Avon St Tire Mileage

[wontica]

Lots of outside but little center wear sounds like classic underinflation. Are you sure your gauge is accurate?

 

[red2kcbr]

Avons here. The original Metzler MEZ4s lasted 3700 miles; the rear was toast when I replaced front and rear with Avons. Great tire, love the grip dry or wet. I was expecting excellent mileage, like 8000 or so, but it's not gonna happen. I'm at 3300 on the Avons, and I'm just about down to the wear markers on the rear. Front looks good enough to maybe squeeze another rear tire with it, but I'm not going to bother. I've got new meats waiting in the garage, so I'll push this rear a little more, maybe to 4000, and then change both.

I swear it's related to these hot Texas roads and to the composition of the road surface here. They are really rough, the new road surfaces. I mean abrasive, very abrasive. Great traction, but hell on tires.

I've bitched and moaned about this before, but it doesn't bother me enough to make me move. I can't think of any place I'd rather live.

 

[exocet]

Well F*ck me :angry01: I just bought some Avons hoping to increase time between tire changes. The Bridgestones this time around are going to get me 5K rear and the front is outta here with about 8k (maybe more, I'm to lazy to go look).

I like the Bridgestones, but I'd like more mileage out of them too. I just got back from a 3500 mile trip in 5 days and they are pretty much toast within the next 400 miles (4500 ttl)

 

[Ijuggle]

I now have about 4000 miles on my Avons. About 3000 two up loaded to the max, 36 and 42psi. One 150 mile track day at Thunderhill with 31psi front and rear, temp in the shade got to 109, ground off the brake peddle on the right and ground into the carbonfiber generator cover, sidestand, centerstand, muffler on the left. The tires look terrific. I'll bet they go another 4 or 5 thousand. Buy them.

Jeff

 

[HIGHLANDER]

HEY Jeff, Napa tour leader ! 'Bout time ya found us!

After three sets of Pilot road / sport combo, I'm about to try the Avons for a while, I was averaging about 6000 miles on the Pilots.. So far I like 'em. Time will tell.

 

[exskibum]

After three sets of Pilot road / sport combo, I'm about to try the Avons for a while, I was averaging about 6000 miles on the Pilots.. So far I like 'em. Time will tell.

Hey Dave:

I've been thinking of putting Michelin Pilot Roads on the Feejer to replace the OEM Bridgestones. Do you find the Pilot Roads inadequately sticky for the front, or has your mixing been solely to balance the wear? (I have no experience with the Pilot Roads.)

I've been running Pilot Sports on the Blackbird and like the stickiness a lot, but I can't get 3500 out of a Sport on the rear. Right now, it has a Pilot Power with about 1500 on the rear, which looks like it will outlast the Pilot Sports there. The Pilot Sport on the front has about 5400 on it -- maybe 600 left on it now. I like the Pilot Powers well enough (pretty close to as sticky as the Pilot Sports from what I can tell) that I'm going to replace the front Sport with a Pilot Power.

So, for the Feejer -- Pilot Roads, or should I also be thinking about putting a Pilot Power up front from your experience? And from what you know at this point, how do expect the Avons to compare to your experience with the Michelins?

 

[Craig in Denver]

Torch posted this elsewhere and I thought I add it here.

Torch on tire pressure: quote:

Take your front tire to 42psi. Take the rear one to 44psi. Go ride with your sweetie.

Make it a long spirited ride. Immediately after the ride (like before she has time to climb off) measure the tire pressures again with the same (accurate!) pressure gauge. Ideally you should see a 2 - 4 psi increase in hot pressure over the starting cold pressure on the front and a 6-8 psi increase on the rear. If the increase is more than that then your tire is heating up too much. Compensate with a higher cold tire pressure. Conversely, if the increase is less then the tires are not warming up enough and you need to lower the cold pressure you start with.

BTW: do not trust the gauge built into the compressor at the gas station. They are notoriously inaccurate -- could be off by 10 psi either way. Buy your own decent quality pressure gauge and carry it with you.

 

[galactus]

I just finished a cross country trip on my avons (starting in seattle) and had about

1000 miles on them before i started. well, after adding 8200 miles on my trip i'd

say i have at least another 1000 left in the rear and the front has a ways to go.

i ran them at 42/42 the whole time.

this was my first set of avons and i was a bit worried that they might not last

through the trip. i'm glad they worked out, i'll be using them again.

 

[leebunyard]

My son and I and several buddies just returned from a six day, 1800 mile ride up thru Oregon and Washington to take in the National Outdoor Motocross race at Washougal. Great ride, some really rippin' sweeper roads. I turned 9500 miles on my Avons on the ride, including some pretty heavy high speed twisty stuff trying to keep up with my son who was on his GSXR (I was "almost" able stay up with my son), the Avons are still superb, and have quite a bit of treadlife left--I estimate I will get around 12,000 miles out of the tires. Will definitely stay with the Avons.

The new Superbrace also resulted in a noticeable improvement in handling, probably at least a 5 mph increase in sweeper turn speeds, with very confident handling.

Lee in the Mountains of Northern California B)

 

[sks700]

I changed to Avons after the stock rear got done at 7178 miles. I put the second Avon on just this morning. The one I took off had 9379 on it. This is on a non-abs '05.

Lee