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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2019, 09:16:43 AM »
One of the biggest tyre companies involved with advertising  ;)

If the road surface is shite and the rider is shite, it doesn't matter what tyre you are using it will be shit  ;D ;D ;D

I was at silverstone some years ago and i asked a team why they had gone for that type of tyre ? The reply was, we get them for free and no one else has offered us free tyres for this season.

A CST tyre will squirm all over the road on a 750 as, it is too soft for that weight on the rear.

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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2019, 10:05:24 AM »
Wooo hit a raw nerve there have I Trig. Wasn't aware that the TT course was a rubbish surface and I have been riding since I was 16. Better tell Silvers to stop selling them for the 750. But your right they are not suitable for the bigger bikes at all, silly soft tread pattern and bendy side walls. This is exactly what I'm talking about, Cheng shin make tyres in that size for that application and they are crap. So why would you trust a company like that. All Chinese stuff is rubbish so why risk your life for a few quid when you don't have to. People constantly bang on about cheap foreign pattern parts are not going on my bike so why are these rubbish tyres getting fitted.

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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2019, 10:20:39 AM »
You are fitting cheap Chinese parts to your bike though Roy. Many original parts in Honda bags are now made in China, Tiwan and the Philippines, it actually says it on the bags. But that is not the point. I would not fit Cheng Shin Tyres to a CB750/4 and I wouldn't advise anyone else to either.

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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2019, 10:22:58 AM »
Going to leave it there. People can decide for themselves. We're heading for a never back down situation here.

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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2019, 10:24:48 AM »
Agree, its like the 'which oil' debate. In the meantime I'm going to get 4 new tyres fitted to my Freelander....I wonder if Land Rover sell Cheng Shins, always worth an ask 😀😀😀😀😀
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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2019, 10:28:49 AM »
Agree, its like the 'which oil' debate. In the meantime I'm going to get 4 new tyres fitted to my Freelander....I wonder if Land Rover sell Cheng Shins, always worth an ask 😀😀😀😀😀
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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2019, 10:33:33 AM »
Going to leave it there. People can decide for themselves. We're heading for a never back down situation here.

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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2019, 11:38:59 AM »
Julie, best 4 x 4 tyres for mostly road with a bit of off road i found are Goodriche All Terrain A/T. Cost a bit more but on my L200 lasting about 40,000 a set when rotated.

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« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2019, 11:46:46 AM »
Yea, I always have good tyres on the car Bryan and have used Goodrich in the past many times. I have the standard Land Rover Goodyear tyres fitted to this car, always last very, very well by swapping them around. No difference between on road or off road around here, mud everywhere all the time what with the Farmers working the fields 24/7, 365 😊
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« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2019, 03:38:02 PM »
Well that was interesting. Its just that the 350f has come with what looks to be a virtually new or new pair of Cheng Shins on and I am a little loath to bin them. I will try them as its not difficult to change them if I don't get on with them.

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« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2019, 04:28:41 PM »
Good idea Moorey. I personally wouldn't want one on the back wheel but that's because I would wear it out too quickly. At least you had a balanced response to the question, 50% like them, 50% loathe them 😀😀😁😁
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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2019, 06:03:32 PM »
Julie Don't bother with Bridgstone Teflons I had them on my Ford Ranger. They lasted well, 70'000 miles mostly road use when I wasn't falling off it.  ::)

 
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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2019, 08:39:42 PM »
Haha, cheng shin are one of the biggest tyre manufacturers in the world.... you can bet they know how to make tyres.....  personally i like bridgestones (japanese company) or “jap crap” as all the british bikers used to say 40 years ago...  ;D

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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2019, 10:11:16 AM »
Going back a bit my gs125 came with bridgestones, probably original to the bike. Horrid, horrid tyres. My ntv650 came with Bridgestone battlax or whatever they are called - I hated those tyres too, especially after fitting maxxis tyres transformed the bikes handling. Some of the best tyres combos I have ever run on a bike have been budget. I'm not 100% sure but I think my kh125 had chen shin tyres when that was last on the road, before that it had Vee rubber tyres. It was one of the best handling bikes I ever had on either set of very budget tyres. My 500/4 I always ran on Avons because that's what it came with and it worked. Only criticism I would make is the rears do not last, unless you buy them, leave them in a dark cool shed for a few years before fitting, the difference is I could turn a sticky fresh Avon rear tyre into a bald one in about 2000 - 3000 miles but managed nearer 10k off a new old stock tyre. Sm mk2, they stick like the proverbial to a blanket, right to the bitter end. Once crossed the beacon beacons road in a blizzard with my BMW r80/7 ex plod bike, found on getting home the rear had gone from a bit thin on the tread - still legal,  to canvas but still it ran like it was on rails. My mate used to mock the fact the tyres on that bike featured 'chicken bands' of an extreme scale though there was a good reason for it, the 500/4 had stabilisers ( sidecar ) and when the tread started to look thin, it went over to the BMW to get a bit of extra life out of the edges of the tyre. Thrashed among b roads that stretched tyre life a good old bit.   
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Re: Cheng Shin Tyres
« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2019, 10:49:07 AM »
Funny you should say that, Mrs Hairy had Maxxis tyres on her 650 shitehawk,, sorry, Nighthawk, they were really good in all weathers. Looked up the manufacturers website, and they are made by Cheng Shin tyre company!

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