I did about 35 miles today on my new Conti 240 rear tire.
I installed the wide wheel and Conti tire in a effort to get better traction on the street, where I was tired of constantly lighting up the stock tire in 1st through 3rd gear when jumping on the throttle. From my past experience I knew that the Metzler, Avon etc. would probably not be any better than stock, but when I saw the Continental Race Attack tire was introduced and researched it (and Oliver spoke highly of it), I decided to buy the wide wheel and tire.
The first turn I took I could feel a pretty big difference. The steering was "heavier" feeling, the bike needs more force to lean it over. It does actually straiten up faster though when transitioning so i would not say that it's slower when "flicking", but it definitely takes more effort. To me this tire feels more secure when going through a corner than the stock one, although I did have one "squirrelly" moment when all the way over scraping the right hand peg. I think it was because I hit some gravel which is plentiful right now on all the roads.
As far as traction straight ahead goes, it hooks up MUCH better. The tire would not break loose the way the stock one does from a roll in first gear. I tried 5 times - each time it hooked and launched me forward with the front wheel first skipping then settling maybe a foot off the ground. Today it was around 65 degrees when I got out.....I can only expect this tire to hook even better during the summer.
So I feel (so far) like I definitely made the right decision, it hooks up great and the handling feels very good. It also looks great.
Mark

Glad you like it.

The 240 will always feel a bit different than a 200. Of all the 240s I believe the Conti is the most neutral one. I like carving canyon roads on it.

Nice imformative write up Mark Thank you for that Good luck with it and ride safe. Let me know next time you're taking that fatty over to he track Iwant to come and have a looky

Twin Daddy wrote:
Nice imformative write up Mark Thank you for that Good luck with it and ride safe. Let me know next time you're taking that fatty over to he track Iwant to come and have a looky

Will do.
Here is a picture of the stock tire and wheel next to the Wide ones.

Mark

Hey Mark
Looks like you have alot left on that stock tire. You must have been behaving. How many miles did you put on that tire. I have over 8000 miles on my original stock tire and I know that wasn't your original. Hey I know I ride like a puss!

I modified my shaft cover (no comments please) despite much good advice not to bother. I actually came up with a decent version although I F'd it up by not leaving well enough alone. The first picture is the part cut, the 2nd is a side view comparison after it was back together. I used a piece of inner tube to close the cut opening. It was good until I made another little adjustment and then decided to slather it with some black silicone gasket goop. The problem is that that stuff dries so soft it picks up anything thrown at it. So......wrong glue to use - otherwise a working solution. Really not worth the time though (unless there is snow on the ground like I had here).

Side View

Twin Daddy wrote:
Hey Mark
Looks like you have alot left on that stock tire. You must have been behaving. How many miles did you put on that tire. I have over 8000 miles on my original stock tire and I know that wasn't your original. Hey I know I ride like a puss!

Yeah it's new, the first one went 5600 miles.

I lost 50 lb since last season and Vmax runs totally different it hooked up better when i was 250lb.....I also changed from metzler back to bridgestone (the metzler didnt wear well at all)It did hook up fairly well though but i think ill let some air out of the tire....it should hook up better.I dont think im going to get the 240 i enjoy flicking Vmax around.I cringe when i feel it break loose though because its money down the tubes...LOL!!

I second that the 240 conti is one bad ass tire, with 1100 miles
so far and it has always done great!
the harder you use it the better it gets in the turns with high temps in the 80s so far the tire is working great, with both the conti`s front and rear the bike is well behaved leaned over and powers out of turns with new speed and gives good confidence, the Bridgestone tires worked nice for the stock tires but the conti`s look the part and hook where the brigstone tire was lacking...
this should get our 60 ft times down a little as you can leave really hard and it just wheelies instead of spinning thru the first 3 gears, you can spin it but you won`t find much that can hold the VMax torque with out being warmed up first,
this is the tire to get!!!!