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Russman Grand Master

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Yokohama rang me last week about tyres for superlap saying that the new AO50 is being used by some front runners at superlap. They were saying that they are a bit quicker and softer. Semi's are gunna be costing drug money soon!

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Heya boyz,

Tried every avenue under the sun to get the new RE-11's but simply not available in the Australian market.

With the RE-11 being the replacement for the RE-01R you would assume Bridgestone Oz would need to clear most stock of RE-01R prior, so they dont have conflicting tyres or a plethora of old stock that can't sell. So I suspect there could be 12 months or greater until we see these puppies.

In the end, reverted to current model here RE-01R & looking forward to giving these a good run.

Cheers,

Ben

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nisskid Grand Master

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http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=118

for a street tyre i dont think u can go past the direzza star specs, plays with the big boys, for not much more $$ than the KU36's.

tirerack can send them from the states for ya.

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