rear tire life

[Downs]

I've ridden pilot road 2s on the track on a FJR and they gripped just fine. Was dragging hard parts





Great all around tires unless you are constantly riding the living piss out of the bike or running them way too low on pressure lol

Same tires different set on the Dragon



BTW is that Husky a single? Single cylinder bikes tend to be pretty rough on back tires.

[Skidmark]

I want to go to the dragon one of these days!

[ram57ta]

Kind of crazy better traction in turns. The pilot powers are a lot softer.

Cool visual...

Could have been the fact that my Pilot Power was bald as fuck and cupped all the way around...plus road temps early in the day were in the 40's and only got up into the mid 70's at best in Eureka Springs. Toward the end of the last day as we were riding fast I started feeling the front end slipping in hard turns at +90 mph which scared the shit out of me so I took it back to the hotel and put it on the trailer.

[JasonRR]

I run around 30 front and rear on my supermoto and I guess about the same on my streetbikes. I honestly don't pay it much attention. I do a fair amount of burnouts and slides, so I don't expect more than 3k or so out of a rear. Fronts last quite a bit longer, and I'm pretty hard on them.

I run the Pilot 2CT on the back on the 954 and have Pirellis Dragon Supercorsa Pro SP2's on the front of both (never pushed or slid the front on either bike, not never).

[JasonRR]

I went out riding Wednesday night with a bunch of guys from supermotojunkie board and had a pretty damn good time. Some decent hooligan/urban action. You should try to come out one time with your Husky.

[lowthreeohz]

Dragging pegs isn't necessarily a good thing.

[futant]

yeah the husky is single cylinder, but I guess I don't see why that is necessarily worse for the tire.
i don't doubt for a second that i am hard on it though, it's pretty much stop light to light , lots of wheelies, hard launches, etc
im slipping the rear a lot more around corners , but i don't think that was the deal cause the middle is what wore our so fast.
had to be the low pressure. ...

[futant]

I went out riding Wednesday night with a bunch of guys from supermotojunkie board and had a pretty damn good time. Some decent hooligan/urban action. You should try to come out one time with your Husky.

Im down. got nothing else to do now im moved and can't work on shit.
bad part is my rear tire is needing replaced and it's gonna be a pain with no easy way to work on bike

[JasonRR]

Is the rear tire hard to change on that bike for some reason?

[futant]

Is the rear tire hard to change on that bike for some reason?

no. just don't have my tools , etc
plus im not sure if all shops would do it for me with the tubeless conversion done to it.
ill probably just take wheel off with minimal tools then take it somewhere to make it a little easier....

[JasonRR]

Well get it changed and let's go ride. I know where some of the spots are now, and there's actually some pretty cool terrain. If you need access to tools, you could bring it by my place and use mine. I got everything you could need. Just an option.

[Downs]

yeah the husky is single cylinder, but I guess I don't see why that is necessarily worse for the tire.

It's the way the engine delivers it's power. Go ride down a dirt road on a single and then a twin or a 4 cylinder. On the single you'll see where there's little "dig" spots in the ground every time the engine makes a power stroke especially when under throttle. The 4 cylinder or twin has closer spaced power strokes which makes life on the tire a bit easier.

Dragging pegs isn't necessarily a good thing.

On the FJR you'd drag pegs well before the bike was going to loose traction. It wasn't really fixable without raising the pegs then you'd drag the center stand and raised pegs equal not as good of a long distance bike for me.

[89stang]

on my pilot power 2cts iv gotten 1 track day along with 4 days at deals gap + 5k miles out of it

[beefed88]

Could have been the fact that my Pilot Power was bald as fuck and cupped all the way around...plus road temps early in the day were in the 40's and only got up into the mid 70's at best in Eureka Springs. Toward the end of the last day as we were riding fast I started feeling the front end slipping in hard turns at +90 mph which scared the shit out of me so I took it back to the hotel and put it on the trailer.

You should do a track day and practice some cornering.

[Downs]

You should do a track day and practice some cornering.

My tires look like that at the end of their service lives. The street isn't the track and I'm not willing to push the bike to use every last millimeter of tread surface. Track is different if I fuck up the paramedics are right there and there's plenty of run off room.

Not to mention you spend a lot more time upright on the street. I do 100 mile a day commute if I don't take any detours to work or back and it eats up the center of your tire pretty quick.