02-01-2018, 02:06 AM
Buying tires in a set?
It goes without saying that depending on many factors not worth getting into here, the front and the rear will not reach the point where they need to be replaced at the same time. I would much rather buy a single fresh tire which needs replacement when it's due and wait for the time when the other one will be worn out or damaged with my money in my pocket and the tire in somebody else's production pipeline, instead of the same money in the vendor's pocket, and a slowly ageing tire sitting in my storage...
(production year is not stamped on the tire wall without a reason
(02-01-2018, 01:39 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I am not certain what it would cost to have tires send over but the European sellers should mention that on their web sites.Considering only the purchase price, yes. However, I don't remember ever buying both tires for a motorcycle at the same time.
Keep in mind that when you see a price in Europe that most the time it includes VAT (value added tax ) but this does not apply when the item is send to the USA .
I found that shipping from Germany was by far the lowest price.
With the internet it is now so easy to find things we can not get here.
Most time it is cheaper to buy a set of tires instead of just one.
It goes without saying that depending on many factors not worth getting into here, the front and the rear will not reach the point where they need to be replaced at the same time. I would much rather buy a single fresh tire which needs replacement when it's due and wait for the time when the other one will be worn out or damaged with my money in my pocket and the tire in somebody else's production pipeline, instead of the same money in the vendor's pocket, and a slowly ageing tire sitting in my storage...
(production year is not stamped on the tire wall without a reason
