New tires for the R1200RT
- Thread starter BigJohn
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Cost?
Method of purchase/installation?
How better or worse than preceding tires?
Good luck with them.
Method of purchase/installation?
How better or worse than preceding tires?
Good luck with them.
I ran a set of Pilot Road 4 GT tires on my Honda ST1300. Great handling tire. It was a heavy bike and I only got 7000 miles out of them. The rear wore flat and the front wore trapezoidal (dual compound tire wore out on the sides).
I switched to Bridgestone T31 (and later T32) and got much better mileage out of them (11000) with more even wear. Handling was great, too.
A friend of mine has a 2013 RT and runs Pilot Roads on it and he loves them.
I switched to Bridgestone T31 (and later T32) and got much better mileage out of them (11000) with more even wear. Handling was great, too.
A friend of mine has a 2013 RT and runs Pilot Roads on it and he loves them.
The back story.... I just purchased this bike. Have owned it now 7 days. It has an OLD set of Michelin Road 3's. You can't even buy these tires any more, as Michelin is now building and selling the Road 6. The wife and I have even done a 260 mile 2-up ride on them and I have pushed them hard in the canyon corners.
So I got an itching question..... What is the date code on the tires, because this used bike has been sitting in a garage a lot in the past 11 years.... only 2,200 miles in 11 years.
Holy Moses!!!!! 3609! ..... Are you flippin kidding me? These tires are nearly 16 years old.
They are coming off tomorrow. But I gotta tell you, they have performed as if they are new... I have ridden heavy with the wife and I have pushed hard in the corners, scraping pegs and they have been outstanding.
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I don't buy into the five year thing on tires either. There are just too many variables to make a blanket statement like that. The '08 XR650L that I recently bought has tires from '16 and I don't plan to change them until they wear out and the rear is nearly there anyway.
Storage environment has a lot to do with the aging of tires. Garage kept, stable temperature, out of the sun, will drastically increase the longevity of the rubber. I've run tires older than 5 years. I've replaced tires younger than 5 years. As always, Your Mileage May Vary.
I replaced my boat trailer tires out of caution as they were 15 years old. Tires looked fine and with plenty of tread, but I could feel the rubber was harder than newer tires. I didn't want a tread separation to ruin a good Saturday of fishing.
I replaced my boat trailer tires out of caution as they were 15 years old. Tires looked fine and with plenty of tread, but I could feel the rubber was harder than newer tires. I didn't want a tread separation to ruin a good Saturday of fishing.
I saw the PR4 and double checked the thread date to see if someone did some grave digging in the old threads.
I’ve been behind an S1kr running the
PR4 in a downpour and they were doing very well; could clearly see the siping doing its job. I’ve got in the 10’s of thousands of miles on the PR5 with good result, usually got 4500-5000 miles in the mountains of North Georgia. I recently fell in love with the Roadattack 4 from Continental and have switched over to them for both my bikes.
I’ve been behind an S1kr running the
PR4 in a downpour and they were doing very well; could clearly see the siping doing its job. I’ve got in the 10’s of thousands of miles on the PR5 with good result, usually got 4500-5000 miles in the mountains of North Georgia. I recently fell in love with the Roadattack 4 from Continental and have switched over to them for both my bikes.
That's quite a few thousand miles past the wear bars!
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