Longest Mileage on Tires:

[AimlessMoto]

Just curious, what's the highest mileage you've run 1 set of tires?
I'm getting some new rubber spooned on tomorrow (Conti Road Attack II) and after checking my books, I realized I really piled the miles on in about a year's time.

Brand, front mileage, rear mileage, how old the tires were, condition:

Metzler Tourance
-Front and Rear: 6600 miles, 9 years old, hard as plastic.

Michelin Pilot Road
- Rear 11,000 miles, 1 year old, dry rot, tread pulling apart.
- Front 17,000 miles, 1 year 2 months old, slight scalloping.

[DucDave]

holy chit man...

I have been trying different tires for years now on 3 different Ducs. An ST2, 2007 Multi and a 2010 Multi. Best I've gotten on rear was 6700 miles on Dunlop Road Smarts. Everything else is about 5k...Period.

BTW, the fronts almost always look good but I change em anyway. So, can't say what kind of mileage I'd get.

However, Michelin Pilot CT, Roads fronts always introduce a weird low speed wobble about the time I replace the rears. Not sure why that is...other brands don't.

Some day I'll put together a chart of all the tires I've tried and the mileage.

[nhbubba]

Isn't the bike and how its ridden a huge set of variables here? If you get 10k out of a tire on a gixxah pulling wheelies and riding aggressively all day, I'm impressed. If you get 10k out of a tire on a 250 used by a bean-pole for easy commuting, well, not so much.

No?

[markbvt]

I've gotten up to about 12k miles on a front Bridgestone Battlewing, and close to that on a front Shinko 705, both on my Wee-Strom. The Shinko, being a 70/30 tire, had started to chisel a bit, but could have easily gone another few thousand miles, but I sold the bike to my dad and put a set of Battlewings on for him.

Best I've gotten out of a rear tire, though, is a little over 8000 miles (the original Bridgestone Trailwing that came on the Strom). I also had nearly 8000 miles on the rear Battlewing on my Tiger when I pulled it off a couple of weeks ago; it could have gone at least another thousand miles, maybe 2000, but I wanted to put on more dirt-oriented tires.

FWIW, I'm 6'4"/260, so I'm fairly hard on tires.

--mark

[NobodySpecific]

I used to be a huge fan of the different Contis (first Road Attack then the ContiMotion) but I think I'm officially off of that bandwagon now. I had a Road Attack front that cupped so badly that it would induce nasty headshake, and there was still tons of life left on the tire. I replaced it with a Pilot Power 2CT, and I've been a Michelin fan since. I kept trying ContiMotion rears, but on the Sprint they just don't work. I can get 5-6k out of them, but they flat spot pretty badly and go from OK to done very quickly. I now have a matching set of Pilot Road 2s that I expect to last 7-8k on the rear. The front has 5-6k on it right now and is wearing very well.

[JayWalk]

Just changed my rear @ 11k. Front still looks great. Dunlop Roadsmart.

[RandyO]

I got about 8k on my V-strom1000 rear tire (general altimax artic) and expect at least 25k if not 40k, I know of other darksiders that have got over 100k on a rear

most I ever got out of a rear MC tire is 13k, that was a Avon Azaro ST on my SV650

[CBR929RE]

I had over 10k on a set of Pilot Powers and they looked and felt great before I chucked the bike down the road. I thought I was a quick road rider back then too but of course I don't weigh anything either.

right now my NTECs have been on the race bike for a long time. had two fast expert races on them when I bought them. front has been on for every dry race/practice (missed 1 practice this weekend) and 4 track days, rear has been on for all but I think 2 practices and 1 track day. 3 races a weekend, 1 being a GT. still going strong.

I will be giving tire management clinics every time I am at the track

[Rusty the Scoob]

I've put 17,200 miles so far on my rear Pilot Power and it's very flat-spotted but not down to the wear bars yet. The front PP lasted around 15k before failing MA inspection this spring.

2002 SV650, 155lb rider, mostly commuting miles to and from Boston.

[AimlessMoto]

I'm no track-day guy... so all my mileage is hard street... 500lb bike, 220lb rider, 2 up a lot, full bags a lot, wheelies daily almost... +80 daily... a dozen or two times topping out the bike...

So, 16k and 11k are really damn good on a big-ass dual sport.

I'd expect anyone who does a track day to get below 6000 miles out of a tire. That's kind of a given.

[nhbubba]

I never paid much attention, but I don't think I ever got more than 5k out of a rear tire on my old 1200. I have never known enough about tires to even remember what they were, except that they were "sport touring" models.

[patatty]

I've gotten a little over 18K out of a set of Pirelli Diablo Stradas on my 2000 ZRX. Currently have just under 10K on a set of Angels and there is plenty of life left in them.

Yes, most of my riding is commuting; a 130 mile minimum r/t commute to work. When I am lucky and have some time, I will stretch the ride home to well over 100 miles on back roads. More often than not, however, they tend to be rather mellow miles.

[thirdgenlxi]

I usually get around 18-20k out of a rear Pilot Road 2, and 13k out of a front Pilot Power or Pilot Pure. That was with one trackday, the rest fairly easy commuting and mountain rides