I need to get a new set of tyres for my DRZ, and as I going to be riding the bike to and from work in 4 weeks time, I'm thinking I should get a tyre more suited to the road. I'd love to be able to afford 2 sets of rims and tyres but I can't. I know there is dedicated road tyres, and knobblies, but I'm sure I've seen a sort of cross breed between the 2. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Also I'm thinking of changing the front sprocket to try and lower the revs at higher speeds. It's something I've been thinking about for a while... Will this have any HUGE affect on my acceleration? Or will I not notice it too much? A guy told me to go a size bigger rear tyre and that would help to lower highway revs. Is that true?

A bigger size tyre on the rear should be good, as ur mainly on road. (but this might affect the dynamics of the bike).

Also a sprocket change will help, and im guessing it wont have a tremendous effect on acceleration considering drz has a decent amount of torque to start off with.

But with both changes, u will need to reconfig speedo. Does DRZ even have a speedo?

Yeah curry muncha, the DRZ does have a speedo. Some people have called it overkill in a motorbike speedo, has your speed (obviously) odometer, time, lap time, 2 trip meters. So much shit that I've never bothered to work it out.

Thanks for the advice. How do you mean it will affect the dynamics of the bike?

I'd still like to be able to take the bike off road with the tyres I get, on like enduro rides, like the 2 day events organised by Dalby Moto, so I'm gunna hav to have a good look around.

a bigger rear tyre will lift the back end up higher pushing more weight to the front therefore affecting how the bike handles. this would probably be fairly minor tho.

when changing the gearing one tooth on the front sprocket is worth two on the rear. eg, go up one tooth on the front is the same as goin up two on the rear. depending how much you want to drop the revs by it might be worth just going one tooth smaller on the rear as that will drop the revs some and have minimal effect on acceleration

as for tyres i cant recommend any cos i have only ridden motocross or road bikes but i would probably go with bridgestone. they were my choice of tyres when dirt biking cos i found them to be a bit harder than dunlops so i would get more wear out of them. just ask an independant tyre shop as they wont be pushing one brand harder than the other

Lol, not bad for a speedo then .

As well as what chump said, increasing rear tyre size will also make the bike heavier at the back, and raise the centre of gravity of the whole bike up by a bit. But as said, i dont know how much it will affect the handling of the bike, could be barely noticeable or otherwise.

Learnt that its not only that the weight will be pushed forward, if the tyre heats up alot, and your going quick the tyre will increase in diameter again and can cause some shudders through the front end,... but not sure if the DRZ will hit enough speed to worry about that.

Go with some pilot powers, drop the rear a tooth, or two