Tire Data for MICHELIN HYDRO-EDGE....
During our monthly luncheon yesterday, we got to talking about, what else, TIRES.... here's an email i sent to our Master of Ceremonies:
John;
Per our talk yesterday about our rear tire, the MICHELIN HYDRO-EDGE....
as i stated then, this tire was designed to be rated @ 80,000 miles... as we know, the SPYD3R eats up tires faster than cars do, so we shouldn't expect 80,000 miles of service from these... as a base, using the stats i've accumulated from the KUMHO's that we all know and love, that tire is rated @ 40,000 mile life... i got between 22K & 25K from the 4 that i've used on my RS (3) & F3 (1)....
so using that as our base, and with the info i just gathered on my F3's HYDRO-EDGE, here's what i expect from this tire:
HYDRO-EDGE THREAD DEPTH: NEW, .300... @ 9,371 miles, it now has a depth of .275... Wear Bars are @ .250 below NEW tire O.D... this means we have .250 of rubber to burn up before we hit the Wear Bars, and need to R&R the rear tire...
given that i now have over 9K miles of smiles on this tire, using up .025 of rubber, these numbers tell me that we can expect no less than 45,000 and maybe as high as 50,000 miles of smiles before we start searching the web for a new donut.... that 45/50K brings us to approximately the same ratio of wear that the KUMHO's gave us... so in the future, keep this in mind when looking for a rear tire....
another note to consider; the KUMHO cost me about $65, and the MICH was $79... that extra $14 gives us double the amount of miles of smiles.... a NO BRAIN'r in my book....
hope this helps....
Dan P
SPYD3R
