This thing eats tires........
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This thing eats tires........ - 7/8/2007 6:53:07 PM
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meanstrk
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Ok now. This is getting rediculous. I bought this bike back in, what? April? It had 1800 miles on it. I now have a bit over 6300 miles on it, so in 4500 miles I have gone through:
3 sets of Dunlop Qualifiers (Less than 1000 per set)
1 set of Dunlop 208 GPA's (about 300 miles of track time only)
1 set of Pilot Powers (1200 or so miles of Deals Gap mountain riding)
And I just mounted up another set of Pilot Powers tonight due to my last set of Qualifiers showing cord on the rear on today's ride.
I am seriously debating about trying a set of Diablo Stradas, which I run on my Aprilia, just to see what would happen. Stradas are excellent on my Aprilia and SV and they were great when I had my Bandit 1200 also, so why not? I am all out of Qualifiers finally, (Thank God!) and Pilot Powers last longer anyways, but this thing is just killing tires! Maybe I can stop turning that twisty thing on the right hand bar so much??
All I know is that for a weekend only blaster, the tire bill is putting a hurting on my checkbook!
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 1:04:49 AM
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Dunlop is known for having a softer compound rubber in their tires.. The factory Bridgestone Battlax Qualifier tires that come on the '07 CBR are some very decent tires from what I've heard.. Relatively inexpensive as well.. Check it out...
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 1:10:00 AM
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maybe it's just me but it's hard to believe you went thru 5sets of tires in 4800miles...
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 3:09:40 AM
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Maybe it's your riding style? Standing burnouts? Aggressive downshifting? Jackrabbit starts?
I've only gone through 2 tires in 9,000 miles. And yes, I ride rather aggressive about 50% of the time with a track day or two thrown in for good measure. The original rear tire got a screw in it at 2,500 miles, but I still had about 1500-2000 miles left on it. Replaced that with a Dunlop Qualifier and put 6,500 miles on it. I just replaced my front and rear a couple weeks ago with a set of Qualifiers. The rear was just about to go bald in the middle wear, and the front (which was still original) was starting to crack a little, so I figured it was time.
I don't know how you ride, but I seems like that is a little extreme to be going through that many SETS of tires for street riding.
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 5:48:41 AM
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That seems very extreme to me. I certainly couldn't afford that either. My first sets of
tires have averaged about 1 mm of wear per 1000 miles, giving each set about 6000 miles each. I do not ride aggresively however, and no track days yet.
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 5:58:54 AM
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meanstrk
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I do ride EXTREMELY hard out on the back roads, which is why I go through tires. Don't do burnouts at all and usually start pretty tame from a dead stop. Mainly it is from triple digit back road blasting, knee down at 100plus that wears em out
I am notorious for being hard on tires no matter what bike I am on, but it seems that I go through them even faster on the RR. Maybe it's simply because the only time I am riding it is WFO most of the time..... My Bandit 1200 did not even go through them this bad, but then, part of it is due to trying to get rid of my stock of these crap ass Qualifiers.
No way in hell I would use a bridgestone tire either. Particularly not those Crapaxe biscuits they call tires...
Oh well....... I envision the CBR going away next year in order to make room for another Aprilia anyways....
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 6:16:11 AM
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Sounds badass. lol
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 6:46:40 AM
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is your suspension set up properly? that can seriously affect tire wear, otherwise your paying the price of going fast
what bike your on isn't going to change wearing tires much, I go through a set a weekend racing my SV
also, I don't know about the rest of their tires but Bridgestones BT-002's are great tires, I used them for over a year on my F4i and they were plenty sticky and held up longer than most of the others I'd tried
if your looking for super sticky tires that heat up fast but still stick good while they're cold and last a long time your screwed, its always a compromise
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 9:43:03 AM
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first off...you really need to slow down in backroads...you don't know what's out there and judging from your tire wear, you leave very little room for error.
the stradas will get you better mileage but you aren't going to get the stick you want riding as hard as you do. i'm not sure of your riding style either...are you late brake and throw bike down type or are you smooth type?
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 10:32:34 AM
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Dunlop is known for having a softer compound rubber in their tires.. The factory Bridgestone Battlax Qualifier tires that come on the '07 CBR are some very decent tires from what I've heard.. Relatively inexpensive as well.. Check it out...
i dont know about your bike but mine came with the dunlop qualifiers not the bridgestones
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 10:35:11 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: 1BadCBR07
Dunlop is known for having a softer compound rubber in their tires.. The factory Bridgestone Battlax Qualifier tires that come on the '07 CBR are some very decent tires from what I've heard.. Relatively inexpensive as well.. Check it out...
the 07 doesnt come with bridgestones it comes with dunlop qualifiers
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 12:31:35 PM
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meanstrk
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first off...you really need to slow down in backroads...
I was not asking for riding tips.........
BUT...... On the track I tend to late brake big time, while on the street I am more smooth and tend to not use the brakes as much.
Woody...... The rear is decent, but I still need to get springs for the front. I tend to push the front pretty hard because of this which is causing a good bit of the front tire wear. Most of the time it is ok for the street, but REALLY rears it's ugly head on the track.
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 3:33:38 PM
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1BadCBR07
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quote:
ORIGINAL: bjtoth1
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ORIGINAL: 1BadCBR07
Dunlop is known for having a softer compound rubber in their tires.. The factory Bridgestone Battlax Qualifier tires that come on the '07 CBR are some very decent tires from what I've heard.. Relatively inexpensive as well.. Check it out...
the 07 doesnt come with bridgestones it comes with dunlop qualifiers
Mine does have bridgestones on it from the factory....
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 4:03:28 PM
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Tahoe SC
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I was not asking for riding tips.........
i wasn't giving you any riding tips...i was calling it as it is. riding tip to follow.
it's not the tires, it's your riding style. you're eating tires faster than guys on liters who hit the canyons HAAAARRRRRRDDDDDDD...which means that aside from getting them boogers from taking turns fast, you're also spinning the rear...which means that your throttle is the culprit.
stop blaming the tire dude...
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RE: This thing eats tires........ - 7/9/2007 5:21:07 PM
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too_fast_4_my_bike
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tahoe you need to stop being a pansy.
meanstrk you need to stop riding like a girl.
my bike (orangey yellow 2000 cbr600 f4) went through 9 sets of tires in 2,500 miles! my motto is "ride or die". it's WFO on the throttle or bust for me mang!! i ride so EXTREMELY hard out in the canyons! i'm notorious for doing triple-digits even when i'm cutting through a big clowd of hardley riders or squeezing between opposing lanes of traffic on the double yellow. when i'm on the track, i late brake so HARD i leave blackies! that's why the steel belt shows through on my fronts after a hard weekend of riding! ps, when you ride as fast as i do, all that soft crap like pirelli and michelin sucks balls and goes away like eraser, so i roll with cheap-o recalled Cheng Shin tires. they can handle the abuse i put on them! i use them on my CBR600F4, my CBR600RR, my EX250, my Ducati 999 (which i'm swapping out for a 1099 btw), my Bimota, my Vespa, my R1, my Honda Ruckus, my Yamaha Zuma, my GSXR1000...
people like tahoe tell me to slow down all the time, but they're just noobs. i served in the boy scouts; the training and harsh experiences i endured out there have made me indestructable. so don't worry about me, just get out of my way in the canyons!
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