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08-14-2008, 03:31 AM
Dunlop Sportmax D211GP DOT-Race Tire
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Dunlop's latest DOT-legal racing rubber. (http://www.sportrider.com/features/146_0806_dunlop_sportmax_dot_race_tire)Our track day at Buttonwillow coincided with Dunlop's release of its new DOT-race tire, the Sportmax D211GP, and we were able to snag a set of the new tires for each bike. Like the Sportmax D209GP it replaces, the 211 utilizes the company's N-Tec construction, and the front and rear tires incorporate continuously wound aramid-fiber tread belts around their circumferences as well as N-Tec steel beads. New are dual compounds, the front tire with three zones of rubber and the rear with seven. Both tires have a harder underlying base rubber compound that spans the entire tread width and extends to the tire's surface in the center of the tread's profile. On the front tire's sides a softer compound is laid over the top of the base compound, resulting in the three zones-the company's first multicompound front tire for production-based racing. The rear tire has additional small, triangular sections of the base compound extending through to the surface in the center of each of the two side sections, adding support to the softer rubber and splitting the tread into seven sections. The new Sportmax also features a next-generation tread pattern that continues the company's evolution of the cosecant-curve pattern.
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Dunlop's latest DOT-legal racing rubber. (http://www.sportrider.com/features/146_0806_dunlop_sportmax_dot_race_tire)Our track day at Buttonwillow coincided with Dunlop's release of its new DOT-race tire, the Sportmax D211GP, and we were able to snag a set of the new tires for each bike. Like the Sportmax D209GP it replaces, the 211 utilizes the company's N-Tec construction, and the front and rear tires incorporate continuously wound aramid-fiber tread belts around their circumferences as well as N-Tec steel beads. New are dual compounds, the front tire with three zones of rubber and the rear with seven. Both tires have a harder underlying base rubber compound that spans the entire tread width and extends to the tire's surface in the center of the tread's profile. On the front tire's sides a softer compound is laid over the top of the base compound, resulting in the three zones-the company's first multicompound front tire for production-based racing. The rear tire has additional small, triangular sections of the base compound extending through to the surface in the center of each of the two side sections, adding support to the softer rubber and splitting the tread into seven sections. The new Sportmax also features a next-generation tread pattern that continues the company's evolution of the cosecant-curve pattern.
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