New to ES2

Mark,

i have heard favourable comments about the Avon tyres for your ES2, they are what i am planning for my 16H which also has tired tyres on it at present.

Cheers

Iain

Previously wrote:

Hi everyone

I have just bought a 1953 ES2, it is my first old bike (apart from a 79 Kawasaki Z650), I have read about older bikes for a while before taking the plunge, so it is all a bit of a mystery to me.

I am really enjoying it, the right foot gear change and left foot brakes are taking some getting used to, its made a lot easier by the fact that wherever I am in the gear box I can always find a neutral somewhere... (is this normal?). The bike is a good runner but the tyre's are showing some minor cracking in the side walls, they are fine for local runs but I want to take her on some minor touring and would like to replace them, does anyone have any recomendations? She currently has Dunlop gold seal K70's which seem OK but I am thinking of replacing them with an Avon ribbed front and a safety mileage on the back. I have a couple of modern bikes, and would like handling as good as is reasonable for a bike this age, but have modest, hopefully realisticexpectations, any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

PS, I have plenty of more stupid questions like this.

hello mark try avons ribbed on the front and K70 dunlop on the back you can sill get k70 tyres yours anna j dixon

Previously wrote:

Hi everyone

I have just bought a 1953 ES2, it is my first old bike (apart from a 79 Kawasaki Z650), I have read about older bikes for a while before taking the plunge, so it is all a bit of a mystery to me.

I am really enjoying it, the right foot gear change and left foot brakes are taking some getting used to, its made a lot easier by the fact that wherever I am in the gear box I can always find a neutral somewhere... (is this normal?). The bike is a good runner but the tyre's are showing some minor cracking in the side walls, they are fine for local runs but I want to take her on some minor touring and would like to replace them, does anyone have any recomendations? She currently has Dunlop gold seal K70's which seem OK but I am thinking of replacing them with an Avon ribbed front and a safety mileage on the back. I have a couple of modern bikes, and would like handling as good as is reasonable for a bike this age, but have modest, hopefully realisticexpectations, any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

PS, I have plenty of more stupid questions like this.

hello mark try avons ribbed on the front and K70 dunlop on the back you can sill get k70 tyres yours anna j dixon