IF YOU search for 'Best tyres for a BMW 1200GS' in Google, you'll get thousands of answers with just about no-one agreeing on anything. Try the same for any other adventure-styled motorcycle and the results are similar.
However, look through those results and you'll see a few tyres tend to shine through. One of those tyres is Michelin's Anakeee II another is Metzeler's Tourance EXP. They're both firmly established in the minds of owners of adventure-style motorcycles.
Michelin have stated that their three aims for the new Anakee III are: to provide better mileage, increased safety and more riding pleasure. At least one of those aims has a small chance of being quantified, the other two will be debated on internet forums until the cows come home.
Michelin have set the Anakee 3 up with a bias of 90% road and 10% off-road. If Adventure-style motorcycle owners were honest, they'd admit that 99.9% of their time is spent on road, not off-road. Michelin are wise to this and that's reflecting in the bias of the new Anakee IIIs. However for years, manufacturers have offered their tyres with off-road looks because looks sell and adventure motorcycle owners like the image that they cross borders on their rugged machine when in reality, the toughest border most cross is getting permission from their other half to go out for a spin on a Sunday morning.
The Anakee III has taken over from the Anakee II. Gone is the chunky tread, replaced by a tyre that has a similar profile to a road tyre but with an aggressive thread pattern. Michelin call these new lateral grooves 'a tread within a tread' and you can see why. They're designed to move water, shed mud and gravel and on a microscopic level, spead out to find grip where, according to Michelin, the previous Anakee may have struggled.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/product-features/michelin-anakee-3-review/22593.html#ixzz2th1XclcS
IF YOU search for 'Best tyres for a BMW 1200GS' in Google, you'll get thousands of answers with just about no-one agreeing on anything. Try the same for any other adventure-styled motorcycle and the results are similar.
However, look through those results and you'll see a few tyres tend to shine through. One of those tyres is Michelin's Anakeee II another is Metzeler's Tourance EXP. They're both firmly established in the minds of owners of adventure-style motorcycles.
Michelin have stated that their three aims for the new Anakee III are: to provide better mileage, increased safety and more riding pleasure. At least one of those aims has a small chance of being quantified, the other two will be debated on internet forums until the cows come home.
Michelin have set the Anakee 3 up with a bias of 90% road and 10% off-road. If Adventure-style motorcycle owners were honest, they'd admit that 99.9% of their time is spent on road, not off-road. Michelin are wise to this and that's reflecting in the bias of the new Anakee IIIs. However for years, manufacturers have offered their tyres with off-road looks because looks sell and adventure motorcycle owners like the image that they cross borders on their rugged machine when in reality, the toughest border most cross is getting permission from their other half to go out for a spin on a Sunday morning.
The Anakee III has taken over from the Anakee II. Gone is the chunky tread, replaced by a tyre that has a similar profile to a road tyre but with an aggressive thread pattern. Michelin call these new lateral grooves 'a tread within a tread' and you can see why. They're designed to move water, shed mud and gravel and on a microscopic level, spead out to find grip where, according to Michelin, the previous Anakee may have struggled.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/product-features/michelin-anakee-3-review/22593.html#ixzz2th1XclcS
