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Hi, interesting thread on the Anakee, I have them on my Africa twin and are very happy... later in the year I'll be heading off to Jordan, 90% road use ... but a little off road / gravel roads... how did your tyres hold up off road, I understand it was limited ?? did you reduce the pressure ?
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As I understand it a lot of tyre wear is from wheelspin during acceleration. Not smoke pouring off the tyres wheelspin but minute movement of the tyre over the surface. It makes sense that when your loaded up there is less wheelspin as you need more power to break traction. Carrying a pillion too means that you're probably not as agressive with the throttle either so the outcome is better mileage. High speed wrecks tyres too. It seems for once when you need good mileage from a tyre things conspire in your favour.
Someone will probably tell me that this is just bo***x but it makes sense to me.
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its also to do with the torque your bike makes that also contributed to the wheelspin.
But tyre wear is down to alot of things
torque
power
speed
accelration
milage
(burnouts)
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excellent tyre
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Originally Posted by goodwoodweirdo
Hi, interesting thread on the Anakee, I have them on my Africa twin and are very happy... later in the year I'll be heading off to Jordan, 90% road use ... but a little off road / gravel roads... how did your tyres hold up off road, I understand it was limited ?? did you reduce the pressure ?
Comments welcome, thanks Matt
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i too like the anakee it's a great tyre on the road wet/dry and giving superb mileage! i ride an AT and their superb on there going round the twisties,no-one can stick with me! people come up behind me sometimes thinking boring AT on their hooligan bike and i whip their arse!!  for a laugh.
goodwoodweirdo- i took mine into morocco on anakee's doing some gravel track's and they were great and the gravel did'nt even rip up the tyre! it was superb and i was amazed how it went. did get into some deepish stuff later along one trail (not by choice) and they were absolutely s**t! they were'nt made for this though. personally though if i was doing your trip 90% on road i'd use them providing the other 10% is just rough track and gravel and not mud/grass.
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for road-use i find the anakee the best, as mentioned before, it really does have excellent grip in the dry, as well as the wet. i have them fitted to a 650gsd, and live in the uk, so lots of wet weather around, and they really stick to the road. i now have ridden around 6500 miles on them, and i still have around 30% life left on the rear, and a bit more on the front. I would say though that for off-road riding they are not suited at all.
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