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2024 Motorcycle Sport Touring Tires Shootout: Final Results

We test tires because you just never know.  Bikes are different, riders are different, seasons are different and as we are finding out, tires are different.  Much, much different.  We test tires by attempting to control for everything- riding the same bikes, at the same time, with the same riders and same fuel loads following each other all season.  We even order the same coffee, all in the name of accuracy.  Sometimes the results are predictable and other times, as in this test, the results are shocking.

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Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs Shinko Verge 2X: Mid-Life Update

While all motorcycle tires are round and black, they are not the same. Even with technological advances one would think that modern sport touring tires are all very similar, but there are differences. A few years ago we here at Road Dirt Motorcycle Media started a quest to find those differences and pass that information on to you.

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Motorcycle Tire Spotlight: Shinko 016 Verge 2X

If you haven’t heard of Shinko Motorcycle Tires, I don’t blame you.  Shinko does not have the brand name recognition or racing pedigree of major manufacturers like Dunlop, Michelin, Pirelli or Bridgestone.  However, their rubber roots run deep having manufactured bicycle tires since the end of World War II, then purchasing motorcycle tire technology from Yokohama in 1998.  They claim to manufacture about 200,000 tires a month.

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Motorcycle Sport Touring Tire Shootout- Year 3

Even the journey of ten thousand miles must begin with the single turn of a wheel. This is how year 3 of Road Dirt’s Sport Touring Tire Shootout begins.
When tires are new, they are round and perfect, just as their designers intended, showcasing the technology and engineering their manufacturers have poured into their design profiles. We all love new tires because when they replace flat spotted rubber, our bike’s handling comes to life.

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