Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Dunlop has been rolling along nicely on the solid reputation of its Sportmax Q2 since 2009, when the track-day-focused radial made its debut. I’ve always regarded the Q2 as a working man’s sportbike tire, an excellent choice for riders who value a mix of performance and durability over outright maximum dry cornering grip. The Q2’s [...]
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Dunlop Tires Press Release: Dunlop proudly introduces the new Sportmax® Q3, the next-generation successor to the Sportmax® Q2®. The Sportmax Q3 delivers next-generation sportbike tire performance by incorporating Dunlop’s new Carbon Fiber Technology (CFT), and it also represents an outstanding value, which makes it a winner twice over. “Our Sportmax Q2 tire just recently took [...]
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Dunlop Press Release: Dunlop’s new, second-generation American Elite tires deliver more mileage for greater all-around performance. Designed with Dunlop’s MT Multi-Tread technology, which provides a long-wearing center compound with lateral grip compounds on each edge, this second-generation American Elite helps provide Harley touring riders with more mileage to go along with the increased grip and [...]
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Miller Motorsports Park Press Release: The Yamaha Champions Riding School, based at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, is pleased to announce that it has renewed multi-year sponsorship agreements with Yamaha Motor Corporation USA and Dunlop Tire. Yamaha has been the title sponsor of the school since its inception in 2009, and has not only [...]
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Dunlop Press Release: Dunlop is pleased to announce that in 2013 the company will once again support club racers throughout the United States and Canada by posting contingency payouts. This program will apply throughout a wide variety of racing classes conducted by 20 popular sanctioning organizations. As the official tire of the AMA Pro Road [...]
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“We’re a little bit sorry for being a pain in the ass,” said Claudio Domenicali, Ducati’s General Manager—but not sorry enough to change his mind. When we invited Ducati to participate in this superbike comparison test, we specified that the machines in each of our two price classes would all be fitted with the same [...]
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There is no sweeter sight, we can tell you, than that of a moving van filled to the roof with the latest in track-ready rubber pulling up to your trackday (especially when the two guys making the delivery plan to stay and change tires for you). As you can imagine, we started the slugfest at [...]
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Ride for Kids Press Release: Ride for Kids® events in Knoxville and Kansas City combined to raise $101,155 for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation® (PBTF) on July 29. Knoxville rides for worthy cause Knoxville, Tenn., hosted its 12th Ride for Kids® on July 29, and the event didn’t disappoint the 175 participants. The group raised [...]
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Sport-touring tires are a unique engineering challenge because by design—or at least in concept—they must be nearly everything to almost everyone. Nowhere was this more evident than at the launch for the new Dunlop Sportmax Roadsmart II, held in early December in Westlake Village, California. Press motorcycles fitted with the replacement for the original Roadsmart [...]
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I bought JD Beach a big, juicy steak at a nice restaurant in Salt Lake City on Monday night. I figured he could use some cheering up after crashing out of fourth place with just three laps remaining in the AMA Pro American SuperBike race at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. Between bites, the [...]
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