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I have noticed lately that the GTS has seemed a little......squirrely i guess.

I was checking the tire pressure since I haven't done so since we have been up into the 80's and 90's during the day and I noticed that when I had the tire replaced (thanks Vespa Roadhazard) that I have a Michelin Pilot City on the rear now and the stock Sava on the front.

Could this be the cause of my high speed unpleasantness???
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What was the tire pressure?
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I have been running the same tire combination on my LX with no ill-effects that I've noticed.
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same here
I have the same configuration on my GTS and although I can tell a little difference like you are saying (squirlyness) with the handling, I think it is solely due to the new Pilot as opposed to the Sava up front affecting it.

It may be because I was used to how the Sava handled.
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Re: two different tires?
elmonchichi wrote:
I have noticed lately that the GTS has seemed a little......squirrely i guess.

I was checking the tire pressure since I haven't done so since we have been up into the 80's and 90's during the day and I noticed that when I had the tire replaced (thanks Vespa Roadhazard) that I have a Michelin Pilot City on the rear now and the stock Sava on the front.

Could this be the cause of my high speed unpleasantness???
I'm running the stock Pirelli on my front and skippy continental on the back of my GT. As soon as I changed the back, I immediately noticed a little bit of a difference...not squirrelly, per se, just as slight change in handling, but not enough to be really bothersome.
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yeah...I dropped both tiresby 3 psi at it improved, they were a little high.
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I have the 'city pilot' on front and a stock Sava on the rear.

The bike seems to handle fine.

The Sava's do everything well but grooved hiway.

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