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180/55ZR17 (73W) (TL)

Manufacturer: METZELER

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ROADTEC™ 02

The Super-Sport-Touring tyre that doubles up your ride

Riding pleasure, high-performance and safety in a wide range of temperatures and asphalt conditions
2-tyres-in-one, super-sport or sport-touring according to your riding style
Adaptive Tread Design
Dual-Compound rear
Full-silica compounds

Key Features and Benefits:

Adaptive Tread Pattern technology: This cutting-edge design alters the tyre's behaviour to match your riding style. It provides the stability and grip of a Sport-Touring tyre when you're cruising or in wet conditions, and the agility and precision of a Supersport tyre during more spirited, dry rides. The result is a tyre that adapts to your needs, whether you're seeking comfort or performance.
Dual-compound rear tyres and 100% silica-based compounds: These materials ensure a perfect balance of high-speed stability and grip on wet surfaces. You can ride confidently in various conditions, assured of safety and control.
Uniform land/sea ratio in tread pattern: Compared to the ROADTEC 01 SE, the ROADTEC 02 increases the footprint and consistency at different lean angles, offering a smoother and more precise ride with enhanced stability and grip on every turn.
Reduced groove presence for acoustic comfort: The smart design minimises road noise, leading to a quieter and more enjoyable ride. This feature enhances your riding experience by reducing distractions and allowing you to focus on the journey.
Same adaptive tread pattern on both axles: This ensures consistent behaviour and performance from both front and rear tyres, leading to a harmonised ride where both tyres work together for optimal performance in any condition.
Innovative Groove Closure Mechanism: The Metzeler Roadtec 02 features a unique groove closure system that activates during sporty riding. As you lean into corners and apply more lateral thrust, the grooves partially close, increasing the tyre's contact patch with the road. This results in better traction and stability during high-speed manoeuvres, offering you the confidence to push your limits safely.
Enhanced Wet Weather Performance: The tyre's 100% silica-based compound excels in wet conditions, providing exceptional chemical grip on damp surfaces. This feature ensures reliable performance in unpredictable weather, giving you the peace of mind to ride confidently, knowing your tyre can handle the challenges of wet roads with ease.

Super Sport or Sport Touring according to your riding style ... 2 tyres in ONE

When riding softly the long grooves under the footprint grant an optimal water evacuation and proper tread mobility that contribute to quick warm-up, contact-patch conformability and hence better comfort and grip ... the optimal behaviour of a Sport Tourting tyre.

When riding sporty and the tyre is engaged at a higher pace, the walls of the narrow portion of the grooves join together increasing tread pattern stability. This entrusts the compound to deliver all the grip potential, improves trajectory precision especially when leaning and deteminates a Super Sport class tyre behaviour.

Roadtec 02 improves the riding pleasure and ease of handling ...

The footprint surface is very smooth thanks to reduced quanity of grooves over the tread pattern, thus increasing the quality and ease of handling.

Less grooves translates to less interruptions of the surface, bringing less vibrations, less noise and a more uniform transition from upright to leaning.

Roadtec 02 improves GRIP in DRY conditions ...

The greater rate of rubber in contact with the ground enables the footprint area to generate more grip.

Moreover, the Adaptive Tread Pattern design increases the tread compactness and reactivity when riding faster.

Rear sizes feature a dual compound layout, with a soft shoulder stripe that increases grip when leaning.

This soft stripe covers approximately 80% of the tyre width, equally split between the two sides.

Roadtec 02 improves GRIP in WET conditions ...

The new generation of full-silica compounds of both the fronts and rears improve the chemical adhesion to wet roads.

The use of similar compounds on the front and rear shoulders provides an homogeneous contact feeling when leaning.

The NEW Roadtec 02 is capable of proficient supersport and sport touring riding, depending on how you use it.

Metzeler’s reasoning behind this claim is the grooves that close together on the last third of either side of the tyre during high-force/cornering-load riding, effectively turning the sport touring tyre into a near slick with an extra six percent of uncut tyre on the ground.

Called Dynatread, this adaptive tread design works the other way when cornering loads are not as high, expanding the grooves to give you six per cent more water-draining capability and maintaining its original sport touring-specific ethos.

Like so many of Metzeler’s street tyres, the Roadtec 02 runs a full silica compound on both the front and rear and the rear runs Metzeler’s Cap&Base dual compound structure with a redesigned harder centre for higher mileage and more high-speed stability.

The tyres are created using 43 per cent bio-based and recycled material and Metzeler also claims higher hysteresis in all conditions. What is hysteresis you ask? Hysteresis is the tyre’s rolling resistance rating relative to the amount of energy lost through heat when it flexes under load.

More resistance/hysteresis means the tyre will heat up faster and bite into the tarmac harder, thus giving you more confidence when you crank the bike over on its side.

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