We got an opportunity to test ride the Eurogrip Tyres at Kari Motor Speedway on a variety of different bikes. These motorcycles included the Harley Davidson Street Rod, Benelli 600i, Kawasaki Ninja 650, Kawasaki Versys 650, Bajaj Dominar 400, KTM Duke 390, and a few other smaller capacity motorcycles. The Protorq Extremes were on the Duke 390, Bajaj Dominar 400, and a few others. On the other hand, the Roadhound Tyres were on the Street Rod, Benelli, and the Kawasakis.
To know how these tyres performed, watch the full video and let us know which your pick would be!
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To know how these tyres performed, watch the full video and let us know which your pick would be!
#EuroGripTyres #RoadHound #ProtorqExtreme
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00:00The only point of contact between vehicle and road.
00:03Now this is something that is looked beyond, people don't give it that much importance.
00:07However, we are seeing manufacturers come in and release some pretty good tyres for the Indian market.
00:14Welcome to DriveSpark, I am Vedant Johari and today we are at Karim Motor Speedways,
00:18probably the best place in India to test out tyres, a very technical track.
00:23Now, Eurogrip Tyres has launched their Protox and their Roadhounds last year
00:30and we did get to test them out at that point.
00:33However, today we had a masterclass with Vakayama-san and Vittorio Iannuzzo,
00:38who is an Italian WSBK rider, to basically show us how to get the most out of these tyres
00:44and what these tyres are actually capable for.
00:46Well, around me, as you can see, we have a Harley-Davidson Street Rod, we have a Benelli 600i,
00:52we also have a Bajaj Dominar.
00:53Now, you might be wondering, this is a huge range of motorcycles that we have.
00:57However, that's exactly why we are here today, to test out these tyres on different sorts of motorcycles.
01:03Now, out of these three, the most track-oriented one is the Benelli 600i.
01:08This is shored with the Eurogrip Roadhound tyres.
01:10Now, it was super, super grippy on track.
01:14It's not a complete performance-packed motorcycle, it's made for the city and with slight performance riding.
01:20We rode it on a Benelli, we rode it on the Versys 650, we also rode it on the Ninja 650 and it was amazing.
01:28We did feel a slight slippage from the rear wheel because it's not a pure track-spec tyre,
01:33however, it provided ample amount of grip and substantial grip for what we require.
01:39Now, riding it around Khari, you are braking a lot, you are leaning a lot and you are quite hard on throttle around corners.
01:47And very, very few times did we actually feel our rear wheel lose control.
01:52Now, also we rode the Roadhound tyres on the Harley-Davidson.
01:55So, as you guys know, the Harley-Davidson Street Trial is really not made for the track, right?
01:59It's made for our everyday weekend excursions, it's made for our long trips and it's just made for chilling and cruising, having a good time.
02:06However, we did have a good time on track with the Roadhounds.
02:10This bike was phenomenal to ride, the tyres are super grippy, super easy to initiate from left to right and it's just wonderful to ride.
02:21Now, these tyres are extremely lightweight, not only did we ride it on track, Eurogrip also set up an obstacle course for us where they put out cones,
02:30so we had to slalom through it and we did it on all the motorcycles and even on the Harley, though it's a heavy bike, it's a longer motorcycle,
02:38the tyres are just perfectly designed to go to the left, to the right and just transition between each side.
02:46And now, coming to the Protorcs, the Protorc Extremes are the performance-oriented,
02:54we rode it on the Dominar, we rode it on the Duke 390 and it was wonderful.
02:59These Protorc tyres really have immense potential.
03:03This isn't only coming from me, this is also coming from Wakayama-san and Vittorio Iannuzo.
03:09Let me tell you a little bit when I was riding the Duke 390.
03:12So, as you know, the Duke is already a very powerful motorcycle, it's already an aggressive motorcycle
03:18and with these tyres on, you can push that bike to even further limits.
03:23So, the Duke 390, yeah, in spite of the slide bouncing around from the rear wheel, it would still grip each and every time,
03:30it wasn't like when it bounced, I felt uncomfortable that the wheel would slip out, would completely wash away,
03:36it just stuck.
03:37Each and every time I felt it lose traction, it would get back the traction and give us that confidence to go harder on the throttle.
03:44So, all in all, that was our Eurogrip Masterclass at the Karimotor Speedway,
03:49an absolute joy of a day, super fun day, super adrenaline-filled day and a lot, and a lot of smell of petrol,
03:58something I truly love.
04:00I hope you guys enjoyed this video, don't forget to like, comment and subscribe.
04:04My name is Vedant Johari, signing out.