Amazing how fast the last bit of tire leaves.

[2012cliff]

Maybe I want better value for my money. The first street bike I had was a 650 yamaha. I could gat 20 thou on a yokahama tire. I could make a trip and not have to try and replace a tire on the road. It is getting very hard to have an enjoyable trip if after 1000miles into it you have to start looking for a dealer who can replace a tire you need to get home. This last excedra max lasted 8 thou miles.
If i had left home for British Columbia at 5000 miles on the tire I would not have made it home without a tire change.
Our dealers may not even have the tire size we need, let alone choice of tire.

 

[Tripps]

Barely made it home from the Bennington Bash.

 

[mexican]

Barely made it home from the Bennington Bash.

That is a perfect exemple of a wasted tire, only 2 inches in the center touch the pavement, the rest of the tire still in great shape

 

[Tripps]

That's what happens when you live in the flatlands and ride thruway.

 

[mexican]

That's what happens when you live in the flatlands and ride thruway.

I know what you mean, if you noticed, when you were here in Tulsa there are no curves, have to ride an hour away to find some twisties, Kansas is ever worse

 

[40mmrrsmith]

Maybe I want better value for my money. The first street bike I had was a 650 yamaha. I could gat 20 thou on a yokahama tire. I could make a trip and not have to try and replace a tire on the road. It is getting very hard to have an enjoyable trip if after 1000miles into it you have to start looking for a dealer who can replace a tire you need to get home. This last excedra max lasted 8 thou miles.
If i had left home for British Columbia at 5000 miles on the tire I would not have made it home without a tire change.
Our dealers may not even have the tire size we need, let alone choice of tire.

My first legal street motorcycle was a Yamaha Maxim 650. It was my only bike and I rode it everyday, as hard as I possibly could. I bought a rear tire every other year. Fast forward thirty years I have multiple cages multiple bikes (although for some reason I try to take the RIII everyday) I am now purchasing three rear tires for the RIII yearly. I know the factors that contribute to tire wear, I know it was a lighter less powerful machine. But so what? Tires are made to last 40-100 thousand miles on a vehicle with double the torque, three to four times the weight of any motorcycle. There have been many developments in the car tire industry over just the last 20 years. There are substances put into the rubber compound that make the tire grip better and last longer without having to make the tire softer or harder etc. etc. Car manufacturers do not put all of this technology and development into motorcycle tires because it is not cost efficient as compared to the enormous sales of car tires. Plus why should they when they have so many happy idiots willing to pay $300 two, three or four times a year for a motorcycle tire with 20-plus year old technology.
P.S. you're correct about the dealers every time I have needed a tire no one has had that tire in stock. And they never will.

 

[2012cliff]

I am with you on this. I wish one of the manufacturers would use the same componds on a mororcycle tire as they do in car tires. Also if they could make the tire with more of a contact patch. Wouldn't have to be as much as a car tire , but more than a dedicated sport racing bike.

 

[IMFASTTOO]

My first legal street motorcycle was a Yamaha Maxim 650. It was my only bike and I rode it everyday, as hard as I possibly could. I bought a rear tire every other year. Fast forward thirty years I have multiple cages multiple bikes (although for some reason I try to take the RIII everyday) I am now purchasing three rear tires for the RIII yearly. I know the factors that contribute to tire wear, I know it was a lighter less powerful machine. But so what? Tires are made to last 40-100 thousand miles on a vehicle with double the torque, three to four times the weight of any motorcycle. There have been many developments in the car tire industry over just the last 20 years. There are substances put into the rubber compound that make the tire grip better and last longer without having to make the tire softer or harder etc. etc. Car manufacturers do not put all of this technology and development into motorcycle tires because it is not cost efficient as compared to the enormous sales of car tires. Plus why should they when they have so many happy idiots willing to pay $300 two, three or four times a year for a motorcycle tire with 20-plus year old technology.
P.S. you're correct about the dealers every time I have needed a tire no one has had that tire in stock. And they never will.

SO your saying they are purposely designing the tires so they wear out fast hmmm so if one company would make a long lasting tire they would corner the market .

 

[breeze]

Barely made it home from the Bennington Bash.

and youre going to say that carp. kit has nothing to do with that?

 

[Sensfan]

(do they have paved roads in Canada)

Mericans...we drive around on the ice from igloo to igloo dodging polar bears..lol. I can tell you that due to our climate, our asphalt designs are different from yours in Florida, plus the frost beating up the roads does make them rougher, so I wouldn't expect to get the same mileage as down south. When I saw my bike for the first time, I knew I wasn't buying it for high fuel mileage, long lasting tires and brakes, I just accept it for what it is and enjoy it regardless, but I do agree with others, considerably longer lasting tires would be harder and not as sticky