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    Where are you racers getting them for the best price?

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    My guess not to many are using slicks but if they are they are getting them at the track, but I'm not sure?
    I think Pirelli's are $370 or something like that.

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    I was running a slick/DOT combo on my Motard and it was $1 less for the rear slick than the DOT I was using Dunlops at $280 a set at the track, mounted and balanced in less that 10 minutes

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    $280 is a good price...probably more for a 180/120 combo. I was considering them for trackdays, but I'm going back and forth on just getting a race DOT...maybe even the new Dunlop Qualifier. I just haven't heard many user reviews.

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    I run front + rear slicks on my fizzer4--bought them for like $150.for the set at NHIS!!!!


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    dunlops chatter like a half naked hooker on a cold winter night!

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    Originally posted by Rye
    $280 is a good price...probably more for a 180/120 combo. I was considering them for trackdays, but I'm going back and forth on just getting a race DOT...maybe even the new Dunlop Qualifier. I just haven't heard many user reviews.
    That's not the case with Dunlop race tires, the 180 combo is the common size so they were $260 a set of the 208GP at the track last year, I was paying about $280 for a 150 combo because they are not a common size..or at least that's what Steve at the Dunlop garage told me

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    Slicks are more then the 208 GP tires.

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    Originally posted by Kip
    Slicks are more then the 208 GP tires.
    not always, dunlop has been unloading the 16.5" slicks for $220 a set.

    The savings alone made a set of rims affordable.

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    What is the price of a set of 17" slicks. No one on this forum uses 16.5" tires.

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    About $340.

    My point was the 16.5" are so cheap that buying a set of 16.5" rims makes sense sometimes.

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    Speaking of 16.5" rims at a track like Loudon did you notice a difference from them to the stock rims? I know they are lighter and all but at loudon is seems like most of the corners are stop and go corners where turning the bike from side to side isn't a real problem.

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    Slicks

    Originally posted by Kip
    Speaking of 16.5" rims at a track like Loudon did you notice a difference from them to the stock rims? I know they are lighter and all but at loudon is seems like most of the corners are stop and go corners where turning the bike from side to side isn't a real problem.
    without a doubt.

    any reduction in unsprung weight allows the suspension to work better--its not just about direction changes.

    you also gain better acceleration (minor) and better braking as well.

    and while lighter rims do all of the above, 16.5" are not about weight loss but greater contact patch and suspension setup.


    the tires external dimensions are the same as a 17" but since it has a slight smaller inside diameter, the sidewall is larger which is an extra bit of dampening to reduce chatter.

    a lot more sizes as well as compound AND carcass options as well.

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    Interesting. So a 16.5" tire is about the same diameter as a 17" tire?

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    Originally posted by Kip
    Interesting. So a 16.5" tire is about the same diameter as a 17" tire?
    For Dunlop, yes.

    And not 'about', identical.

    We did a lot of measuring, especially last year when I ran 16.5"s in SBK, GP, and GT and the stock 17's in SS. The diameter's were exactly the same so there was no changes needed for geometry or gearing when swapping between the two.

    The 17" DOTs had the same numbers as well.

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