6000kms is about right for the factory pilot sport rear.
/edit: You don't want to know what a trip to the track will do for it
Tyre, petrol and beer are all cheap, for now... Rejoice!
Approaching 11 000km on the SV650S...original Dunlops are still OK but will die in the next soonish period... Initially it seemed that the front would go out before the rear. But in the second 5000km it seems to have reversed. The rear will go out in the middle first I think. Perhaps I have changed riding style in the second 5k km...it is my first bike in 20 years...maybe I was braver to start with and have faded into old age and decrepitude...prolly did that years ago...or maybe I crank it more now...or more likely still, gremlins have got into the tyres and are eating them...bastards
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
I was getting 3500 or therabouts from a rear (down to the canvas)- double it for the front, I was running diablo corsas most of the time, tried the regular touring diablo but was just looser with no better milage
As was stated above re: the cost of tyres - I sold the SV because the tyre bill was killing me
I don't think so. I have extremely hard front suspension, with quite high tyre pressures. I find if I run too low (mid 30's) I tend to create a really triangulated wear on the tyre. Running a bit higher (40) gives me a more rounded profile.
My daily commute is from Upper Hutt, over Haywards, Grays Rd (or Paremata Rd) through to Tawa, so a lot of corners.
I'm just hard on the bike I think.
As for the weight, they're not that heavy at 200kgs dry. Probably 235 wet. There's a lot of weight over the front end though. Which is why they're a prick to wheelie off the throttle.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Amazing what one little (short as) burn out does to a tyre
The conti road i had on the back has done Sweet FA and i just put a conti sport on the front a 1000 k or so ago to match it ,so will go sport on the back now to match that and see how that lasts (no more burnouts though) going to be doing more track ks than road now so meh who can tell ! Stickier the better i say !
Loving the metzler racetecs k1 and k2 i got on the 955 now!! They inspire confedence they do lol !
A girlfriend once asked " Why is it you seem to prefer to race, than spend time with me ?"
The answer was simple ! "I'll prolly get bored with racing too, once i've nailed it !"
Bowls can wait !
I'm off to the pub, I may be sometime.
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