The CB1100 Community Forum

You know, on the bike it looked like I could get another 1K miles out of it, but now in this picture next to the new one, it looks like time:-)
Also to save travel time, I took the wheel off and will drop them off at the dealer for mount and balance. Only took 10 minutes to take off and will be $30 instead of $60 for the dealer tire work.

Yep you were due. What tire is that the Bridgestone?

(07-20-2015, 10:06 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Yep you were due. What tire is that the Bridgestone?

Yes, BT-54(OEM), bought a pair last year on sale at Chapparel, front installed around 9K...now rear at 14K, guess I'll need another front in 3 or 4K....

RandyB got good mileage out of his Stone too. My OEM Dunlop only made it about 8500 miles.

I changed my Dunlops at 13,500. the front still had a couple of thousand miles left but I was going on a 2800 mile trip and wanted new tires for it. Put on Avon Roadriders. Turned out to be a good choice. I have 5,500 miles on them now and they are wearing & riding great.

(07-20-2015, 10:11 AM)HikerToo_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-20-2015, 10:06 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Yep you were due. What tire is that the Bridgestone?

Yes, BT-54(OEM), bought a pair last year on sale at Chapparel, front installed around 9K...now rear at 14K, guess I'll need another front in 3 or 4K....

Your's did a lot better than mine. I got 6K front and 9.5K rear. I don't ride that aggresively, so I'm blaming the heat from the perpetually melting pavement here in the desert.

I'm having much better wear on the Michelin PR3s.

So is the CB1100 harder on front tires than most bikes?? Most of the bikes I've had, usually only had to replace the front tire every other time I replaced the rear. Granted, there has been times I should have replaced the front sooner, but didn't. Now that I'm older (and don't heal as quickly as I did when I was young) I tend replace both at the same time even though the front could probably run several thousand more miles.

(07-21-2015, 04:26 AM)chairdr_imp Wrote: [ -> ]So is the CB1100 harder on front tires than most bikes?? Most of the bikes I've had, usually only had to replace the front tire every other time I replaced the rear. Granted, there has been times I should have replaced the front sooner, but didn't. Now that I'm older (and don't heal as quickly as I did when I was young) I tend replace both at the same time even though the front could probably run several thousand more miles.

I believe the consensus is there is less tread on the front, at least on the OEM BT-54's ....

Excerpt from previous post:

Front tires start out with less rubber. According to Bridgestone, their front tires start out with 4/32 tread and rears with 9/32. If that is true with the Dunlops as well in 6200 miles I have used up 1/32 on the front and 4/32 on the rear, so the rear is wearing faster than the front.

(07-20-2015, 07:46 AM)HikerToo_imp Wrote: [ -> ]You know, on the bike it looked like I could get another 1K miles out of it, but now in this picture next to the new one, it looks like time:-)
Also to save travel time, I took the wheel off and will drop them off at the dealer for mount and balance. Only took 10 minutes to take off and will be $30 instead of $60 for the dealer tire work.

(07-20-2015, 10:34 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]RandyB got good mileage out of his Stone too. My OEM Dunlop only made it about 8500 miles.

This is where I was when I replaced my rear tire. I probably could have waited, but I was tickling the wear indicator and I don't like to push it on moto tires.