First impressions are essential, and Continental claims its ContiRoadAttack 4 bike tire has TractionSkin know-how, which has been round for some time and doesn’t require any break-in interval. Upon supply, the floor of the tires felt as if they’d a number of miles on them—there was no hint of any coating or launch compound.
I instantly bolted to the onramp of a freeway one mile away and threw the Final Motorcycling BMW R 1250 RS Venture Bike into the tight, 270-degree, skid pad-like entrance at full lean and on the throttle—nothing adversarial occurred. Grip was very excessive, and the subsequent factor I knew was the necessity to decelerate to freeway speeds.
Heat-up time was quick, grip was mighty, and there have been no indicators of slippage. That is precisely what I need from a tire for a performance-oriented sport-touring bike—that, and lengthy life.
Final week’s 900-mile journey to Dying Valley Nationwide Park ticked all of the bins associated to experience high quality and efficiency testing, together with high and low temperatures, moist and soiled roads, excessive canyon and highways speeds, onerous braking, and all the things in between, excluding precise rain.
The Continental ContiRoadAttack 4 replaces the sooner 3 version with a brand new tread sample, compound, and resins, plus a full silica entrance tire claimed to enhance moist climate efficiency and chilly climate grip in slippery circumstances.
Continental additionally says the 4 supplies extra suggestions, improved agility, and resists any tendency to face up throughout cornering than its processor. Additionally claimed is that this compound has been optimized to be used with cornering-aware ABS. Whereas I didn’t put a knee down in frog-throttling rain, the CRA 4 tires are excellent for my sport-touring mission.
Continental has loads of know-how within the ContiRoadAttack 4. As an illustration, MultiGrip (a single-compound tire that works like a twin compound due to precision curing) and BlackChili Compounds (a multipurpose mix of polymers and rubber).
Continental claims its GripLimitFeedback characteristic provides early suggestions when the tire reaches its restrict at excessive lean angles due to a mixture of carcass development, compound choice, and tread design. I’m undecided I exactly skilled this as I don’t typically back-in or slide the RS into turns. Nonetheless, the tires really feel stable with a excessive sense of stability even close to the sting of the envelope.
The CRA4 is a impartial dealing with tire that’s simply guided. It doesn’t fall into turns as some tires with totally different profiles can do, neither is it reluctant to recover from on its edge. When it does, the sting will not be interrupted by sipes extending to the tread shoulder, so that you’re successfully driving on the sting of a slick tire at full lean.
We may very well be working tires designed for sport driving on the UM BMW R 1250 RS Venture Bike, however this time we wished to evaluate the mileage that Continental guarantees, which I normally get from tires of this sort. I’m not involved, neither is my road driving type such that I really feel a lot loss in grip versus a pure-sport/track-day tire. I typically take pleasure in about 5500 miles from a set of sport-touring tires, no matter model.
I can’t consider a cause why I might not mount Continental ContiRoadAttack 4 tires on virtually any sport-touring, bare roadster, or sportbike that’s not concerned in monitor work. The 1500 miles I’ve placed on them have been wonderful, and I’m properly happy.
Continental ContiRoadAttack 4 Sizes and Costs
Entrance
Rear
- 160/60: $348
- 180/55: $377
- 190/50: $395
- 190/55: $405
Be aware: All tires are for 17-inch rims
