Tire wear.

[bryguy322]

On my old R6, I had about 10K on my rear tire and 12K on the front. They was very bad though. Instead of replacing the tires, I traded it in on the Feejer. Seems to have worked out so far.

 

[fjrrider]

I'm begining to think that road surfaces must play a bigger part in tire wear than I originally thought. If I can get 4-5k out of any set of tires I'm doing really good! Storms, Powers you gotta love that feel, but no milage.

 

[Fastfar]

Average 5K to a set, wear the sides out on front and rear from hard on the brakes in and hard on the throttle out as much as possible, my preferred roads are goaty, coarse, rough patched surfaces with more corners to the mile than paddle markers...I have run Z6's, M3's, the old Avon's and the Storms, same same except the Z6's sucked, maybe 3500 miles...My roomie is a trackday photographer and is now providing me with track take-offs so I will be experimenting with different tires for awhile, at least til my un-employment situation improves...

 

[madmike2]

As you can see, there is no normal.

There are just too many variables from riding style to roads ridden to surface coarseness.

I'll quote a great line from a riding friend:

"Tires are a wear item, why not try them all and see what you like?" BikeEffects

Personally, the PR2s have been the best for me, mileage and acceptable handling. I'm not a "hooligan" rider and not nearly as aggressive as I once was.

I will run the tires well into "flat spot rear" because of the amount of freeway driving I do while commuting. This means that corner transitions on back roads and freeway off ramps must be taken at less than "brisk" pace but it works for me. As with Dcarver, I'll put a new set on before a long trip.

I've not tried the Dunlop Roadsmarts and probably will not.

OEM Metzlers: 5,000 miles

'Stone 021's: 3500 miles, rear flat spotted, front V-shaped.

Avons (different iterations) lasted my "normal" 6000 miles.

Michelin PRs: 6500-7500 miles, normally changed set

Michelin PR2s (installed for NAFO in July 2008):

rear, 9600 miles and probably had another 1500 miles to wear bars.

front, currently 13425 miles with a Pilot Power 2ct rear @ 3810 miles.

The current set of tires will be replaced by the set of Michelin PR2s I have in the garage. I think I've found MY tire of choice for MY style of riding. Commuting, fun day trips and over-nights in the CA mountains and coast, FJR meets, etc.

 

[trmn8er]

I go through them evenly. I got 13,701 miles out my metzlers (cord showing). I am on a pair of Roadsmarts now and have about 9000 miles on them so far and I think I might be able to make it to 11,000. I do most (95%) of my miles on the freeway.

I too get great miles out of my tires. I got 9600 out of the original set, both front and rear were about even. I have PR2's now, and have 8,000 miles on them and they look like I will get another 1 or 2 k easy. I live 20 minutes from the Mountains, and spend a lot of time riding in the incredible mountain roads, so no, these are NOT freeway miles. IMHO, a lot of it is proper inflation. I check tire pressure often. I am not easy on my tires, and not light at 240, and yet I still get great miles out of my tires. I ride with mostly Sport Bikes, and so I am not taking it easy on them per se.

Not sure why some people here are getting so few miles. I hear some comment they are hard braking, hard accel out of turns. Perhaps this is some of the reason. I have done track days, and was always taught to be smooth. Quite honestly, I do not use my brakes much in the Mountains. My brakes look like new with 18,000 miles on them. Just my 02 cents....

 

[FJRBluesman]

I'm easy on the throttle and usually go thru on average 1.5 fronts to a rear.

 

[Rolavine]

Just noticed today the wear bars are flat on my rear roadsmart. I'll prob. put another 500 on it before replacement, I got 8K out of the front, looks like about 8,500 out of the rear. I have a Dunlop 220 rear in the garage, its next. I hope someone has another closeout sale soon I'm going to have to start buying them by the dozen.

 

[sullivan]

6k front oem 021

10k rear, still running

Going to Dunlop for rear, due soon