Uneven front tyre wear

[mpgscott]

Anyone else experienced uneven wear on the front tyre??

Mine is a 2011 R1200GS without any toys so no EXP or ABS just as she comes.

I will get a pic and post it up, but the right side seems to be wearing faster than the left and i cant say its mainly right handers on my routes...

Any thoughts as normal much appretiated.

Be swapping over to a PR4 for the front fairly soon, thats the rear one done around 3K and so far really happy.

 

[MWH]

Had that on conventional USD forks. Turned out the spring in side one leg had detached itself from the top adjuster.

I know GS's are different but they have a small amount of sliding up the top at the yoke, maybe something is sticking in these tubes?

 

[TLSgazza]

Road camber, simples.

 

[MikeO]

Road camber, simples.

Whereabouts on the road are you riding? Camber will not affect tyre wear...

 

[mpgscott]

Pic of how the tyre is wearing.

 

[Nick dj]

Me too

I have experienced this on all three of my GS`s I think its just down to the way the forks work and the tread flexes.
We all have a preference for banking the bike so it will wear more that side too.
It`s a shame that the tyres have a set rotation as changing it would even out wear.

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

Roundabouts ?

 

[DGB]

The radius on right hand turns is larger than left hand turns so your speed is greater. This leads to increased wear or so I've been told in the past.

 

[mpgscott]

Ideal, so nothing to worry about then??

Cheers for the posts..

 

[(RIP) Miff]

Maybe you ride harder (or are more confident) on right hand bends?

 

[Nice 'n' Fat]

My GSA wears the front tyre like that too

 

[Greenman14]

I don't think this is a feature of the GS, all my bikes have done this. I had assumed it was road camber? Maybe there are some odd folks around who ride on the wrong side of the road can comment?

 

[Bendy toy]

I think it's road camber and RH bends usually have a better line of sight so speeds are higher.

 

[Packer]

It's because you're in the northern hemisphere. South of the equator it would wear on the other side.

 

[Streetbike]

CW Motorcycles pointed this out to me as well, last Wednesday when my bike was in for service. My front tyre looks exactly the same as in the picture, Tourance Next, correct pressure. Strange thing is that I ride harder in left handers than right handers. Very strange.

 

[beatmeier]

I don't think this is a feature of the GS, all my bikes have done this. I had assumed it was road camber? Maybe there are some odd folks around who ride on the wrong side of the road can comment?

totally agree and also that if you do small roads the right-handers offer a bit more vision on the exit so you go on the throttle a bit more confident. Was riding twenty years on the other side of the road mostly alpine passes and had the pattern on the left, since I'm in Ireland on the right.

if you think the bike has a fault there is lots that take it of you

 

[macmanx]

It's all the overtaking on the Inverness to Aberdeen run!
You going to be home at the start of May?

 

[mpgscott]

Not sure at the moment, might be over in Norway what dates are you over whats the plan??

 

[Bendy toy]

totally agree and also that if you do small roads the right-handers offer a bit more vision on the exit so you go on the throttle a bit more confident. Was riding twenty years on the other side of the road mostly alpine passes and had the pattern on the left, since I'm in Ireland on the right.

if you think the bike has a fault there is lots that take it of you

My brother took a Diversion 600 into the Alps. Exactly the same. Back in UK at tyre change MOT time the mech was stunned to see so much shoulder tread wear with relatively little central wear. It was worn more on the left.
My GS (used in UK) wears RHS shoulder before LHS.
Road cambers have got to make a difference. I regularly make a LH T junction turn- often there is no traffic so I swing out and crank the bike over often just touching left boot down. The camber is very much to the left. I still have a wider chicken strip in left than on right.

 

[macmanx]

Not sure at the moment, might be over in Norway what dates are you over whats the plan??

Heading up from Perth on the 3rd, same way as when we met you in Grantown. then will be doing days out from Inverness and then heading back down south on Thursday 7th.