Rear Tire Wear

[tconaagt]

I have a question about rear tire wear. What is the general milage everyone is grtting on the rear tire before replacing?(original tire)
I have just over 13500 KM(about 8400 miles)& the center of the tire is down to the wear bars.Is this common?
What are you replacing it with?OEM or??
Thanks for the info.
Tire pressure maintained at 28/29 psi

[warp10]

just replaced mine at 9600 miles. you should not even see wear at less than 1k miles. try and lower pressure to 23-24psi.

[murphybrown]

I get around 14k per tire....I replace with stock tire and keep pressure at recommended level...

[Bob Denman]

I replace mine at 7000 miles. (Ran the pressures at 28 psi)
It had tread left, but I'm pretty cautious about the shape that tires are in; replace them early before I start sliding around and making a muss in my drawers!
But the Falken is currently looking pretty darn good with almost 5000 on it!

[GeoffCee]

I know what has reduced the mileage I'll get from my first rear tire, namely accelerating too fast, especially when overtaking. It's a stupid and expensive thing to do, I know, but having said that I will still get about 7,500 miles before I have to renew. I swear I'll treat my next rear tire with a lot more respect! I don't know what the hell I'd do if my rear tires only lasted 840 miles, I couldn't afford to keep replacing them and that's for sure.

[asp125]

If you look at the wear bars closely you will see two different sets. The inner set are closer to the surface of the tire and the outer set are lower in the tread. I've got 6000 on mine (OEM set to 28psi) and it's almost touching the inner set. That's just a heads up to remind you. I would keep riding and start looking for new tires when it gets closer to the outer set.

Mileage on tires vary. Depending on how abrasive the road is, how hard you ride, what air pressures you run. Do you ride on gravel or macadam roads, or chip sealed roads? Do burnouts?

[NancysToy]

Make sure yo are looking at the wear bars, and not the water blocks. The wear bar locations are marked by tiny triangles on the tire sidewalls. I get about 14K per rear tire, too. High speed riding will wear the center faster. The pressure doesn't seem to matter much. The tire just balloons in the center at speed.

[Bob Denman]

Stinkin' Two-ply...

[Fire Joe]

I have a question about rear tire wear. What is the general milage everyone is grtting on the rear tire before replacing?(original tire)
I have just over 13500 KM(about 840 miles)& the center of the tire is down to the wear bars.Is this common?
What are you replacing it with?OEM or??
Thanks for the info.
Tire pressure maintained at 28/29 psi

Though I ride a GS, I was getting around 9-10K miles on my rear tire. Finally decided to switch to Kumho this last time. Wear is definitely better but I must say riding in the rain was much better with the Kenda.

Unless I forgot the correct formula though, don't you mean you have around 8400 miles instead of 840 if you have 13,500 kms?

[tconaagt]

Though I ride a GS, I was getting around 9-10K miles on my rear tire. Finally decided to switch to Kumho this last time. Wear is definitely better but I must say riding in the rain was much better with the Kenda.

Unless I forgot the correct formula though, don't you mean you have around 8400 miles instead of 840 if you have 13,500 kms?

You're right about the conversion.I feel a bit better now.

[bluestratos]

I just changed mine at 14000 + change. I went with a Kumo AST and so far I can tell no differncet to the stock tire.

[GeoffCee]

You're right about the conversion.I feel a bit better now.

We ALL feel a bit better now! Jeez!

[rock]

we have been very lucky with tire wear on our 2010 rt... in the spring i will have to replace our rear tire with about 23,000 miles on it...the fronts still look like new..i guess the only thing i have to worry about with the fronts are possible dry rot..very rarely do i ride without my wife on the bike so this wear is with 2 people on board... ô¿ô

[Dizneyman]

we have been very lucky with tire wear on our 2010 rt... in the spring i will have to replace our rear tire with about 23,000 miles on it...the fronts still look like new..i guess the only thing i have to worry about with the fronts are possible dry rot..very rarely do i ride without my wife on the bike so this wear is with 2 people on board... ô¿ô

Think I am heading to be about the same as you. Mostly ride two up, have 14 k on tires with plenty of tread left. Run rears at 29-30, fronts at 24

[Captain Fin]

You're right about the conversion.I feel a bit better now.

Dealer installed my Kumho. Im very happy!

[MouthPiece]

2010 RT PREMIER EDITION:

Riding style: Moderate. Sometimes aggressive
80% riding single
20% riding double

Front tire pressure 20 lbs
Rear tire pressure 30 lbs

50% town----50% slab

OEM BACK TIRE: 15,000
OEM FRONT TIRES 21,000

Chris