Thanks for your feedback & taking my post for what it was .... Waayyy back I put TOYO Proxes T 1 r's in 185/50-15 tires on my RT .... Yes, they caused fitment issues with the front fenders and brackets, but I fixed that ..... They were the STICKIEST tires I have ever had on any Spyder ...... annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd the NANNY did not like them at all .... the VSS would trip way more often than it ever did ..... the reason for that was that I could easily Exceed the lateral "G" forces that Nanny would tolerate ..... so I have cautioned others who are seeking tires with better traction .... frankly it's a waste of time .... The Nanny decides and there's no easy (or known way) to get around it ..... Mike :thumbup:
:agree: - altho maybe with a little caveat...
With the Kendas,
they are the limiting factor on how hard you can ride/push your Spyder into the corners etc, and they
DO somewhat restrict anyone who tries to explore the limits of the Spyder's chassis/suspension (which is arguably not
all that much greater tho!

) Anyone can happily ride around
under the limits of those OEM tires all year round without any issues and never see/feel the Nanny do anything...

:yawn: Orrrr, if you want to push things juuust a bit harder, you can learn (fairly quickly for most) how far you can push those tires beyond that, like 'just' spinning the rear tire at the lights for a bit when you take off; 'just' hanging the tail a bit thru the corners; 'just' getting a bit of front wheel slide as you push hard/fast thru the twisties; &/or 'just' pushing into all the other handling characteristics that are largely caused when the limitations of the tires start other handling issues that trigger the Nanny where she will eventually gently correct things & straighten you out/slow you down with the odd flash of the VSS or some other symbol on the dash; and by riding 'just' up to that level, you can even ride your Spyder
pretty hard that way until the OEM tires wear out (which won't take you very long :banghead: ). Once
ANYTHING ELSE exceeds the Nanny's 'Critical Safety' limits (which are generally
significantly higher than the limits of the OEM tires and still
somewhat higher than the next level of 'gentle reminder' outlined above...

) by doing things like taking dangerously aggressive evasive action; carrying significantly excess speed into a tight curve; suddenly hydroplaning in the toad-strangling down-pour that just dumped onto you out of the blue; or even doing something like hitting a curb, a deer, or some other obstacle &/or maybe getting partially airborne over an unseen hump... it's
ONLY THEN that the
FULL FORCE of the Nanny steps in & drags you down PDQ! :shocked:
However, if you go ahead and fit substantially stickier tires than the OEM excuses, then the
TIRES will no longer be anything of a limiting factor on how hard you can ride, so you don't ever get that earlier level of Nanny Warning, cos the tires simply work better and just don't cause any of those earlier/lesser slips & slides etc... You can go straight from the '
ride gently all year with nary an issue' type stuff right up to the '
Oh S**t' :yikes: level of Full-On Nanny intervention &/or slap down to protect you from your own stupidity!
BUT, that level is fairly substantially higher than the earlier level where she
gently keeps you safe - so the reality is that you truly
ARE riding a lot harder than you ever did on the Kendas, possibly even harder than you could on any of the Wallmart Specials types you might buy instead of full-on premium handling/stickies; but once you do get them, because the Premium/fully sticky tires aren't going to be the limiting factor in any way anymore, you won't ever get any of that earlier warning stuff from the Nanny, you'll jump straight past the lower level of Nanny intervention and straight into the full-on intervention/Slap Down whenever you are riding the razor's edge!! :shocked:
So
YES, if you really are pushing the limits of what the Spyder can do, that Nanny intervention will happen waaayy more often than you ever saw it happen while you were running lesser tires, cos the tires forced you to behave within their limitations to a large extent and then the Nanny stepped in at the next level if you ever got beyond the limits of handling that the lesser tires effectively imposed. But once you are beyond all that and on the Premium/fully sticky tires
AND you're pushing the limits, the Nanny steps in whenever necessary, and if she does, then once again usually of necessity, she steps in
HARD! :lecturef_smilie: