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tire wear

  1. ramble

    Average tire wear expectancy

    This may have been covered but my search didn't help . One up rider, how many miles should I expect on the RT.
  2. N

    Dunlop Road Smart 3 tires AKA tire thread #2372-106A

    Well Well Well I see these Dunlop Road Smart 3 Ads Claiming 12,000 + miles, Ha! What a load of you know what. I did a 420 mile Western Colorado loop Wed and when I got home the rear was worn past the tread layer into a lower layer and the front was worn to where the wear bars are flush. Mileage...
  3. stooie

    Tire Wear - 2018 RT

    Holy smokes! I'm down to the wear bar on the rear Michelin PR4GT at only 4,000 miles. I ride almost exclusively on country backroads that are chipseal vs. the smoother (and presumably kinder to tires) asphalt on more heavily traveled roads. On my previous FJR I got about 6500 miles on their...
  4. J

    R1150 RT alignment check - verification??

    Last summer I hit an unbelievably bad totally unmarked railroad track in Illinois, and I fear my RT may be out of alignment. The road had a drop of several inches in front of the rail, I swear the back end of the bike came off the ground. I always slow WAY down for unknown railroad tracks, I'd...
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