Pirelli Diablo Superbike Slicks, Which Compound ?

I’d say zero rear possibly hard front. But be prepared to wear a rear out in a day, easy!

@graeme4130 would probably have a good opinion.

 

Like bradders says, they won’t last long! Great tyres but I got fed up of em wearing out ! I switched to bridgstone VO2s couple of years ago, wouldn’t go back! Bob at FWR is the best,cheapest

 

sc1's front and rear
sc1 f sc2 r if you are easing in and not a racing god.

 

SC2? Bit hard for 30 deg heat isn’t it? Still better than the pretend pure;I slicks I guess

 

depends how good he is at keeping the heat in them....the SC0 is way too soft in my humble opinion...

interestingly Simon was initially using 'treaded' pirelli at portimao on his rsv, and the tyre man said not to use tyre warmers with them....

 

Zero is more a qualifier is it not? Be in the bin before you know it. Most use the tried and tested 2 rear and 1 front.
I use 2 front and back as I seem to V 1's at the front quickly.

 

I ran SC0 both part worn from wilf and new. I’d get a day on a regular trackday, low end fast group so not setting the world alight but no TC and 170hp will wear a grippy tyre pretty quick.
I tried an sc1 rear and tbh it didn’t last much longer, summers day on a non abrasive (ie normal!) track.
Fronts have never seems to matter!

I’m sure the superstock boys don’t run warmers either obviously an expert

 

i believe the non tyre warmer thing was more around the composition of the tyre...

 

Must have been a poor road tyre.

 

Wasn’t tyres r us was it...

 

Depends on who the tyre guy was because some of them talk utter bollocks. I would only ask someone I knew and trusted.
Andy has asked the question on here and has got numerous different answers so is no better off really.

 

Almeria is notoriously savage on tyres. And yes, you can easily do a rear in in one day. Expensive job if you're running Dunlops. I'd spend the 1st morning murdering whatever you've got on to start with, after lunch or whatever, stick some new rubber on.

 

You can go too hot, depends on the track and ambient/track temperature. I was at Brno last summer and it was fekin roasting! Was running KR108's. I was reading 19psi out the warmer (rear) and 27psi when I came in! Track temp was so high we were all skating about a bit

 

F*ck yeah!

 

It was the Pirelli guy that does the BSB ...I’ve forwarded the combined opinions from here for his reference...

 

May be same guy who told me hot weather means hard front/Soft rear and cold weather soft front/hard rear.

 

A couple of my mates who run road tyres on track have stopped using warmers now but they were struggling with wear at Portimao last September.
One of the other lads uses road tyres but runs them in warmers at 60 deg and gets really good wear but he's not the quickest.

 

I raced (yawn) on road tyres without warmers. Now, I use warmers on road tyres simply because it helps me to just go out first lap.