What are some good tires for the S2K that performs well in the rain and cold while not sacrificing performance when it's dry?

 

Howie,

I'm just curious. Is the word compromise in your vocabulary?

 

The answer is yes. Sigh... I feel sorry for your S2K. Driven by an idiot.

 

That's ok. I just keep thanking God that you don't own one. At least I can drive a stick and know the difference between Pole Position S02's and Honda OEM S02's.

 

Yes go drive your own stick and thank God that I don't have an S2K. Have fun.

 

Man all that was needed was a little smiley somewhere up there to avoid all this negativity! Hey you guys, make up and smile. Please?

 

Strike - Please drop the personal attacks.

Howey - to answer your question, the point Strike was trying to make is that tires that grip well in the dry are often very poor performers when it is wet, especially when it is cold.

Think of the extremes: a racing slick vs. specially designed rain tires, like the S02 Pole Position (and soon to be released improved S03). Racing slicks have no tread that helps evacuate water, S02 PPs have large V-shaped channels that direct water out from under the tire (as do our tires, but the void space is less). This means that racing slicks will hydroplane much sooner than treaded tires, specially designed rain tires in particular. As an example, the last local autocross in 2000 was held during some very heavy rain. It wasn't cold (this being S. Florida), but it was wet. Normally, cars on racing slicks vie for FTD (fastest time of the day), but on this day the fastest times were from cars with lots of tread. In fact the cars on racing slicks had the slowest times. Also, the S02 PP has specialBridgestone technology that improves wet weather performance and minimizes the degraded performance that occurs when tires wear. See http://www.tiresafety.com/tech/tech_intro.htm for more details. Lastly, many perfromance tires need to be warm to give the best grip. That is why our OEM tires don't perfom well when it is cold and wet, and are horrible in the snow. In fact, I bought a set of OEM tires from a board member who switched to a more appropriate tire for his region (NE USA). That works for me down her because I think the S02 OEM tire perfoms well under warm, wet conditions, at least until the tread is worn down.

Ironically, I think that the best tire for wet and cold conditions may be the S02 PP. Cheers.

 

Play nice, children.

 

Joshua,
Nice post and I am sure some learned from it. Howie this was a very good post in down to earth terms. If you use a search engine to do a search on 'tire safety' you will get more information than you every wanted on the subject.

 

Thanks. I understand that tires that grip well will not be as good as the dry. What I was trying to ask was what tires perform well in the wet while sacrificing as little performance on dry land as possible.

Strike always seems to have some problem with my posts. I don't know why. It's not about making up. He's not worth the time.