Metzeler has provided further details about the new Roadtec 02 range that it announced at the start of this year. It presents this successor to the Metzeler Roadtec 01 as “two tyres in one, thanks to innovative DynaTread technology, which adapts the behaviour from sport touring to supersport.”
The Metzeler brand describes the Roadtec 02 as a “perfect mix of technology and sustainability” that integrates the most brand’s recent technological innovations. The results in a product that is “redefining the benchmark” for the sport touring segment.
Roadtec 02 is the first tyre to use DynaTread, a patented adaptive tread design technology that accommodates both sport touring and supersport riding styles. Metzeler comments that it almost needed to create a new category of tyre, super sport touring.
More than 43% bio & recycled materials
Ticking the sustainability box, Metzeler reports that it made Roadtec 02 with more than 43 per cent bio-based and recycled materials, as certified by a third party, Bureau Veritas. “The use of this type of materials also offers excellent results from a performance point of view,” Metzeler adds.
The brand aims this latest generation motorcycle tyre at anyone who uses sport touring, naked, crossover, adventure and Supersport machines and who is looking for a tyre with a sportier appearance and performance than traditionally offered by sport touring tyres, without sacrificing good mileage and safety on wet and dry surfaces.
DynaTread in detail
DynaTread is Metzeler’s new patented technology for an adaptive tread design capable of varying the tyre’s behaviour to accommodate different riding styles and conditions. “In other words, in a single tyre you have the possibility of combining different riding styles, from sport touring to supersport, and Roadtec 02 is absolutely the first tyre to exploit this innovative technology,” comments Metzeler.
When working with a more touring-oriented riding style or in wet conditions, the long tread grooves facilitate water drainage. Flexibility within the tread compound also ensures a fast warm-up time, good comfort and grip – as Metzeler comments, these are “precisely the properties and behaviour that characterise a very good sport touring tyre.”
With a sportier driving style, typically on dry roads, greater load transfers and lateral thrusts created by higher lean angles generate considerable pressure on the tyre, causing some of the tread grooves to close. This increases the tread band’s compactness and stability and results in greater support and more direct feedback for the rider to make the most of the compound’s grip qualities, improving riding precision and modifying the tyre’s behaviour to become closer to that of a supersport tyre.
The front and rear tyres feature the same tread pattern to guarantee identical adaptive behaviour on both axles, as well as improved acoustic comfort.
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