ShinkoSR241 Trials Tire (3.00-17 45P)

Best tire on my 40 years driving motorcycles

These tires do everything well but nothing excellent. Pavement, hard pack, and rock, they do really well at. Loose dirt, grass, snow, not bad. Mud and wet grass are pretty bad. The tires have a tendency to pack up with mud. I don’t like riding in mud anyways.

These tires will not fit the stock talaria unless you run a bigger chain and/or sprocket. But once you do that it will fit in the rear.

Shinko 241 is a gummy trials pattern tread that sticks to pavement and gets great traction in the dirt. If trials riders use this pattern, you probably are not going to outride it. This is all the knob you'll need on the gutless CT. The 3.00 inch will just clear the front fender for street use. For off-road, use the 2.75 inch in front if you're not willing to use fender risers or do minor mods to the fender. Excellent tires but don't expect super long tread life.

Tires look good and are relatively smooth on road, however they are too smooth off road. If you ride in anything other than packed wet dirt or grass the traction is sub par. They will have you white knuckling in sand and praying to god if you come up on mud before you have time to slow down. I have had to drag my bike out of some spots since they simply refuse to grab sometimes. Good on the street though and will get you around nicely on dirt roads as well, just don’t plan on any serious off-roading with these tires.

I use these on my 1971 CB100 Honda with very satisfactory results. They are soft enough for great traction but not too soft so as to make for short life span. I expect to get many years of service from these tires.

The tires were a perfect fit and arrived in a timely manner.Thank you!

Restoring a 1969 Bridgestone 100 TMX trail bike, could not find exact replacement for the bike but these should look good on the bike. Not installed yet.