Travels with a Tourance?

[alecmuffett]

I'd like to run this past a few people as a sanity-check:

My front Tourance is shagged; my rear has maybe 2500 left on it, it's squared off from motorway riding but has a good few mill.

I am due to ride down to the Alps in a few weeks time, probably about 700 down, 400 in the mountains, and 900 looping back.

How about I buy a pair, get the front swapped and take the rear home; then bungee the rear to the bike and take it with me, bunging someone a few euros to fit it for me once I'm down south, carefully scrubbing it in when in the Alps?

I doubt I'd be the first GSer to haul a spare tyre with me ( har har ) and it'd guarantee availability of a replacement in France.

...but is there anything wrong with this idea?

 

[enabb]

Or get em both fitted before you go, keep the old rear for when the great tourance drought strikes again

 

[Stumpy]

Wouldn't it be easier to have a new pair fitted, leave the part worn tyre at home and fit it at a later date when the "new" rear has worn.

Or check the price of a new rear in the country you are going to and have one supplied and fitted there. I remember the last time I was in Spain having a rear fitted at a BMW dealer for cheaper than I could get a mail order one at home.

if you take the tyre with you are you going to take it into every cafe and hotel along the way incase it gets nicked?

Stumpy

 

[alecmuffett]

Very sensible comments - I suppose what I've been a bit stuck on has been the idea of avoiding squaring-off the new tyre on the run south, since it struck me as being a bit of a shame to do so...

that said, they're very good points you raise. hmmmm...

 

[GS TRV]

I just put a new pair of Tourances on last night at a Tyre shop in Naples - 190 Euro balanced & fitted!!

If you're coming down sth to Naples, I'll give you the number.

 

[GSmonkey]

I always like a fresh set of tyres for a good tour - makes things all the more fun. To avoid them getting squared off on the way down, take a twisty route rather than the autoroutes. Anyhow, you don't get much squaring in 700 miles.

 

[JayGee]

Why not get new ones when you're in France, on our last trip a guy with a TDM got tyres cheaper there than we buy them.

 

[Shep]

I always like a fresh set of tyres for a good tour - makes things all the more fun. To avoid them getting squared off on the way down, take a twisty route rather than the autoroutes. Anyhow, you don't get much squaring in 700 miles.

Totally agree with this Unlikely to square off that quickly and newer tyres get less punctures

Shep