100/90-14 Michelin CITY GRIP 2 57P

Description

100/90-14 Michelin city grip 2 57P
Michelin pilot street 2
Scooter tyre
The michelin city grip 2 (100/90-14 57P) is an all-season urban street tire engineered specifically for scooters and light commuters.

Type: pure on-road / street tire (designed for city streets, highway commuting, wet asphalt, and painted road lines).

Placement: front or rear (universal fitment—can be mounted on either wheel depending on the scooter model).

Size: 100 mm width, 90% aspect ratio, fits a 14-inch wheel rim.

Load rating (57): supports up to 230 kg (507 lbs) — exceptionally high load capacity for a 14-inch commuter tire.

Speed rating (p): rated for speeds up to 150 km/h (93 mph).

Construction: tubeless (TL) street tire.
• Rim sizes start from 10-inches though 14-, 16- and finally 17-inch.
• The front tyre features a circumferential groove to aid agility, while lateral grooves give good performance on wet roads.
• The rear tyre’s central grooves optimizes water clearance while providing outstanding grip during the dry.
• It has superior wet and dry performance.

Silica-based compound: delivers exceptional grip on wet or slippery urban surfaces like manhole covers, crosswalk paint, and rain-soaked asphalt.

Shark-tooth tread design: progressive tread grooves cut through water films efficiently to maximize contact patch stability and prevent hydroplaning.

High mileage: engineered for long tread life, making it a benchmark tire for daily city delivery riders and commuters.
It is a primary fitment for 125cc–160cc urban scooters with 14-inch wheels, such as:

Honda: pcx 125 / pcx 150 / pcx 160 (rear tire fitment), click 125i / 150i, vario 125 / 150 / 160

Yamaha: aerox 155 (front wheel), lexi 125 / 155

Suzuki: address 110 / 125 (select 14-inch rim variants)
The michelin city grip 2 represents a major technological leap over the original city grip, engineered specifically to tackle unpredictable urban road hazards.

1. Rubber compound technology

100% Silica blend: unlike conventional scooter tires that rely heavily on carbon black, the city grip 2 uses a silica-dense compound. This ensures the rubber stays soft and pliable at lower ambient temperatures, providing instant grip on cold or wet asphalt without needing a long warm-up period.
Shark-tooth sipes: the tread pattern features sharp, tooth-like micro-sipes cut into the tread blocks. These bite through surface water film, road paint, and slick manhole covers to maintain direct rubber-to-road contact. Progressive water channels: deep main grooves extend from the central crown out to the tire shoulders, pumping water away to the sides as the wheel rotates to prevent hydroplaning.
All-season approval: it carries an official m+s rating on the sidewall. This means it is certified for year-round all-season use, offering improved traction in cold conditions, light gravel, mud, and wet winter slush compared to standard summer commuter tires.
Major global manufacturers select the city grip 2 as the original factory-fitted tire (OEM) for flagship scooters, including the yamaha x-max 125/300, piaggio beverly / vespa primavera, and peugeot metropolis 400.
Section width: 100 mm (nominal width from sidewall to sidewall).

Aspect ratio: 90% (sidewall height equals 90 mm).

Overall diameter: ~535.6 mm (21.08 inches), creating a balance between rolling inertia for fuel economy and bump absorption over rough asphalt.
Reinforced carcass (reinf): built with higher density ply layers than standard light commuter tires to handle two-up riding (rider + passenger) and heavy rear cargo boxes.

Under-tread protective layer: features an extra thick rubber crown buffer beneath the main tread grooves to prevent sharp road debris, glass, and nails from puncturing the casing.
Braking distance: tests show up to 10–15% shorter wet stopping distances compared to low-cost OEM factory tires.

Lean transition: linear profile prevents sudden “drop-in” feel when tipping into low-speed urban turns.

Noise efficiency: optimized tread block staggered spacing minimizes high-frequency tire whine on flat asphalt.