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Having over-slept slightly I got up to a light drizzle on Sunday and needed to 'make progress' to reach the start-point for Ryansryde. This took me along roads that had a fair amount of rain overnight and were still quite wet where no sun/no wind reached to dry them.
I can only comment that I did not even consider the tyres to be anything other than trustworthy from chicken edge to chicken edge. Full marks for allowing me to concentrate on the disappearing points and even use a little gutter gravel when I was cutting it fine. One 'rapid stop' alongside a non-indicating tractor/long trailer combination saw me on the white lines with no slippage and only the smoothness of the paint felt through the forks (with spacers!) made me look down to see the lines.
Arriving at the Evesham destination of the ride we were shepherded onto a large grassed field which had absorbed the rain overnight leaving wet grass as a surface. Whilst one or two 'easy-rider' layout had a bit of slip 'n' slide the thinner tyres on my R gave a good solid feel whilst being steady on the throttle.
The surface not tried yet is UK mud. I shall leave that pleasure to someone else being satisfied that the Distanzia is an excellent choice for the R for mainly road-biased travel with a competence on light track and trail work not a worry.
The slightly hasty first part coupled with the procession riding and throttle blipping and clutch slipping gave the many people waving and smiling at the side of the roads a CCC carbon oval longs greeting - some sound and a few flames - contributed to a reserve light mileage of 113 mls. - approx. 17.1 kpl or 50mpg. Very acceptable to someone who is 'two-up' without a passenger.
Unless you wish to go mud-plugging these tyres are highly recommended for UK roads/tracks.
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