes to Wrightwood)
http://www.mapquest.com/#dd55324e2f98446141aa3339 go up to the top of the map and look for squiggly line Highway 2 just north of down town LA
mostly 3rd gear between 60- 90 MPH and few bursts to 100+MPH
the tires performed flawlessly ( but they only have 200 miles on them) but I did notice the front end shimmy at 55 mph under hard breaking...I did lower Lemforder arms w/750i bushings ( along w/ sach kit &m-tech sways etc) when I bought her w/64k back in 2003. SHe now has 120 k so I am guessing it is time for upper arms or is there something else I should check?
they handle every bit as good as my Traction TA's which I got 35K out of them
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/380970150217-0-1/s-l1000.jpg