Darkside tire

[traveler]

Hey guys , I have found an achellis 195/60/16 . Its on Tire Easy.com i really like the tread pattern. Does anyone have a reveiw of this tire or the company . http://s2.images.proboards.com/cool.gif

[VulcanE]

Traveler, if your talking about the Achilles Platinum, it does have a pretty good UTOG rating (420-AA-A) but one of the things I look for in a CT for a MC, is that it must have round shoulders, I can't tell real well from their photo, but the shoulders look pretty square on that one.

[dkdixie]

Also, please be aware that IMO tire-easy leaves a lot to be desired as far as a company I would deal with. I ordered a SP5000 from them last spring. The tire they shipped was over 4 YEARS OLD.
They refused to reimburse me for return shipping. Needless to say I won't be purchasing anything from them again.

[traveler]

I went back and looked at some pics of tire again , it is pretty square . thanks for heads up on web site also. I just liked the directional pattern of tread . I think it was going to be to wide any way.

[skeeter]

Also, please be aware that IMO tire-easy leaves a lot to be desired as far as a company I would deal with. I ordered a SP5000 from them last spring. The tire they shipped was over 4 YEARS OLD.
They refused to reimburse me for return shipping. Needless to say I won't be purchasing anything from them again.





so, they at least took the tire back?

[VulcanE]

I just liked the directional pattern of tread . I think it was going to be to wide any way.


Traveler, I know what you mean about the uni-directional tread pattern, That is one of the prime reasons I chose the GYTT. There are a lot of folks running a 195 tire on a 1500, and if you look at the size 195/55-16 (only 1" smaller in diameter than a stock 1500 rear tire), there are a lot more options with the uni-directional tread pattern. One tire I really like is the General G-MAX AS-03, another is the Kumho Ecsta SPT XRP. Check out this site, there are several pages of choices in that size.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/TireSearchResults.jsp?width=195%2F&ratio=55&diameter=16

[mikeyger]

I bought 2 cts from tire rack Both time the tire was here in 3 days I used a sp 5000 dunlope 195-60-16 on the nomad. Like stated more options with the 195-55-60

[dkdixie]

Also, please be aware that IMO tire-easy leaves a lot to be desired as far as a company I would deal with. I ordered a SP5000 from them last spring. The tire they shipped was over 4 YEARS OLD.
They refused to reimburse me for return shipping. Needless to say I won't be purchasing anything from them again.





so, they at least took the tire back?





Yea, they took it back...only cost me freight both ways, approx 45.00 experience dealing with tire-easy.

Forgot to mention, purchased Bridgestone EL-402 from Tire Rack, was here in 3 days. Tire was just over 4 months old!!

Of the three car tires I've had, this Bridgestone is, by far, the best!

[waterman]

The tire I run and like is one that Tire Rack doesn't carry. Continental Vanco 2 195/65-16. Slightly larger than stock. Corrects the speedo to around 5%.