Proline rear pins & front "Wedge" tyres

[The Doctor]

Summary of these is easy:

Fronts understeer like hell. Due to their very low profile they ride on the shoulders of the tyre and basically just wear out the outside row of blocks incredibly quickly. Pants.

Rears aren't so bad, but don't have the grip of the Schumacher Yellow Minipin, especially once they're worn. The rubber compound (silver I think) is to blame here, it seems somehow "smoother" than the Schumacher Yellow rubber and so slides much more on the carpet, particularly when turning into tight corners.

So, it's back to the usual yellow minipins and LP cut staggers (as soon as I can get hold of some...).

Thanks for letting me run them though Dave. Do you want them back? Probably not now they're slicks and don't work...!

[Dave Dodd]

Thank you Paul, for your excellent feedback, I will pass on our findings and thank them for letting us sample their tires for testing.

My view on these tires is:
if we were to use them as an control tyre for the rear only (as the fronts offer no grip) then they would be competitive in their own right but because of their wear rate ( they may be fractionally cheaper) you would be buying twice as many sets in comparison to the schumacher yellow mini pin.