Supercorsa in the rain?

How do these work in the rain? It looks like it might be raining next Tuesday on my MTC trackday at Willow Springs. I'm used to riding Diablo Corsa's on my ZX-6R, but I'm buying an FZR400 that has Supercorsa's on it tomorrow and want to ride it at my trackday.

Would it be better to mount something more street oriented like the Pilot Power (I give that as an example because my tire choices are kind of limited by the 160 rear)

I would actually say Pilot Roads. Balk if you want, but they have way better watter shedding ability than Powers do.

I wouldn't run Rennsports, or Supercorsas on a wet track.

if you can get ahold of diablo corsas use them.

BD

I have Diablo Corsa's on my ZX-6R but they don't make a rear that fits zn FZR400. Hmmm... I think I'm either going to a) pray for no rain, b) buy some Diablo's for the FZR, or c) screw it and run my ZX-6R with the Diablo Corsa's.

if you use any kind of DOT race tire on the track, if you notice the last 1" to 1 1/4"'s of the tire is an actual slick. meaning there are no venting treads for water. if you look at a standerd tire Vs a rain tire there are huge differances.

the only tires i would run in the rain would be rain tires.. i tried to get some before this last PTT event to no availe, it seemed to be an odd request for someone in california for some reason

heres a differance in tires from pirelli. in order from slicks, road to wet weather.

Slicks both front and back being typical design:

rear:


heres the supercorsa, notice the last 1" of tire. thats the slick portion i was mentioning.

rear:


heres the diablo corsa, notice this time you have a venting clear to the egde of the tire (almost, its acutally 1/4" shy of complete coverage), but it still isnt really designed for hard wet riding.

rear:


and heres the wet weather slick, the reaosn i use "slick" is because this tire aswell as other "rain weather race tires" come in multiple compounds just like slicks do. also notice how much more elaborate the venting for water is in this design.

rear:


front:



i only used pirelli tires to convey the idea behind rain tires. im not advocating any specific brand.

I have used SuperCorsa's at a Laguna Seca track day and was pleasantly surprised. It took about 2 laps to warm up then they hooked up. I wasn't fully leaned over though...I was about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch to the edge. Just stay away from standing water as it may hydroplane.

My 2 cents.

I had some SC1/SC2 during the rainy ZZ trackday at TH earlier this year and it was, er... interesting.

The track being wet and the bike (RC51) being friggin' huge, made for interesting... slides. They will grip, but if you really want to go faster, get some rain tyres. www.crs.com will have them, unless your FZR still has a 18" rear.

Manu ® said:

www.crs.com will have them, unless your FZR still has a 18" rear.

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The council of residential specialists has tires for sale now?

ROCK ON!!!

Village_Idiot said:

The council of residential specialists has tires for sale now?

ROCK ON!!!

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I'm not worried about going really fast on Tuesday. This will be my very first time riding this bike, and if it's wet I'm going to be taking it extremely easy! I'm definitely not going to go out and buy rain tires just for this 1 trackday. I just want to be able to get some seat time on it. Hopefully the rain won't show up and this whole thread will have been for nothing

your good dude...be smooth on the throttle, wieght the outside peg, stay upright as much as possible, and have fun!

Village_Idiot said:

The council of residential specialists has tires for sale now?

ROCK ON!!!

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Er... no but then again, they do have a decent looking girl on their home page

I think I meant: http://www.crstires.com (which is down)

in the 18" size, Bridgestone makes both a DOT that isn't as slick as a supercorsa


150/60R18

and a full Wet too

150/635R18