Description
Even on asphalt
The off-road tire with on-road performance
On-road agility
The profiles of the KAROO™ Street are derived directly from those of the TOURANCE™ NEXT, with the precise aim of improving on-road behavior.
It features a multi-radius profile with a wider and longer contour to increase the ground contact area and thus improve grip and stability even when leaning.
The height of the tread pattern has been significantly increased to improve damping capacity and comfort.
The profile of the front tire follows the same pattern and geometry as that of the rear tire to ensure synchronized behavior of the whole.
Dry and wet grip
The KAROO™ Street features a high-silica compound with a balanced proportion of carbon black and resins to deliver excellent road grip in both wet and dry conditions.
A significant percentage of carbon black improves pavement resistance to tearing and premature wear when used on the road.
The right choice of polymer typology, fillers and resins combined with our exclusive, patented mixing process is the key to improving the cohesion of the different ingredients at the molecular level. This results in a polymer matrix with an incomparable level of homogeneity, maximizing its properties and characteristics, and ensuring solid performance over time.
Traction in all conditions
The tread design of the KAROO™ Street is derived from the layout of the KAROO™ 3 and its uniquely shaped lugs, with the precise aim of offering excellent road performance, even wear and a high level of stability combined with real cross-country capability.
Extra-large central studs create a wide, solid contact zone for high-speed stability on the road.
When riding off-road, the V-shaped stud layout and numerous active edges ensure grip during acceleration, traction and braking. On the road, the stud layout is able to reduce vibrations linked to ground contact and contributes to maximizing wear uniformity and longevity.
Longitudinal grooves in the middle of the central blocks ensure water evacuation and the tire's self-cleaning capacity.
Wide transverse grooves enable the blocks to dig into the earth, ensuring off-road traction especially on very compact dirt and clay soils.
The variable shape of the blocks combined with their V-shaped arrangement ensures a large number of active edges, which improves off-road traction.
Large lateral blocks provide a wide contact area when leaning, offering grip when cornering and stability at high speeds.
Integration with electronic rider aids
The KAROO™ Street integrates perfectly with electronic rider aids such as ABS and traction control.
The combination of extra-wide blocks and their V-shaped layout with the high rigidity of the tire's structure provides a high level of stability, traction and smooth steering. This provides good feedback to the ABS, traction control and autres electronic aids, since there is no interference from tread vibrations or deformations that can be found onautres tires.
