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- Front monogum duo and rear twin rubber duo
- New treads, with the addition of a secondary grooving
- The technique
- On the road
- Conclusion
Front monogum duo and rear twin rubber duo
New treads, with the addition of a secondary grooving
The technique
Like the A40, the T30 Evo, successor to the T30, was designed to improve its performance in precarious grip conditions. The front monogum and rear twin compound duo is marginally more efficient on dry ground, while the gain is spectacular (on paper) on wet ground..
The T30 Evo is the road tire par excellence of the range, located between the sportier S20s and the A40 rather intended for big trails.
New tread patterns, with the addition of a secondary grooving, improve water evacuation while offering a larger surface contact with the ground over its entire tread. While the front and rear profiles are retained, Bridgestone is also announcing the adoption of a new rubber compound saturated with silica to optimize grip in transient temperatures (rain, low temperature, first kilometers, etc.). In figures, this translates into a friction coefficient in the wet up 4% and braking distances shortened by 9%. Still in the rain, the T30 Evo is given as 9% faster on the manufacturer’s test circuit. For comparison, this would translate into a gain of 48 seconds on a lap of the Nurburgring North Loop with a reference time of 9 minutes all round….
Finally, the life of the T3O Evo is equivalent to that of its predecessor. Good news given that the latter had been particularly well rated on this point by the German Motorrad for the T30 during tests carried out in 2014..
In terms of dimensions, the new Sport GT from Bridgestone has been available since last February in 120/70 R 17 for the front and in 180/55 R 17 or 160/60 R 17 at the rear. According to Bridgestone, the T30 Evo will be sold at the same price as the T30 which remains in the catalog of the Japanese manufacturer.
On the road
The T30 Evo test program is quite similar to that of the A40 but with more portions at high speed to better understand the gain in stability. And the range of machines at our disposal is also impressive … Let us mention the Yamaha XJR 1300, XJ-6 and XJ-8, MT-07 and 09 as well as the Tracker and Tracer, Honda VFR 800, CBR 650 F and CB 650 F, Triumph 1050 Tiger Sport, BMW R 1200 R and F 800 GT and finally Kawasaki ER-6 F. In short, beautiful people with very heterogeneous sizes, power and geometries.
On the most road-going machines of the VFR 800 type, the T30 Evo does not transcend behavior and we find the same driving sensations as with the old T30, namely a benevolent neutrality, a focus on the progressive angle and a feeling of secure stability when stalled in the turn.
On roadsters with more modest power, it is more the driving comfort that shines through with good feedback from the front and traction that is impossible to fault. Even with a beastly machine like the MT-09, the traction is difficult to criticize and a few portions more wrinkled than a hundred-year-old have been swallowed at more than 170 km / h without sign of fidgeting. On the other hand, the Yamaha is not for all that transcended in sporty driving in the tortuous with a front axle always as light, even reluctant if one clings too much to its handlebars during muscular accelerations..
But where the difference with a competing pneumatic tire is the most obvious, it is on the MT-07. Compared to the Michelin PR3 originally mounted on an identical machine tested a few days later, the Bridgestone offers an added serenity noticeable when setting the angle and a hint of additional stability in the intermediate angles. The counterpart is a liveliness slightly behind the French tire on the handlebars of the Yamaha featherweight….
Conclusion
Flawless in the context of road use, the T30 Evo has also shown itself to its advantage in attack with a grip that has never been faulted and a good “reading” of the state of the asphalt. All machines combined, fans of very sporty driving will undoubtedly prefer a more efficient S20, but the T30 Evo never comes to limit the potential of a machine in this area. Like the A40, its main character traits are its neutrality in all phases of driving and an excellent compromise between liveliness and stability. It remains to test this Evo in the rain to judge the gains announced in this area….
Strong points
- Very balanced and neutral tires
- Trade-off stability / liveliness
- Motor skills
- General feedback
- Unchanged rate
Weak points
- No rain…
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I use the term super roadster wisely. A super-word ‘is a light machine is really typical: in short, it is a cross machine mounted in slick…
Certainly, the Dorso mimics this kind of bike, but we are far from it in geometry…
So, it’s a roadster, a super-roadster that is played, and with efficiency.
not too much agree…
hyper biker then
but super roadster is more like a Super Duke 1290, a Tuono 1100 or something extreme like that
I just tried the Shiver.
Nothing to say about the bike, it’s modern and I was more used to.
It brakes, it goes straight, it turns or your gaze goes…
There’s a nasty dashboard, electronic crutches and chaipasquoi modes that I don’t care.
But the engine is extremely cool. The low and mid-revs are full, and the noise is neat.
It rumbles when we open, and it backfires when we decelerate.
This engine suits me very, very well.
Nothing to do with an unreasonable fighter plane, in addition the price of the Shiver is also reasonable, it makes you think suddenly.
Comparing the T30 Evo with the PR3 doesn’t make sense. The T30 Evo should have been compared with the PR4. You might as well compare a PR3 with a BT20
In short, on my Pan 1300, after a BT20F train and a T30 train, I switched to PR4GT and … no regrets, the Michelin seems to me to be above the Bridgestone in terms of "softness" and grip on dry, wet or wet road.