Someone posted sometime back about the tread on the dunlops sucking when confronted with a grooved road. We were driving on a road that had recently been milled/scarified prior to an asphalt overlay. I can tell you that when my sportster front tire hit the grooves it was a shock. I am going with the metzers when my front tire wears out. I did not notice the back wagging it's tail.

 

Keep yer eyes high...relax and ride Grasshopper...

 

I hit a spot yesterday,looked like a bike had driven on the pavement when it was wet.Big groove,long too.Kinda hard to pull out of it.

 

Grooved pavement annoys me... Never got used to it for some reason. As far as steel bridges go, I grew up riding in New England where there was an abundance of those surfaces. I learned to hit the grating on a little angle and to do ashallow andcontinuous"S" pattern. Takes all the excitement out of the things.

Ever get caught in center-of-the-streetrailroad/trolley track that runs parallel oralmost parallel with the road? I've seenmany atwo-wheeler go down getting caught in those. Very common back east, usually in the old sections of towns. Now seeing them more commonly in cities with trolleys. They're a realpig if you don't have time to maneuvertocross them at a more perpendicular angle.

 

Do some dirt riding. Grooves, uneven pavement, and construction zones will give you no further problem.

 

Metzelers (M880's in my case) cured the shimmy blues instantly. Ride is like night and day from the stock Dunflops on freeway grooves.

Primo