BMW has chosen tyres from the Dunlop hypersport and sports touring ranges as original equipment fitments on its new R1300R roadster and R1300RS sports tourer, which debuted earlier this month. Dunlop RoadSmart IV and SportSmart Mk3 are available on various versions of both bikes.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has launched a new brand identity for its Avon Tyres range, one it says builds on the brand’s “proud history in the motorcycle world.” The rollout of this identity accompanies a “major industrial upgrade” for the European plant that manufactures Avon two-wheeler tyres. This facility is now equipped with five state of the art building machines and an all-new finishing line dedicated to the eye-catching whitewalls that characterise the Avon custom range.
Mitas has debuted its latest tyre for adventure bikes, the Enduro Trail-ADV 2. Initially available in two popular adventure sizes, 90/90-21 and 150/70-18, Enduro Trail-ADV 2 offers a “perfect blend of on-road performance and off-road capability” with a 70 on and 30 off-road tread design inspired by the Mitas Enduro Trail+.
Cambrian Tyres, the UK’s leading motorcycle tyre distributor, is pleased to announce a new partnership with hard-parts specialist Brandon Powersports to further strengthen the presence of the Kenda brand in the UK motorcycle market. In the initial phase of the partnership, Brandon Powersports will provide its trade customers with access to the full range of Kenda motorcycle and scooter tyres along with inner tubes, significantly enhancing the availability and visibility of Kenda products across the UK.
The new Mitas-branded Touring Force SP on-road tyre lineup will be available in April in four popular sport touring sizes. Additional sizes will be released throughout the year, expanding the range to a total of eight sizes.
This year’s FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC) begins during the Easter weekend. Bridgestone will continue its supply of Battlax tyres to competing teams, but instead of acting as sole tyre supplier to three teams as in 2024 and preceding years, in 2025 Bridgestone will exclusively supply five teams. The newcomers are the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team and Kawasaki Webike Trickstar.
Dunlop has announced new tyre option for riders in the in the Campionato Italiano Velocità (CIV). The exclusive tyre supplier to all classes in the Italian series said it is refining its track tyre technology to build on a successful debut season. Dunlop will offer a new softer rear compound in the Supersport 600NG category, which last year saw six different winners across the twelve races and featured grids of more than 40 bikes. Superbike riders get a new front tyre which has a new construction to improve braking stability. Dunlop is also offering a new rear compound for qualifying, helping riders to push for rapid lap times over one or two laps longer than with the previous tyre.
Motorcycling magazine Motorrad has published the first part of its spring 2025 tyre test, and this ends with an outcome that seems contradictory at first glance. In this product comparison, six testers scrutinised six different tyres for BMW GS motorcycles, using six identical BMW R 1300 GS bikes. So far, so good. But while each tester ultimately chose a different tyre as their personal favourite, the magazine did not announce six winners. Instead, Motorrad’s overall ratings ranged from ‘very good’ to ‘satisfactory’. How can this be?
MoT data indicates that there are just 227 Honda Gold Wing motorcycles on UK roads, which means one new Michelin tyre is a very specialised product indeed. The tyre maker is directly targeting the Gold Wing with a new model, the Michelin Road W GT. This is available in three dimensions suited to most Honda Gold Wing models in circulation: Front: 130/70 R 18 M/C 63H; rear: 180/60 R 16 M/C 74H; rear: 200/55 R 16 M/C 77H.
The latest generation of maxi scooters are more powerful, comfortable and safer – in short, more like motorcycles – than their predecessors. These qualities extend their range of use beyond city limits, meaning that maxi scooters need tyres which combine everyday usability with sporty performance. It seems Michelin can tick both boxes with the new Michelin Power Shift, its successor to the Pilot Road 4 SC and Pilot Power 3 SC lines. It is offering Power Shift in three sizes that cover most of the market: 120/70R15 56H (front), 160/60R15 67H (rear), and 120/70R17 58H (front and rear).
Dunlop’s new road-focused hypersport tyre, the SportSmart mk4, has won two separate comparative tests. Motorrad Europe’s largest motorcycle magazine, awarded the tyre the top ‘Very Good’ rating in the Sport category of its latest test, additionally making the magazine’s ‘Buying Recommendation Dry’ and ‘Buying Recommendation Wet’. PS Magazine, meanwhile praised the tyre for its grip, performance and quick warm-up on both wet and dry roads.
Bickers, a leading UK importer and distributor of motorcycles, scooters, ATVs, UTVs, and 4x4s and associated products, has re-branded itself as Bickers Powersports. This name change reportedly reflects the company’s continued expansion and commitment to serving the UK powersports trade.
British rider Jake Dixon (Boscoscuro) and Ángel Piqueras (KTM) set new record laps significantly faster in both Moto2 and Moto3 than those set in 2022 on Pirelli tyres at the weekend. Dixon sealed victory by sprinting from the second position on the grid, and achieving the new best race lap, with 1’41.639 on the seventh lap, almost 1.2 seconds faster than the record set by Celestino Vietti in 2022, and over eight-tenths faster than the previous all-time lap record. In Moto2, 18 out of 27 riders lapped under the former best race lap, and 11 of them even under the previous all-time lap record.
In the USA, 120 Dunlop GPR-300F tyres in size 110/70R17M/C 54H have been recalled due to a problem with the breaker edge. The tyres in question were produced in the Sumitomo Rubber Industries factory in Nagoya (1EU) during production week 3924, that is 29 September to 5 October 2025.
TyreSafe has issued motorcycle tyre safety guidance following a 20 per cent surge in new motorcycles registered in 2024. And what’s more, registrations in December 2024 were up 114 per cent on the previous year. In addition, 45,251 powered two wheelers up to 125cc / 11kW were sold in 2024 (prevalent in the 16-24 years old demographic) accounting for 39 per cent of the overall market meaning that riders are also likely to be less experienced in a variety of different conditions.
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