Rear Tyre - How many miles??

[GSmonkey]

One annoying this is that the Anakees don't have wear indicators on them - which is one of the reason why I keep staring at it wondering whether its legal. Suppose I should get a depth guage thingy.

Do all the tourances/anakee/trialwings etc. not have wear indicators?? Piss poor design.

 

[Deleted Member MM]

Just blown a rear Anakee to almost illegal in 3k. Mainly round town work, lots of traffic light grand prix.

What's everybody else getting on the 12GS's rear tyres??

2800 miles & it's shot.. fronts probably got around 1,000 miles left

 

[smartrider]

020s Rear lasted just over 6000 miles, changed becouse it was getting squared off, although still well legal, 2nd rear lasted just over 4000 miles and got a puncture, just changed front and rear ( so front has done over 10000 miles and is still legal and well in shape.
But I have gone back to a pair of tourances Cheaper, last longer, and the grip is plenty for me.

 

[TheJoker]

One annoying this is that the Anakees don't have wear indicators on them - which is one of the reason why I keep staring at it wondering whether its legal. Suppose I should get a depth guage thingy.

My Anakees sure had wear indicators on them - they're very small, and hard to spot, but they are there. Try feeling for them rather than looking..?

 

[clerici]

Tourances - both OK after 9k miles - a little squared off due to motorway miles

 

[Brian ROSEN]

Tyre wear

It is very difficult to make a true comparison unless it is done by the same rider in more or less the same conditions. There are some riders who will only get a third of the mileage of others and some manage to cover a phenomenal distance - it is all obviously a question of the type of mileage (town, country, off road) you cover and very much more your style of riding. If you don't get at least 5,000 from a rear tyre then I suggest that you are 'pushing it a bit !' Brian

 

[Brian ROSEN]

Rear tyre wear

I should have added, of course, that there can be a huge difference between wear in winter -almost neglible in icy conditions and that during a hot summer. So if you ride all the year round you are bound to average more than the bloke who waits for a hot sunny day. Brian

 

[GSmonkey]

My Anakees sure had wear indicators on them - they're very small, and hard to spot, but they are there. Try feeling for them rather than looking..?

Yep - found 'em. Still got a bit to go by all accounts based on the indicators.

 

[(RIP) Geriatric Germ]

It's all academic really. If you look to buy a car, for example and you need to ask what it does to the gallon, then you probably can't afford it.
With any bike tyres it depends on your riding style, gentle out of bends, squirt it out (all GS's love that ) Motorway? FFS who rides m/ways. will always Square a tyre. If you want all round honest wear, so that there is the same tread depth all over the tyres, then you gotta ride it like it's meant to be rid, not as a sunday afternoon cruiser, and if you get more than 4.5k miles out of a rear, you are a pussycat 4.6 out of a front and gawdblimey your on the road to Caution Especially with BM's, when sometimes you need to show the Jap Crap the way to do it, Come on you guys , let's talk about MPG, or how long you spent cleaning the thing after every outing to the local biker breakfast bar on a dry Sunday lunchtime.
Get a life, get out early, ride the tit's of the bike and the tyres, get the adrenalin flowing, scare yourself and your mates now and then, but above all Ride the Bloody thing sensibly and to the best of your ability. Enjoy it while you can, cos legislation will soon prohibit what little freedom we got left.
When I started a Tiger 100 was good for 100MPH, a Tiger 110 good for 110 MPH. No bone domes, shirt sleeves, shorts, a georgeous bird on the back, petrol syphoned from the local cinema car park, bald tyres and speedos that didn't work to tell you how many miles before they burst, cos that's when you fitted a new second hand one. Bikers my arse, you lot don't know your born. I blame your ancestors for Voting the Wrong Way

 

[stumpi]

Fitted my TKCs at 5300, the bike is at 6000 now and if the rear makes another 1000 I'll be EXTREMELY suprised, at 700 miles it is without doubt, half gone.

 

[Emperor Norton]

Rubbed square my Dunlop 607 at 5.2 k mi - with bad conscience. Should have thrown it off 1000 mi earlier. Poor road conditions, commuting mostly w/ panniers on and pillion.

 

[Mouse]

I see Rob C's little outburst didn't divert the flow of conversation at all!

 

[GSmonkey]

RobC - I think I have ridden the tits off it, hence the 3k rear I've never got more than 4k out of any tyres owned to date - admittedly I've always had the more sporting biased tyres. I certainly don't do anything to gain extra life from my tyres, other than riding with tyres I should have changed a few hundred miles ago like we all do.

The reason for the post was to determine whether people are getting similar low milages from their tyres and who might of switched from anakees to tourance and got 4.5k rather than 3k for the same levels of grip.

I'm sure we could all get 10k out of a set of anakees, but you'd be bored stiff doing it

 

[Cestria]

I'm sure we could all get 10k out of a set of anakees, but you'd be bored stiff doing it [/B]

Hear , hear! Its a motorbike, not a shopping trolley!