Dunlop Elite 4 Tires | Review
Dunlop Elite 4 motorcycle tires.
According to Dunlop, the Elite 4 is for riders who like to cover miles. Lots of miles. The E4 is designed to cover as much as 15,000-18,000 miles on everything from open highway to twisting back roads, in fair weather or foul.
And, with sizes that range from 15- to 21-inch diameters and a mix of radial and bias-ply designs, they?re made to fit just about any tourer, cruiser or standard out there, new or older.
Dunlop claims this latest iteration of the Elite series provides longer wear, excellent cornering stability and outstanding wet weather grip?the kind of overall performance the traveling rider is looking for.
I set out to challenge those claims by fitting a fresh set of E4s to my Indian Chieftain (previously fitted with Elite 3s). I gave the tires a workout on a mix of high-speed Interstates, stop-and-go traffic, sweeping back roads and a few jaunts down patched-pavement farm roads. I rode in temperatures from 32 to 80 degrees. The 850-pound, high-torque Indian really puts a set of tires to the test when pushed through corners. Tires designed for high mileage often disappoint in the twisties, but the E4s were tremendously stable and provided excellent grip, even when powering hard out of corners at a good tilt.
Dunlop?s Multi-Tread (MT) rear tire surely contributes to that performance, thanks to a special lateral-grip compound on the shoulders of the tire adjacent to the long-wearing compound in the middle. The transition across compou...
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