TIRES TIRES TIRES

[ruouthere]

I don't see how anything could be much better then the OEM Stones that came with the bike.Handle great wet or dry and give pretty decent mileage for motorcycle tires.

I agree, ran them on both of my GL1800 Gold Wings with a combined 120,000 miles. Great tire under all road and weather conditions with and w/o pulling my trailer two up. I averaged approx. 10K out of each set but I tended to replace a little early to be safe.

[CoCoKola]

darn, I have 6k now and didn't realize I was past 50% of the life of the tire.. at least I know what to get now..

[naga viper]

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8000.miles I had high hopes for 10k or more.I guess my need for acceleration shows.
but my mpg's have been awesome!
I will be changing out most likely this weekend! Not worth a bad day over trying to get more miles out of it.

[srt8-in-largo]

How are you guys getting this kind of mileage out of the stock tires? This is after 9700 miles.

8000.miles I had high hopes for 10k or more.I guess my need for acceleration shows.
but my mpg's have been awesome!
I will be changing out most likely this weekend! Not worth a bad day over trying to get more miles out of it.

You guys are wearing your tires WAY too thin, seriously.

Those tires are hydroplane city. Hydroplaning on a bike usually means death or serious injury.

[CoCoKola]

You guys are wearing your tires WAY too thin, seriously.

Those tires are hydroplane city. Hydroplaning on a bike usually means death or serious injury.

so how many miles would you go, or at what point of wear?

[srt8-in-largo]

1/16" absolute minimum. I start looking for new tires at 2/16".

[Madmax]

Took my new to the darksided 2013 F6b for a run over the holiday weekend to the NJ shore ... The intended purpose of my F6B is a highway machine , I have other bikes for back road knee dragging , tire sliding bikes .
I could never see putting a car tire on any of the light weight bike , as for the Goldwing series bikes can't imagine going back to a cycle tire on that machine .
I was running 32 psi but have had the tire aired up to 42 adds a bit more crown to the tire for more back road riding ... you can still do the back roads with the darkside tire .
Just my 2cents .