Supermaxx ST
The Supermaxx ST is the rival to all sport-touring tyres, providing impressive performance and great mileage.
- Spiral steel belt for consistent sidewall rigidity
- Maintains structure throughout entire life cycle
- Excellent performance, wet and dry
- Nano-silica compound for immense grip
We have seen the Maxxis Supermaxx ST2 fitted OE on the powerful KTM, the tyre was developed with the help of KTM after many year supplying the KTM Enduro and MX range.
The tread has an innovative 3D sipe to improve tread stiffness on the road, with the opposite side allowed to grow, eliminating uneven wear and enhancing wet grip when cornering. With the wet roads we have in the UK, its good to hear the V-shaped groove design improves wet performance.
SUPERMAXX ST TYRE TEST RESULTS
Motorcycle Sport and Leisure Magazine
Motorcycle Sport and Leisure magazine tested the SuperMaxx ST in Spain for a road test, track test at Ascari, and 3-month test.
Sports Riding
“…the more laps I clocked, the better the grip levels got as the compound began to warm up. It didn’t take long for me to gain complete confidence in the tyres, achieving big lean angles and getting quite fruity with the throttle… The tyres felt very stable, and accurate, effortlessly taking in the high speed undulations that make up the rollercoaster layout of Ascari.”
Touring on the Road
“On a Kawasaki Z800 I was greeted with beautiful stability from the off, and the tyres really took the bumpy nature of the tarmac well… Grip was commendable, handling felt effortless and I had no moments to recount.”
3 Months Testing
"I’ve been very, very impressed with the OE Maxxis Supermaxx ST rubber. They’re not what I’d usually go for… particularly when there’s so much choice from the bigger names in the game. But I’d definitely think again now. They’ve been on the market since 2016 and have more than proved themselves in that time, offering masses of grip (particularly at the front) under serious pressure, for a fraction of the price of some of the ‘more established’ competition. They’ve been brilliant in the wet, too. I’ve had some properly soggy journeys in the last month and they’ve proved predictable, reliable and quite capable of cutting through the deluge."
Motorcycle News
“An impressive variety of bikes were available ranging from GSR750 and Z800 middleweight roadsters to 1000cc sports bikes right up to ZZ-R1400 and Hayabusa hyperbikes and the STs impressed on them all.
The front, in particular, stood out, being both precise and stable while never lacking grip even under the most extreme riding conditions on whatever type of bike. That said, its firm rigidity, a result presumably of the spiral steel belts used for extra sidewall strength, marked it out as a sports-touring tyre, rather than as a softer pure sports one, but that’s in no way a criticism.
The rear impressed, too. On the bigger, more powerful machines, some movement, slight squirming and, at extremes, minimal, controllable slides were experienced but only when really pushing hard powering out of turns. The rest of the time it was impressively grippy, stable and predictable. But on the smaller, lighter bikes, such as the impressively nimble and taut Kawasaki Z800, there was none of that: the rear always tracking predictably, firmly and with more than enough grip.” – Phil West, Motorcycle News
Supermaxx Sport
The Supermaxx Sport offers a massive 30% improvement over its predecessor in life, grip and handling.
- New dual compound high density full silica tread giving 30% more mileage
- New progressive steel spiral belt with high density at the top of the tread for mileage, moving to mid-density as you lean, to low density at full lean giving a bigger contact patch throughout any turn giving reliable cornering with grip and stability
- High drainage tread pattern for wet days
- Reinforced tread groves increase the tyre stiffness for stability
PSB (Progressive Spiral Belt ) is another breaking through engineering technology for best contact, feeling and grip. A new progressive steel spiral belt with high density at the top of the tread for mileage, moving to mid-density as you lean, to low density at full lean giving a bigger contact patch throughout any turn giving reliable cornering with grip and stability.
The Maxxis Supermaxx Sport is designed to rival the flagship sports tyres in the market like the Metzeler Racetec RR, Michelin Power Cup 2, Pirelli Diablo Rosso III and the Bridgestone Battlax R11, where riders value grip over mileage, and cornering speed over comfort.
The Supermaxx Sport has everything the other major manufacturers have, except the price tag.
