reminder guys! By LUKE (Read 1,005 times)

[LUKE]

[scootmonk]

luke, did u have any problem with your tires? i have a 2008 morphous, going to check tomorrow. thanks for the info.

[jct842]

Dunlop does apparently does make some tires of quality, but I will not live long enough to ever buy another. The honda buyer who ordered the tires they put on all the 86 aspencades like I bought new should have gone to jail! tires like dunlop sells the manufacturers are going to kill people untill bike and scooter sellers refuse delivery of the units. 25 years ago there were not a lot of over $10k bikes and I was real pissed with getting such a garbage tire on such an expensive machine. after a week the dealer replaced the front with a like tire in war. and it was just as bad. john





the honda

[kiwiscoot]

I've heard tires go hard over time. On the side of the tire should be a batch number which will tell you which month of which year it was manufactured. That tire is at least 5 years old and who knows how long that scoot sat in the shop perhaps in the sun.
My philosophy is ride that darn scooter in order for the tires to wear out before they get old and brittle. You will not catch my scoot out with old hard tires
On a serious note, thanks Luke for the warning, I'll check our other 2007 Xingyue scoot as it's a 2007 model.

[kz1000st]

I don't know. How many people run their tires underinflated at speed and then complain when the tire blisters. This is the problem with this new generation of riders. They think motorcycles are cars. Just stick the key in the ignition and ride. My OEM Dunlops on my KZ1000st went 19,000 on the rear and 36,000 miles on the front. Try that these days on these crappy gumballs they're selling. My wife's Rebel just needed a new rear tire at 5,700. Tires are softer and stickier these days to keep clowns from falling down. Give me back my hard tires so I can spend less and run farther.

[oldchopperguy]

Sept 8, 2011 6:25:22 GMT -6 kz1000st said:

I don't know. How many people run their tires underinflated at speed and then complain when the tire blisters. This is the problem with this new generation of riders. They think motorcycles are cars. Just stick the key in the ignition and ride. My OEM Dunlops on my KZ1000st went 19,000 on the rear and 36,000 miles on the front. Try that these days on these crappy gumballs they're selling. My wife's Rebel just needed a new rear tire at 5,700. Tires are softer and stickier these days to keep clowns from falling down. Give me back my hard tires so I can spend less and run farther.

Hey, I must agree...

20 years ago, it seems tires were rock-hard and lasted forever. I wasn't one to push the envelope, so that was fine. I had a Honda 4-cylinder 500 cc in the eighties, and the Bridgestone tires were SO hard that they still looked new and crack-free after 40K miles!

In all honesty however, they had SO little traction that you had to treat dry pavement like wet pavement... LOL... and wet roads were like "black ice". I could break the rear tire loose by just goosing the throttle, and could easily lock up both wheels with the slightest application of the brakes.

I also had a Chevy on which I put a set of NTW "store brand" 60 series tires. They too were SO hard that unintential "drifting" was the order of the day. I drove them over 90K miles, then, gave them and the mag wheels they were on to my son-in-law. He put them on a truck and drove them another 50K miles! They still had plenty of tread, but were finally starting to crack.

Those tires must have been made of rubber related to early bowling balls! They had zero traction, but whew, DID THEY LAST!!! They'd outlast many cars of the era!

New scooters and cycles seem to have soft, sticky tires with a lot of smooth tread area, and stick to the road like glue. Great for riding, but they don't last like the old rubber "bricks".

Check 'em often and ride safe!

Leo in Texas

[Bashan]

I had a Viper for about five years, V-10, 500 HP. It was an unbelievably beautiful car but it was brutal on your body to drive it more than about an hour. But speaking of soft tires, you could almost pull a chunk out of the tires with your fingers they were so soft. It started thumping on the road after about 10,000 miles so I took it into the dealer. They said the tires were wore down on the sides which was normal on that car. I wasn't about to put tires on a car after 10K so I walked. 1K later I was back telling them to put the tires on....$400.00 a pop. The thumping had got so bad I thought my fillings would come out. Those puppies would grab the road allright, and leave some chunks behind too. Rich

[trailheadmike]

Bashan's comment reminds me of a Top Gear episode I watched. They put a Viper through the 0 to 100 to 0 test, and the brakes locked up. The tires stayed inflated but were literally flat on one portion with all the steel belting exposed.