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one of the things that endeared me early to MCN reviews was that they tend to give useful information that most others neglect, stuff like valve adjust intervals and cost for typical procedures. A few stats near and dear to the road burners among us tho are range, max available load, and tire life.
Range you can usualy find (some day I'm really going to have to find the spell-check on this board, sorry) or calculate.
Max load is sometimes given (and rather eye opening at that, my KLR
will carry about the same as a wing I believe and the King a good hundred pounds more), and tire life. Now tire life, like
milage varies but like milage, having some type of range would be helpful. A mag testing a bike likely won't know because they don't have the bike long enough but some polling of reader's would. Bikes vary,
rider's ride varies, and tires varies but I think all to often
that becomes an excuse for some basic parameters in the bikes design. So I'm curious: for the bikes/rubber you run, how long to you typically get? Me of late:
-King '04/ 10K rear, 25K+ front and still going strong (stock dunlops)
-KLR '00/ 4-5 rear, front more like double that (gripsters)
I do something like 10-15K a year on average so I tend to notice this perhaps more than most but what have you found?
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I average about 7 to 8,000 miles a yr on my '01 Superglide T-sport (35 miles so far)so as of late I get:
10-12K from rear and 25K front. I use stock dunlops. I did get 14K from the factory rear, but now only 10-12K. Seems like we get about the same mileage wear on our HD's. When I changed my front tire at 26K it still had decent tread wear left, but decided to change it when I did the 2nd rear.
dexo54
'01 FXDX/T
dexo54
'01 FXDX/T
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Both my Suzuki 650 Tempter and my Honda Helix seemed to get about 5000 miles on the rears and about 10000 on the fronts. As a matter of interest, the Suzuki went through a set of OEM front brake pads quicker than it did its front tire. My only bike now is a KLR650, and with 5500 miles its back tire is getting near the wear bars.
The length of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding.
Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future.
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| My '92 FLHS gets about 14-15,000 on the rear tire and 25,000+ on the front. Brand doesn't seem to matter.
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The best tire mileage I've ever had was on a 2001 Kawasaki W650. I replaced the original Bridgestones at 4000 miles with Dunlop Elite IIs, a touring type tire. They were in pretty good shape with 23 K miles on them. I changed them out at the beginning of a long trip rather than do so on the road, but I suspect they had another 2K or so left.
At 12K miles the Elite IIs were about half worn out when I sold the bike. By half I mean the original tread depth was halfway to 2/32" from the original depth measurement.
The legal minimum here in MN is 2/32" and that's about all I want to go to still have good traction in the rain.
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I too had a 2001 W650 and got about the same
milage on the stock tire. I replaced them
(can't remember with what) and sold it at 15K
and it was doing fine (never should have done that tho, 'really miss the kick start,
among other things).
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