- Joined
- Sunday June 28, 2020
- Location
- Manchester
I remember the heady days of the 70's and 80's when you would order a brand new bike and pay the dealer to swap the OEM Yokahama "Deathmasters" (as they were genuinely known) for some Dunlops or Metzlers before you picked up the bike. I did this several times.I've never understood the logic behind bundling shite blades with a razor. It's like fitting crap tyres as OEM fitment to a new motorbike (not that I've ever had a brand new one but its well known that manufacturers get tyre companies to supply a load of tyres at a low cost and they're not the same as the retail ones of the same name).
Rock-hard Yokahama tyres were standard fit and truly lethal back then - you wouldn't dare take them out in the rain.
How times have changed. Yokahama now make well regarded performance tyres.
Back on track: i had a single Merkur blade bundled with a razor and as i recall it was fairly blunt feeling.