Kbwitt, all those things mentioned by others above apply, just like all those things you mentioned will have some impact on your tire wear, but don't forget that there's a heap of other stuff that will have a big impact too!! Things like the weight of the rider/pillion (ie, the load on the tire); the ambient temperature, air temps & road temps will make a difference; the speed you ride at (not just hard accel &/or braking); how long the tire was sitting around before it got fitted (tires 'go off' over time, & storing them for a while before fitting can seriously impact their wear/life & the traction you get from them!!) and a vast array of other things too!! And as Pampurrs said, religious maintenance of pressure & balance can have a big impact too - without that, you are almost certainly going to get significantly LESS life out of a tire than with it; but what do you call religious maintenance vs what anyone else does in the way of maintenance?? How long is a piece of string??
What it all comes down to is that your tires will last longer if you care for them better & look after them better than just fitting them and forgetting them; but how much difference that 'care & maintenance' makes is pretty subjective because of all the other variables that also have some (significant??) impact!! No-one give you a prescription that can tell you exactly what to do, what pressures to run, what way to ride, etc in order to get a given number of miles, cos that all varies from bike to bike, rider to rider, road to road, the speed you ride at today to the speed you rode at yesterday, season to season, daily temperature to daily temperature, and a vast heap more!! :yikes:
All you can do is maintain your tires & pressure as much as you feel comfortable with, ride your Spyder (bike/car/truck/whatever) in a manner you feel comfortable with, and if you don't get the tire life or tire behaviour/performance that you are happy with, then you get the choice of either putting up with that or changing one or more of the variables over which you have some control!! More maintenance maybe; drive/ride slower possibly; watch your tire pressures closely & set them more specifically for what YOU do, how you ride etc; change the brand or construction of the tire you run to something better suited to you & your needs; or you could decide that's all too hard & you'll just go with the OE tires & the placard pressures & put up with the tire life & handling you get from them - it's
ALL YOUR CHOICE, & no-one else can really force you to do anything apart from what you want to do; but that means you get the results your choices lead to - and btw, that's gonna be different to the results that anyone else would get cos somewhere along the line, one of
their choices is bound to be different to yours, &/OR one of the variables over which they have no control will be different, so the results will almost always vary to some degree! The bigger the differences, the bigger the variance! :shocked:
So do as much or as little as you are prepared to do to get the results that you want, but after doing that, all you can do is
Ride More, Worry Less!! :thumbup:
