Hey, I work for Yokohama Tire Corp. in Salem VA. We build passenger car & light truck tires and I know for a fact that some of our tires get better than 60,000 miles of wear. If we can do this on auto & truck tires why can't someone build motorcycle tires that will run 20,000 miles ??? I will soon be replacing the Dunlop wide whites on my 98 Road King and they have less than 10,000 miles! Just curious!
Tires???
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Jick Scott
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It's all about the MONEY !!!!!!
There's no reason at all, I agree MONEY talks!
Davidw2415
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I replaced my front twice at around 10,000 but the front had just over 20,000. May they just need to make the rear tires twice as much tread depth.
Car tyres can have a hard compound on the tread and a soft sidewall on the tyre and still get good grip
Car tyres are wider and have a much greater contact area with the road and therefore skip less
Motorcycle tyres have a narrow contact area with the road and accelerate faster than cars so more skip = more wear
The loading on a motorcycle tyre has to work at angles so the construction of the tyres are different
Just a few initial thoughts
Brian
Car tyres are wider and have a much greater contact area with the road and therefore skip less
Motorcycle tyres have a narrow contact area with the road and accelerate faster than cars so more skip = more wear
The loading on a motorcycle tyre has to work at angles so the construction of the tyres are different
Just a few initial thoughts
Brian
