What’s the longest-lasting trackday tyre?

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You might have heard of the rider who burnt through their motorcycle’s tyres in a session and the one who’s on their eighth trackday on the same set of tyres.

The truth is, we all wear tyres differently and we won’t all get the same amount of laps out of the same tyre.

Generally speaking, you ought to be able to get a couple of trackdays out of a set of track-focused tyres. If you’re getting through them in one trackday, you might be able to improve your set-up or riding style to get more from the tyres, without necessarily sacrificing your lap times.

However there are lots of factors that affect your tyre wear.

Factors that affect your tyre wear:

Your pace
The track surface
The conditions
The tyre’s pressure
Your throttle control
Whether or not you run tyre warmers
Whether or not you keep your tyre warmers on all day or not
Your suspension settings
Your corner entry speed
Your traction control settings
The tyre size
Your wheel alignment
The bike you ride
The rider’s weight
Your body position
Your corner exit technique

As you can see, there are a lot of variables when it comes to tyre wear.

The biggest causes of premature tyre wear?

We think the factors that you should focus on, to improve your tyre wear are as follows:

Setting the correct tyre pressures
Well-set-up suspension
Carrying more corner entry speed, therefore increasing your minimum corner speed, which ties in to..
…not whacking the throttle open and relying on the traction control to sort it out and help you make up the time you lost in the corner

It’s fairly easy to sort out the first two issues. We admit, the last two aren’t so easy.

That said, some tyres do naturally last longer than others.

Here at Two Tyres, we’ve raced to a decent level, we regularly do trackdays and we talk to hundreds of riders a year about their track tyres. We never stop learning, but we feel like we’ve got a bit of relevant knowledge to share.

If you want a set of tyres to last more than a couple of trackdays, here are some suggestions that we think naturally last longer than the average:

Long-lasting motorcycle trackday tyres

Sports

Continental SportAttack 4

Trackday Treaded:

Dunlop Sportsmart TT

Dunlop D213GP Pro

Track-only Slick

Bridgestone V02

Michelin Power Performance Slick