(2016) 200+ Treadwear Autocross Street Tire Thread

[ATL BRZ]

Originally Posted by xwd

Are you on RRAX? There is a member there, JTilus, who works for Maxxis and has been involved with the VR-1. He mentioned on 2/15 the first shipment was due into port within a few days so they should be in retailers very soon, I haven't seen any in stock anywhere yet though.

I believe some well known autocrossers already have some for testing.

No, but I'll check it out, thanks.

Originally Posted by ka-t_240

I know there are some physically in the US, I have seen some pics from a friend who is a Sale Rep for Maxxis.

Maxxis seem to be much more interested in promoting their bicycle and off-road tires than their sports car tires. I always find that odd.

[ka-t_240]

Originally Posted by ATL BRZ

Maxxis seem to be much more interested in promoting their bicycle and off-road tires than their sports car tires. I always find that odd.

I think that could be in relation to who their sales reps car, they have made the rc-1, but not much else recently(until now). I know Justin has a huge pasion for the pefromance car world. So, we can only hope.

[Cole]

Just bought a set of RE71R's for this coming year. Will be a mix of "DD" (really, only weekends) and auto x. Have I made a huge mistake?

[DocWalt]

Originally Posted by Cole

Just bought a set of RE71R's for this coming year. Will be a mix of "DD" (really, only weekends) and auto x. Have I made a huge mistake?

No.

[Locust]

Originally Posted by Cole

Just bought a set of RE71R's for this coming year. Will be a mix of "DD" (really, only weekends) and auto x. Have I made a huge mistake?

Nope. Anything new coming out needs to be a decent step up from prior iterations of those brands if they want to compete with the RE71Rs. As far as I know they're still top coming into this season.

[Cole]

Originally Posted by Locust

Nope. Anything new coming out needs to be a decent step up from prior iterations of those brands if they want to compete with the RE71Rs. As far as I know they're still top coming into this season.

Part of the worry is due to tread wear. I'd like these to last at least 15000km, but that probably won't happen. Oh well! Got them for around 700USD taxes in and installed, which is a bit of a deal, I guess.

[DocWalt]

15000km will be tough, towards the end of that you'll likely pretty close to the wear bars if you autocross often.

[Locust]

Originally Posted by Cole

Part of the worry is due to tread wear. I'd like these to last at least 15000km, but that probably won't happen. Oh well! Got them for around 700USD taxes in and installed, which is a bit of a deal, I guess.

You can't have it both ways though. Like if you want *decent* autocross tires that will last you a long time I'd tell you to get Star Specs but they're not going to give you the competitive edge that the Bridgestones will.

[strat61caster]

Seems like most sticky tires heat cycle out before the tread is gone whereas the RE71R's run out of tread before, or much nearer their heat cycling limit than what we've seen in the past.

If you chuck tires out because the grip is gone, you'll probably be happy with the new 'stones as they'll last just as long if not longer than you're used to with reports of 200+ good runs on them vs other compounds that are done by 100. If you run them until the tread is gone you'll probably be disappointed as that point will come relatively sooner vs say the Direzza's which mine still have plenty of tread left at 15k miles but the grip was gone ages ago.

[Locust]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

Seems like most sticky tires heat cycle out before the tread is gone whereas the RE71R's run out of tread before, or much nearer their heat cycling limit than what we've seen in the past.

If you chuck tires out because the grip is gone, you'll probably be happy with the new 'stones as they'll last just as long if not longer than you're used to with reports of 200+ good runs on them vs other compounds that are done by 100. If you run them until the tread is gone you'll probably be disappointed as that point will come relatively sooner vs say the Direzza's which mine still have plenty of tread left at 15k miles but the grip was gone ages ago.

^^^ He's far better at explaining it than I am. Listen to this guy.

[Cole]

@strat61caster and @Locust cheers m8's. Part of the reason I got these was because of the price point. I'll see how these fare, and then decide if it's worth it to buy them again, in favour of something else that may last longer. Even considered the MPSS, solely because of the warranty on them

[CatDaddysBBQ]

Originally Posted by Cole

Just bought a set of RE71R's for this coming year. Will be a mix of "DD" (really, only weekends) and auto x. Have I made a huge mistake?

That depends on your expectations on wear/mileage you intend to get out of them. If your expectations are 30k miles, you made a mistake.

If you want to love the tires and are ok when they are toast in a year or so, you chose wisely.

[Cole]

Originally Posted by CatDaddysBBQ

That depends on your expectations on wear/mileage you intend to get out of them. If your expectations are 30k miles, you made a mistake.

If you want to love the tires and are ok when they are toast in a year or so, you chose wisely.

If I can get a year... wait, we talking calendar year, or a Canadian summer? If calendar year, then I can get 2 Canadian summers and I'll be thrilled. Really, anything more than a summer would be greaaaaaaaat

[Silverspeed]

Originally Posted by Cole

Just bought a set of RE71R's for this coming year. Will be a mix of "DD" (really, only weekends) and auto x. Have I made a huge mistake?

Maybe....