morganfrmn

24000 miles is a lot of miles on a motorcycle... thats a year and a half of riding for me and I ride all the time... most people cant put 24000 miles on a bike in a lifetime... it is very hard to believe...I have heard people say they got 10k out of a 300 dollar tire... But i have never heard 24k.... I have a 2008 rstd, and I weight 310 lbs... I have a constant average of 7k miles.... no matter which tire i use... I go through 2 rear tires and 1 front tire per year.... In fact I will go as far to say the rstd is very hard on tires.... especially the rear... I go through so many rear tires I actually have bought a spare rear wheel, to make changing rear tires easier... In fact I just changed a rear tire 2 weeks ago... and I have already put 2100 miles on the new one... ( I went to florida and back) I check my air preasure every other day... I put in 41 lbs... Someone said 48, but I have never heard anyone say that... I think that is over the recomended way over.

all tires last the same amount on the rear no matter what. I have went through a bunch of brands, and all i get out of a rear tire is 7k miles... right now i have a metzler 880 on... it replaced a cheng or one of those asian named tires. the asian tire lasted 7000 miles it had replaced a dunlop, that lasted 7000 miles. The asian tire was half the price of the others... I noticed the cheap asian tire, made me feel as if my butt was stuck to the road... the mechanic said that was because it was made of cheap soft sticky rubber and that was why it was no good.... it actually had another 1000 miles left on it but it had gotten a nail... where the dunlop was slick at 7000 miles...Now the sidewalls were soft on the asian tire. The metzler i have on now, has such hard sidewalls that i think if i had a flat i would not know it.... So I believe your choice is not based on miles per tire... but on three things.... cost... stuck to the road.... or hard sidewalls for flat safety... those are your real choices... and honestly your probably better off with a cheap tire that is stuck to the road....