Michelin Pilot Road 3s...I joined the club

[Cormanus]

Loathe as I am to mention the earlier Pirelli Angel discussion (see [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8570]here), to the best of my understanding there was no single event that caused the wear. It was simply that, once the tyre got near the end of it's life, the wear was a great deal more rapid than expected. The last part of its life was on straight roads and it copped most of its wear in the centre. And boy did it go fast.

It happened to me with a BT45 a couple of years ago. I hoped to get one last trip out of it but had to change it less than half way through. It happened to Pterodactyl's rental bike in the US last year: the rear tyre was old-ish but OK when we picked the bike up; by the day after the rally it was getting unsafe to ride on.

FlynRider, Pterodactyl, Ulvetanna, kmoney and others are right about this: if you have a tyre getting to the end of it's life before the start of a trip, change it before you go or be ready to change it on the way. As Pterodactyl reported, tyres for the CB1100 are not all that easy to find in remote places and it can upset ride plans to have to lose a day or two while you wait for a tyre to be shipped from somewhere.