| Author | Message | ||
     Tempest766 |
Anyway, a month ago a had plenty of tread left and the wear indicators were still deeply recessed. One month and only 500 miles later the wear is just at the top of the higher wear indicators and I've got steel cord beginning to show through on the center of the tire. I don't ride twisties. Most of my riding is 70mph highway commuter riding. WTF!? Steel cord should NOT be that shallow, right? I'm experiencing exponential wear now. It's like the manufacturer only used the hard rubber on the outer surface and once I broke through then the softer inner rubber wears very fast. I'm good about keeping adequate pressure in the tires. | ||
| Falloutnl |
How many miles total? | ||
| Etennuly |
When it is done cut the tire open. You will be amazed at how thin the carcass is. | ||
| Tempest766 |
less than 3000 miles total...and I am not a sport rider. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Wear always accelerates as it progresses, less material to absorb heat and wear means faster material losses. I'm about to put a new PR4 on my S2. Its currently wearing a PR2....with about 9800 miles on it. I could probably get another 1k out of it, but am about to go on a 1k trip, and don't want to be away from home and have that "yeah...shoulda replaced it before I left" moment. | ||
| Ourdee |
I'm a Pirelli guy. | ||
| Froggy |
Road temperature will also affect tire wear, these hot days will eat a tire alive in no time, yet you can ride virtually all winter without any noticeable wear. | ||
| Reepicheep |
I can wear out a tire more in one weekend in the mountains then I can in an entire season here in Ohio... so what you are doing and where you are doing it can change the wear rate by a few orders of magnitude easily. | ||
| Tempest766 |
western pa...pittsburgh interstates...and hilly rough rural two lane roads connecting all these little run down steel/mining towns. I run about 36psi in the rear and 34 to 36 in the front. I just think it was a crappy brand. I bought it based on price (right around 110 buckazoids, iirc) | ||
| Steveford |
Switch to Michelin, you'll be happy you did. Long wear, great grip, no problems. | ||
| Tootal |
On my shortened vacation I did get five days on a new set of Michelin PR4's. We rode 90 percent straight roads getting to the Black Hills and finally got to wear most of the chicken strips off. It took a long time just to wear the little spikes off! They still look new and performed great. They turn in much quicker than the PR2's! I really liked them all around. Fortunately we only had a little wet roads in our way but never any rain so can't speak to that yet. | ||
| Tempest766 |
RE-Michelin My previous rear tire was a PR2 at the end of their product run and was cheap. It did better but still fell short of expectations. I think it wouldn't pass inspection at about 6000 miles...I could be wrong but that number sticks out in my mind. |
