If your riding style is 70% street and 30% dirt, you can be expected to buy what's called a 7030 tire.

But what does that really mean? And is that the right tire for your planned use?

Well, I highly doubt those ratios will ever deliver the best tire for your riding style

using those alone.

In fact, there's some other factors to consider that are far more likely to get you on your best

tire for your riding style and they have nothing to do with those ratios, they have nothing to do with

reviews or what your friends are riding.

Today I'm going to speak with continental tire in the U.S. to find

out how tread patterns are designed, whether they're done with artists or computers or maybe a mixture of both,

how the tire compound affects traction,

and why tire inflation may cause you to lose blocks off your tire and a bunch more other things.

I'm also going to get to test out my theory on why ratios, just like I I said are misleading to say the least.

Also coming up as David Peterson he's going to talk about his tire and beadbreaker which

I'm sure you've heard on this show before me mentioning at the start of it. He is a tire

changing fanatic and he's got some great insider tire tips for changing a tire

making it so it's easier to spoon on and spoon off. My name's Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We get a good one for you. Max BMW Motorcycles has been outfitting Adventure Riders since 2002.

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