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WFO Bikes & Racing realised that the Tubliss Tyre Core System needed a quality tyre to offer the best overall solution. What was needed was a high quality competitively priced tyre. Over the past year, we have been looking for the impossible, the best quality, best performing off road tyre at the best price. We are really happy to announce that such tyres exist. WFO Bikes & Racing brings you Mitas, the largest motorcycle tyre manufacturer in Europe, offering "works" spec tyres to SA.
Founded in the early 1930's as a subsidiary of Michelin, MITAS was the winning proposal, combing the words Michelin and Veritas. Mitas established itself as a major manufacturer of quality tyres soon after the Second World War, and continues to produce many of the world's best tyres in its three enormous Czech plants.
Today the Mitas product range is unparalleled and includes tyres for a wide variety of applications, from go-karts to massive earth-moving and mining machinery. Many of the world's best industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturers specify Mitas tyres as original fitment for their machines. Mitas is equally famous for its superb off-road tyres to suit Motocross, Enduro, Dual Sport, Junior MX, Speedway and Trials motorcycle applications.
Mitas is in fact the largest motorcycle tyre manufacturer in Europe! Using cutting-edge formulation and design, it produces millions of tyres every year, under the Mitas name as well as under contract for major tyre brands such as Michelin, Continental & Trelleborg. Mitas tyres are used around the world in competitive and recreational applications and occupy the premium end of the off-road and adventure bike markets.
WHY CHOOSE MITAS?
- Mitas have produced bicycle and motorcycle tyres for over 100 years and use only the finest raw materials to produce tyres of exceptional quality and value.
- Throughout the 1960’s /70’s / 80’s and 90’s the worlds best Motocross and Enduro riders tested and rode the Mitas tyres to many world championships. Thousands of miles were covered over every conceivable type of terrain and condition, wet, muddy and slippery conditions, dry hard packed conditions, sand, deep mud, desert, snow and ice.
- As a result moulds were changed, tyres re-tested and moulds were changed again and tyres re-tested, until the optimum tyres were produced for every terrain.
- Tyre manufacturing is a science and seriously competent riders worked in tandem with Mitas tyre chemists to produce tyres for your use today. Mitas is serious about tyres and serious about producing the best tyre for any condition.
- The Mitas Motorcycles tyres have outperformed all the well known tyre manufacturers in many independent tyre tests & reviews around the world.
- Mitas have enjoyed much success on the racing front with wins coming from the world 6 days Enduro and world MX championship.
- The Mitas Dual sport range have proven their worth in highly-demanding long-distance Rally events including the DAKAR, and on journeys through Africa and Asia (e.g. Moscow to Baikal and back, the first winter crossing of lake Baikal and the Lena river, crossing of North Africa and Sahara desert ) and many “around the world” trips. In all these events, Mitas gave excellent handling over the most demanding terrain and over 20.000km on a set of Mitas is not unheard of.
WHAT MITAS TYRES CAN OFFER YOU?
- Highly Competitive costs with high quality product (these are NOT cheap Chinese tyres!)
- A wide range of Dual Sport tyres to cater for on road, off road & 50/50 biased adventure riders.
- A wide range of Enduro & Motocross tyres with international race proven pedigree & heritage.
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WHAT THE EXPERTS HAVE TO SAY
Alfie Cox:
"I have tested the MITAS tyres over the last 2 months with 24 days of solid riding on my adventure tours: GRIPPING stuff 9/10, even on slippery rocks. I highly recommend the MITAS tyres."
Jan (Staal) du Toit, Country Trax (SA Dual Sport Guru)
"MITAS gives me enough traction for controlled power slides and wheeling my 1200 on gravel. I recommend them to all Dual Sport Riders".
Bollie Van Royen (08 SA Open champion)
“Mitas Tires offer some of; if not the best traction I have ever experience from offroad tires. Normally my 450 will destroy a tire in a national offroad but I have been blown away with how well the MITAS have worn….You would swear they had only done the time trail!”
NEWS & REVIEWS
Enduro World Magazine Review
The wide tread pattern allows the knobblies to bite down into the dirt and get maximum traction. Being a hard terrain tyre the C20 gripped like velcro onto the hard pack surface of Zeemans. Under a heavy throttle the rear dug down and gave plenty traction without it feeling like it was going to slide out. On the thick sandy sections the C20 did well,(…) For the quality and value for money that the Mitas brand offers, this is a tyre I would consider buying as it offers good quality and long life wearing.
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SWEDISH TEST RATES MITAS C-20 BEST
Sweden's Motosport magazine has tested eight rear motocross tyres from Dunlop, Kenda, Maxxis, Metzeler, Michelin, Mitas, Pirelli and Viking. The test was carried out by test rider Michael Schwartz in Norrköping on the Kråkvilan motocross course.
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E-09 CONVINCES KIWI SKEPTIC
Colin Cooper of Kiwi Rider magazine tries out the Mitas E-09:
Preceding this year’s ‘Most Excellent’ Capital Coast Adventure, Vege advised that I would be trying out a new pair of Mitas E09 tyres. And of course one look at them had me all stressed out.
“Yeah but I gotta cover a lotta kms to get there Vege and these look more aggressive – will they grip on the seal? Blah, blah, blah”
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TIRE TEST.COM
E-07 online review
E-09 online review
LONG WAY DOWN UNDER - JOB DONE!
In late August two doctors headed off to circumnavigate Australia on BMW G650X Enduro bikes, to raise money ...
The doctors returned with high praise for the Mitas tyres that carried them safely on their way:
Both Franco and I were amazed by the Mitas E-07 tyres and had considered them as the tyre for our trip after long and hard searching of the internet forums and from recommendation by Dave at AussieBiker. True to form they outlasted many tyres we have previously used, with my rear tyre covering 11000km before being changed.
Mitas E-07 is the best tyre currently available for Australian adventure riding.
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