02-16-2018, 07:12 AM
Ulvetanna, people come at purchasing motorcycle tires from a number of different perspectives. Guys like The ferret and Empty Sea are going to be replacing their tires quite often because they rack up a lot of miles on their motorcycles so they will undoubtedly always be replacing those tires before they bump up against the timeline five years past the manufacturing date.
I don't rack up a lot of miles every year, so I prefer to purchase tires that are still somewhat reasonably new and have been properly stored. In your case, you'll likely have bought and sold at least three motorcycles (along with their tires) before I get around to changing out one set of tires on my CB.
If motorcycle tires don't meet my requirements, I'll continue to send them back. If the tire manufacturers ultimately have a problem with me doing so then I'd suggest that they look into the reseller/distributor chain involved here. I'd also be willing to pay a higher overall price for tires to a reseller that would be willing to have the manufacturing date checked to guarantee the tire was no more than a couple of years old. But only providing that they were properly stored. And as I mentioned in my example above, I don't believe there is a guarantee that this will always be the case.
I don't rack up a lot of miles every year, so I prefer to purchase tires that are still somewhat reasonably new and have been properly stored. In your case, you'll likely have bought and sold at least three motorcycles (along with their tires) before I get around to changing out one set of tires on my CB.
If motorcycle tires don't meet my requirements, I'll continue to send them back. If the tire manufacturers ultimately have a problem with me doing so then I'd suggest that they look into the reseller/distributor chain involved here. I'd also be willing to pay a higher overall price for tires to a reseller that would be willing to have the manufacturing date checked to guarantee the tire was no more than a couple of years old. But only providing that they were properly stored. And as I mentioned in my example above, I don't believe there is a guarantee that this will always be the case.