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Rear Tire Time, 14K - HikerToo_imp - 07-20-2015

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.
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RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - the Ferret - 07-20-2015

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

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - HikerToo_imp - 07-20-2015

(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....

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - the Ferret - 07-20-2015

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

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - dailyrider_imp - 07-20-2015

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.

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - flynrider - 07-20-2015

(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. Tongue

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

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - chairdr_imp - 07-21-2015

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.

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - HikerToo_imp - 07-21-2015

(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 ....

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - the Ferret - 07-21-2015

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.

RE: Rear Tire Time, 14K - Randy B - 07-21-2015

(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.
[Image: 3806fe8a866fe99c2815baacc5521644.]

(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.

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