New Tire Prices

[DGShannon_imp]

Whoa, whoa, whoa....

I don't believe anyone is jumping on you, just making clear the idiosyncrasies with these tires. In my experience I have always worn out the rear first, but not with this bike (with the factory tires anyway). I got 9000 on the front and 15000 on the rear, but I probably could have gotten another 1000 out of the rear, but I don't like to push it.

Same here. Go through a couple of rears for every front. And, that is even with track days where heavy braking really takes it's toll on a front tire.

Whoa, whoa, whoa....

I don't believe anyone is jumping on you, just making clear the idiosyncrasies with these tires. In my experience I have always worn out the rear first, but not with this bike (with the factory tires anyway). I got 9000 on the front and 15000 on the rear, but I probably could have gotten another 1000 out of the rear, but I don't like to push it.

Front wear before rear wear might be expected on a sport bike, with their heavy front end bias, yet we don't see that. If that is the case on a sport bike, then you would expect it to be even more so on a CB1100. Must be some odd explanation, such as some folks tendency to see greater wear on the left side of a tire, in the US. Known to be due to lots of straight line miles where road surface rolls off (not flat) toward the right hand shoulder.