Shortest tyre life ever?

[geoffm]

Does this rate as the shortest life of a non-burnout tyre ever?

Got a new Pilot on the SV a couple of weeks ago. Rode it home, went to Bombay yesterday and on the way out it felt a bit squirmy - ok, tyres might not have been pumped up properly when fitted or just gone down a bit. Get home and go to pump up the tyre before I go into work for some unpaid overtime and...
there is a 4" nail sticking out of the side of the tyre - thru the tread and the sidewall. Even better, it has gouged a lump out of the shiney new rims.
Buy my reckoning that it worked out to be around $3.50/km and I now have to work out how to get the rear rim off to get it fixed.
Fuggit
Geoff

[roadracingoldfart]

Does this rate as the shortest life of a non-burnout tyre ever?

Got a new Pilot on the SV a couple of weeks ago. Rode it home, went to Bombay yesterday and on the way out it felt a bit squirmy - ok, tyres might not have been pumped up properly when fitted or just gone down a bit. Get home and go to pump up the tyre before I go into work for some unpaid overtime and...
there is a 4" nail sticking out of the side of the tyre - thru the tread and the sidewall. Even better, it has gouged a lump out of the shiney new rims.
Buy my reckoning that it worked out to be around $3.50/km and I now have to work out how to get the rear rim off to get it fixed.
Fuggit
Geoff

Thats tuff .... ask for a refund !!!

[DIN PELENDA]

I have something like this happened last year, got me nice new set of conti race attack , ride from Takapuna to Morning-side to work. At work I pick up steeple from pallet in back tire , manage to get it back to shop next morning, but they cant fix puncher by picking from inside , because two hole's were to close to each other , so I have to get new back tyre , another 400$.

Bad luck mate

[Fluffy Cat]

I thought it was only me that got that sort of bad luck.
Sorry to hear it.
I can do similar things without nails to.....New Michelin on the back of the XR650r go for a ride up Sharlands, get back home 4 hours later good ride. Look at new tyre!!!!!.....no knobs!!!. Hehe. Time for new tyre.

[Jantar]

Does this rate as the shortest life of a non-burnout tyre ever?...

Not even close. 1980 I was living at Ohakuri (30 km south of Tokoroa). I had a brand new set of Pirelli Phantoms fitted to my RE5 in Tokoroa on a tuesday. Imediately after I rode home to Ohakuri. That night I had to go to Putaruru, and as I came out to SH1 as group of 3 bikes went past. They were a CBR1000 (the 6 cylinder one), a kwaka 900, and I can't remember the 3rd one. They were going just a tad slow so I cruidsed past them. Straight away the 900 passed me, I passed back etc. A very short time later I waved them goodbye in Putaruru (50 km from Ohakuri). Rode home again that night, and the next day went to Tokoroa to replace a worn out set of Phantoms. 160 km for a set of tyres with no burn outs and no punctures. (but one hell of a great ride)

[madbikeboy]

CBX1000 - that's the six cylinder one. I've had one forever. It's a neat bike, but it's more like a cruiser in modern terms...

As for tires - I regularly get 500 odd k's from the rear of Scoot. Or a trackday (well, half). I've gotten a best of 1800 k's, but I removed three sparkplugs in order to do that...

[Jantar]

CBX1000 - that's the six cylinder one.
...

Yes, CBX That's the beast. But almost all high performance bikes from the 70s would be termed cruisers by today's standards.

[Taz]

and I now have to work out how to get the rear rim off to get it fixed.
Fuggit
Geoff

Normally there's a nut that holds the rear axle in. The axle holds the wheel in the swing arm. Jeez thought you would have figured this out way before you got to a 1000cc bike dude

[Elysium]

CBX1000 - that's the six cylinder one. I've had one forever. It's a neat bike, but it's more like a cruiser in modern terms...

As for tires - I regularly get 500 odd k's from the rear of Scoot. Or a trackday (well, half). I've gotten a best of 1800 k's, but I removed three sparkplugs in order to do that...

Frak, cornering must be the same as a Harley.

[Katman]

As for tires - I regularly get 500 odd k's from the rear of Scoot.

On the track or road? No-one is going to convince me you would only get 500 road kms from a tyre while riding in a manner that could be deemed responsible.

Do you want to be part of the solution or part of the problem Mike?

(And btw - no, that's not my tag down there).

[AllanB]

Frak, cornering must be the same as a Harley.

HA ha - you rode the things as hard as you could into a corner, if you were slightly overspeed then you got the mid corner wobble - it felt like the middle of the frame had a small hinge in it and the front and rear were racing each other through the corner! Plus you were draging pegs, mufflers and the main stand (standard fitment) in a shower of sparks. It was most impressive to see if you were following!

So as you got faster you went out and purchased Koni, or Street Stroker rear shocks, fork braces, loaded up the front springs with a cm or so of spacers, steering dampers (these actually made a big difference to the front 25-30 yrs ago). All this and you were probably lucky to be pushing 100hp out of a high performance bike! And a 130 section rear tyre was huge back then!!!!!!!

Then the GSXR750 arrived and the GPZ900R .........

Now people will hark on about the Italian bikes back then - sure they were very stable, but they all had such slow steering that to corner hard you'd need a big tri-hook and a rope attached to your bike to throw around a tree or lamp-post as you entered a tight corner to physically swing your bike around, otherwise you need to do a 3 point turn!

[Goblin]

Not even close. 1980 I was living at Ohakuri (30 km south of Tokoroa). I had a brand new set of Pirelli Phantoms fitted to my RE5 in Tokoroa on a tuesday. Imediately after I rode home to Ohakuri. That night I had to go to Putaruru, and as I came out to SH1 as group of 3 bikes went past. They were a CBR1000 (the 6 cylinder one), a kwaka 900, and I can't remember the 3rd one. They were going just a tad slow so I cruidsed past them. Straight away the 900 passed me, I passed back etc. A very short time later I waved them goodbye in Putaruru (50 km from Ohakuri). Rode home again that night, and the next day went to Tokoroa to replace a worn out set of Phantoms. 160 km for a set of tyres with no burn outs and no punctures. (but one hell of a great ride)

Must be something about Ohakuri. Doc and I swapped bikes on the way home from the Cold Duck. We stopped at the dam (last stop before home) then just got to the main road and the Hornet got a puncture. Tyres were only half worn. Got the dog poo kit out and filled the 3 biggest holes, pumped it up and it got us home. Have replaced the tyre for the brass monkey trip next week. Yippeee!!! Can hardly wait.

[madbikeboy]

I am part of the problem, hence the mandatory (and self imposed) stand down for the last 6 months. In my defence, Scoot is sensationally hard on rears. The GSXR600 race bike gives them a hard time, but it has about half the torque (and the heat cycles are easier to control on the track bike). Most of my riding around town seems to be on cold tires, short hops from place to place, and the combination of harsh/choppy rear shock, torque, and moron pilot seems detrimental...

As for the tag - fuck whoever put it there - if they're willing to stump up for a new rear, I'd be equally happy to prove my point.

As for the CBX - yes, it basically crusier like in terms of performance, but it howls (instead of the rumble of a twin). Plus, it's a much smaller pool of people who have one.

[Gremlin]

i've run out a set of normal tyres with normal riding in about two weeks. Asked the shop to talk to the sales rep, who was so shocked, he forgot to ask the most important question. I never did get a replacement set from pirelli when he saw them and found out they had done 7000km

[Elysium]

Unfortunately my bikes front is a Shinko so I have unlimited K's.