Newbie issue

[bsasuper]

If you want to fit the wider tyre, although it might look cool, it will effect the steering tip in.

[FJRider]

OP has a very light 250, 10k shouldnt be hard to acheive out of a rear at all

From the original post ...

i have ridden around 3k since buying the bike and it had a good amount of tread when i brought it and now there is almost nothing left.

The question arises ... how much is "A good amount" ... ie: how many km's did the previous owner do on that tyre ... ??? Did he/she do a burn-out on it before selling ... ???

Hard acceleration and constant (only) rear brake useage (A usual learner issue) chews out back tyres.

[Asher]

it had pretty even wear as per the amount on the outside of the tyre. I could try running a bit higher pressure.

^^ I do tend to use my rear brake probably more than i should since i think my front brakes havent been set up right.

[onearmedbandit]

the best thing I found was then even when the centre of the tyre was fucked, but the sides still had good tread, the tyre never really lost its shape which I was impressed with -

How the fuck does this happen? Losing tread depth in the middle and not on the sides will square a tyre off noticeably. Unless the tyre had a very gentle profile in the first place.

[SVboy]

Pilot powers come in 150/60/17. Great tyres. I get about 4-5kms out of them on the motard,but they get a hard life. I dont think PRs come in a 150/60? Bridgestone b90s and b92s come in 150/60 and seem to be very good.[But I dont really commute on straight roads!] I would not go to a 160-chances are your rim width would cause it to have the wrong profile.