Deadbird

It was addressed. its under the "Maybe, maybe, maybe" section. I was pointing out there are many things going on other than the tires, one of those is certainly the suspension. As for your street bike. don't get to far off into the deep end trying to setup the suspension for a street bike, without first finding a good tire. if you are wanting more performance, the first thing you need to do is wear out the original tires and get new higher performance tires. That should solve your problem. Thanks for the reply. I will get some new tires and go from there...)

Doing the New Years Day ride here in New Jersey again this year. Anyone from this forum going to make it???

With 1 rider going 15 seconds slower, tires and the bike being equal, the variable would be the RIDER. Its not the tire, not the bike, its the rider and his level of experience. I would highly question the slower riders interpretation of how he fell. If he claimed it was from grip, yet another rider is going 15 seconds faster and he did not fall, then it can't be from lack of grip, because the faster rider just proved there was plenty of grip. There are other factors in play that the rider cannot observe, but is attributing the problem to "Grip". maybe the tires were cold maybe he holds the handlebars to tight maybe he makes many steering changes mid corner maybe he chopped the throttle maybe he quickly opened the throttle maybe maybe maybe Hey Guys, First I wanted to say you guys have the beginings of a great site here. Good luck with it. One thing I see that wasn't addressed here is suspension set up. I just purchased a new/left over 07 Aprilia RSV 1000 Factory. Coming from a BMW K1200R. I've used Pilot Power CT2 since they came out, Pilot Power's before that. The Ape comes with Pirelli's (not sure which ones). I've been trying to set up the suspension but with the cold temp's it's hard to get anything zeroed in. My problem is I can't tell if it's the tires or the suspension, but I can't feel comfortable on this bike. My thought is to get rid of these tires, and put on tire's that I'm used to and see if I can set up the suspension from there. Does that sound like a good idea, or an I just wasting money, and I should set it up with the tires that came stock? There are a lot of diffentances between the two bikes also. Push button suspension, shaft drive, gearing, verses Ohlins, chain drive, 150 pounds lighter, 40 less hp... Which is a good thing until I get it set up. Any advise??? Oh, I ride on the street mostly. But do push the envolope on back roads, and can, and do drag things at will on the BMW. But the Ape's front seems to want to tuck in when I try to lay it down a little lower not close to touching down..