Mitas E-07+ Adventure Tires | Gear Review
Mitas E-07+ ADV tires.
Adventure tires, like the motorcycles they’re designed for, are a compromise. Most adventure bikes come with 90/10 tires intended for 90-percent street riding and 10-percent off-road riding. Typically 90/10 tires grip well on dry or wet paved surfaces and hold up well to high mileage, but their high land-to-sea ratio (larger blocks of rubber with smaller grooves) limit traction in the dirt.
Many adventure riders who venture off-road, especially technical trails with steep climbs and descents, are willing to sacrifice some on-road performance for off-road capability. Mitas, a tire manufacturer based in the Czech Republic, offers a 50/50 bias-ply tubeless adventure tire called the E-07, as well as a modified version called the E-07+ for heavy, high-displacement bikes. The E-07+ has large, irregularly shaped tread blocks in a chevron pattern with wide spaces between them to allow water, dirt, rocks and mud to be displaced and the edges of the blocks to dig in for traction off-road.
We fitted a set of E-07+ tires to our KTM 1290 Super Adventure S test bike and rode more than 1,000 miles on a variety of surfaces–mostly pavement of variable quality, but also on hard-packed dirt and the dry sand and gravel that’s common here in Southern California. With as much as 132 horsepower and 81 lb-ft of torque sent to its rear wheel, the big KTM places high demands on tires.
When cruising on the freeway the E-07+ tires are smooth and reasonably quie...
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