ac Willet, ATV Supermoto superstar, says that in this no-holds-barred competition you can’t show mercy and can’t be afraid to push it to the edge. The right tires, he says, play a huge part in all of this, and Duro Tire is fast becoming the tire-of-choice for top-line success in ATV Supermoto. At last July’s New York stop in the NASMOTO Supermoto Series plenty of other riders got a first look at the Duro tires Zac races on and they liked what they saw. And what they felt out on the track.
     No surprise. Duro’s Top Fighter and Scorcher are a pair of tires designed, developed and perfected especially for ATV Supermoto and understandably drew rave reviews. So did plenty of other offerings from Duro, tires like the old-school HF245 and HF247 flat-trackers and the tried-and-true Easy Trail and Power Trail, a pair of ATV tires adapted from MX. Depending on the individual rider’s style they all worked great and opened up lots of eyes. Riders were control-sliding into the corners and rocketing out with a hard bite that didn’t quit. Supermoto is about as serious as ATV racing gets and Duro Tire is equally serious about supplying the right tires for it.
     The DI-2014 Top Fighter is the perfect example. These tires were designed, formulated and compounded to excel in Supermoto, especially on the asphalt sections. They’re top performers in every sense of that term. Zac Willet and Eric Jennings, both confirmed Duro believers, use them in a new 19/6.50-10 front and 18/10-10 rear. Those very same Top Fighters are available right now in a hard compound with a softer-compound version coming soon. As-delivered the Top Fighters work great–ask anyone on the NASMOTO circuit who’s tried them–and as a racer’s bonus they’re easily modified for personal preferences. Extra-large tread blocks and a tough, 6-ply carcass allow for custom grooving and even more bite in both front and rear.
     Then there’s that Supermoto Scorcher. And as good as those Top Fighters are on a dry track, the Duro Scorcher is fast becoming the tire to have when things get wet. The Scorcher’s gigantic tread blocks provide the kind of maximum contact that lets a rider dig in deep and there are extra-deep directional grooves to keep that hard bite in the wet. The Scorcher isn’t limited to just wet-weather racing, either. The tread pattern works just as well in the dry; it’s especially suited to hard-pack surfaces. The Scorcher’s already available in a variety of sizes and Duro is now offering it in new sizes to match the Top Fighters, those 19/6.50-10 fronts and an 18/10-10 rears, the only change being a 19/6.0-10 for the Scorcher front. The Scorcher will soon be available in a softer compound, as well, and with that soft compound this promises to be one unbeatable Supermoto rain tire.
     As Zac Willet says, in Supermoto you can’t show mercy and can’t be afraid to push the envelope. That’s a pretty close description of Duro Tire these days. Duros are fast becoming the tire-of-choice here. With more than 60 years in the tire business Duro knows what works and knows how to serve it up. It’s all available through Parts Unlimited.