Any consensus out there on best tires for '04 FJR

[gbasky]

Snows melting and starting to make plans for early season road swing.

I've been running Battlax, but they seem to wear rather quickly.

What have others found to be most durable/highest mileage rubber out there?

Thanks

Greg Basky

Saskatoon SK CANADA

 

[ionbeam]

Greg, I hope ya take what follows your post with a sense of humor, tires have been discussed a lot6.37e12 here and there are thousands of pages about them with none actually providing the ONE right answer.

Bar none, a car tire will last the longest on the back; read the Dark Side thread (all the thousands of posts). Pirelli Angles, any of the Michelin PRx family, Avons, Bridgestone BT-023 -- well just about any Sport Tour tire will give good average tire life. The FJR tends to get between 7-12k miles F & R on average, running Sport Tour tires. Choose any name brand Sport Tour tire at your price point and you should get within this mileage average. It is certainly possible to get a lot less out of any tire based on temperature, roads and rider use, but it also possible to get more, a lot here do get more.

You can get some pretty durable tires like Metzeler ME880 Marathons but you will be giving up a lot of the sport to get more tour. Such are the trades that need to be made.

 

[Ignacio]

For an '04? No, sorry. Only for '03, '05-'11, and '13-'14...there was a convention on those years and formal resolution was passed with a plurality.

'04 and '12 had too many detuned French engines to build consensus on what tire was best. We came close for the non-ABS ones, but a last minute parliamentary procedure prevented a vote. Sorry. But we did devote an entire area of the forum just for those years...and a little side-conversation about oil.

 

[FJRay]

I'm partial to the round rubber black ones .YMMV

sorry.

 

[Bugnatr]

The Darkside is calling you....

https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/141913-going-to-the-dark-side/

 

[escapefjrtist]

I'm partial to the round rubber black ones .YMMV

sorry.

...beat me to it Ray!

--G

 

[Uncle Hud]

gbasky, thanks for the chuckles, man.

Google "tires site:fjrforum.com" ---> about 868 results (0.54 seconds)

 

[RadioHowie]

For an '04? No, sorry. Only for '03, '05-'11, and '13-'14...there was a convention on those years and formal resolution was passed with a plurality.
'04 and '12 had too many detuned French engines to build consensus on what tire was best. We came close for the non-ABS ones, but a last minute parliamentary procedure prevented a vote. Sorry. But we did devote an entire area of the forum just for those years...and a little side-conversation about oil.

shame..Shame...SHAME ON YOU!!!

 

[Ignacio]

shame..Shame...SHAME ON YOU!!!

Says the man that tried to table the motion.......until 2027 or after the PR9 comes out. Pot to kettle...BLACK!

 

[puppychow]

 

[radiummadman]

you old timers are getting lame

 

[puppychow]

you old timers are getting lame

Gee. Don't you have a radioactive personality. Must be something in your water..

PS - Anything worth seeing in Radium Springs by the way? Sounds interesting..

 

[AAFJR]

PS - Anything worth seeing in Radium Springs by the way? Sounds interesting..

The chics are hot there.

 

[SacramentoMike]

you old timers are getting lame

Nonsense. I've been lame for years.

 

[Pterodactyl]

Radium Hot Springs is in BC just south of Kootenay Park and on one route to the Icefield Parkway. Been thru several times and stopped for fuel and chow.... never noticed a particular jump in the hotness factor of the local ladies. Perhaps, given their locale, one must use a Geiger Counter to determine their hotness. And, by the way, every single FJR I've seen there was running a CT rear and a GT Angel up front-- yup, everyone. Now that's a consensus.

 

[Uncle Hud]

PS - Anything worth seeing in Radium Springs by the way? Sounds interesting..

The chics are hot there.

Yeah, but what about the chicks? I'm an ex-Navy nuke, and I've been looking for a babe that glows in the dark .... got them in Radium Springs?

 

[HotRodZilla]

That's Radium Springs NM. And there is nothing to see there. Blink and you'll miss it. Fort Selden is there but I've never been to it. Last time I was near the park, some ****** bag ranger guy gave us a hard time because we were on motorcycles. I told him to get fu@*×! and left.

 

[Cav47]

PR4 GT. Worked for me well over 10k.

 

[frankenfeejeer]

PR4 GT. Worked for me well over 10k.

Here is a list of the last few sets of tires and their miles on my 03 over the last couple years.

PR3's: 7986miles and 10405 miles

PR2's: 10694 miles

PR4's: 7992 miles

For my next set, going on next week, I'm going with a set of Continentals I paid <$200 for on Amazon.