Rear Tire Time, 14K

[HikerToo_imp]

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.

[the Ferret]

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

[HikerToo_imp]

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....

[the Ferret]

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

[dailyrider_imp]

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.

[flynrider]

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.

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

[chairdr_imp]

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.

[HikerToo_imp]

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 ....

[the Ferret]

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.

[Randy B]

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.

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.