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Shelbyville, IL United States | I have 4500 miles on my Vision. I am leaving for Miami Fl on the 26th of April. I will prolly have around 5000 on the bike when I leave. 2700 mile round trip. Will the rear tire make it that long, A total of 8000 miles on tire when I return. Hate to have tire changed on the road. Thanks. |
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New Bohemia, VA | Keep it at 42psi, cold. 12,000+ |
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Shelbyville, IL United States | Thanks. What do you run in the front tire? |
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New Bohemia, VA | About 40psi cold. |
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New Mexico | new vic rider - 2014-03-27 7:04 PM
I have 4500 miles on my Vision. I am leaving for Miami Fl on the 26th of April. I will prolly have around 5000 on the bike when I leave. 2700 mile round trip. Will the rear tire make it that long, A total of 8000 miles on tire when I return. Hate to have tire changed on the road. Thanks.
You should be good. You will probably get 10-12k miles, although as I recall my first set of tires wore out a little sooner than expected.
I'm at about 20k on my rear, and will be fine another 10-20k.
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Central Illinois | Tire life depends on your riding style. I ride like an old man so when I set out for central Florida a couple of weeks ago with 9000 miles on the bike I didn't worry about tires. 2500 miles later I am home and both tires are still fine. If I spent my time trying to see how fast I could ride the dragon I am sure my tire life would be very different. |
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Central Maryland | I run the same PSI's in my tires as varyder; 40/42psi and I weigh about 240 pounds. Ride solo most of the time. I have just about 17k on my Vision now, rear tire looks like it could go to 20K and the front tire is at half wear.
I love the E3's. They are howling a little more now; but that's ok with me. |
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Sturbridge, Mass | I avg about 13K on a set of E3's- mostly all highway miles.
Run 40psi in front- 41 in rear
200#s & all solo- going to give the new E3 MT tire one last shot, hoping for better wet weather feel/grip. |
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Cruiser
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Shelbyville, IL United States | Thanks for the info guys. I had a VTX 1800 before and the back tire would only last about 5000 to 7000 miles. I ride agreesive. The touque the Vision has does not even compare to the VTX. No smokey burnouts on the Vision lol. |
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Iron Butt
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| hottierod - 2014-03-28 4:47 AM
I avg about 13K on a set of E3's- mostly all highway miles.
Run 40psi in front- 41 in rear
200#s & all solo- going to give the new E3 MT tire one last shot, hoping for better wet weather feel/grip.
I'd like to hear what you think of the current E3's wet performance. I went to Cobras for just that reason.
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New Mexico | willtill - 2014-03-28 3:18 AM
I run the same PSI's in my tires as varyder; 40/42psi and I weigh about 240 pounds. Ride solo most of the time. I have just about 17k on my Vision now, rear tire looks like it could go to 20K and the front tire is at half wear.
I love the E3's. They are howling a little more now; but that's ok with me.
Wow! That's great. With almost the same scenario I got about half that out of my E3s. My climate is much dryer and warmer than Maryland. I wonder if that is what makes the difference??
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| I'm lucky to get to 10K on tires. We do almost all riding 2-up with a full load. The OP should be fine.
I believe in changing the tires 500 miles too soon rather than 500 miles too late. YMMV |
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Iron Butt
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| Boots - 2014-03-28 9:56 AM
willtill - 2014-03-28 3:18 AM
I run the same PSI's in my tires as varyder; 40/42psi and I weigh about 240 pounds. Ride solo most of the time. I have just about 17k on my Vision now, rear tire looks like it could go to 20K and the front tire is at half wear.
I love the E3's. They are howling a little more now; but that's ok with me.
Wow! That's great. With almost the same scenario I got about half that out of my E3s. My climate is much dryer and warmer than Maryland. I wonder if that is what makes the difference??
riding style...never got more than 8500 outta my rear tire. same PSI. |
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Central Maryland | Boots - 2014-03-28 10:56 AM
willtill - 2014-03-28 3:18 AM
I run the same PSI's in my tires as varyder; 40/42psi and I weigh about 240 pounds. Ride solo most of the time. I have just about 17k on my Vision now, rear tire looks like it could go to 20K and the front tire is at half wear.
I love the E3's. They are howling a little more now; but that's ok with me.
Wow! That's great. With almost the same scenario I got about half that out of my E3s. My climate is much dryer and warmer than Maryland. I wonder if that is what makes the difference??
It could be. I probably ride 80 percent highway/20 percent around town. Here is a picture of the tread of my rear E3 tire, currently at 17246 miles:
Edited by willtill 2014-03-28 10:44 AM
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| Tire life is up to you. With a good gage checking the first of every month you'll see you have lost some air. So if you put it off now you;ll loose more air.
When it gets over 95 degrees out side check every two weeks and you'll see you lost all most four pounds of air.
The pencil stick gages are a joke specially the one in the tool kit.
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New Orleans, La, | New Vic Rider, something must be wrong with your ride. I do smokey burn outs at will and had to rein it in cause my rear tyre life sucked. Currently run 42/42 on Shinko journeys and getting 20K+ on them. Actually the best tyres for milage I've ever run. 200lbs mostly solo inner city. 75+k currently on the clock on an '08. |
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Iron Butt
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| Check your air everyday if you want, if 90% of your miles are on mountain twisties scrapping boards 8500 tops is all you get |
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | V92SC - 2014-03-28 9:56 PM
New Vic Rider, something must be wrong with your ride. I do smokey burn outs at will and had to rein it in cause my rear tyre life sucked. Currently run 42/42 on Shinko journeys and getting 20K+ on them. Actually the best tyres for milage I've ever run. 200lbs mostly solo inner city. 75+k currently on the clock on an '08.
Impressive! How would you rate the Shinkos in the rain as compared to the E3s? I have Shinkos on my v92c and they are easy to break free on acceleration. Makes me cautious of giving it the gas in a curve. |
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New Orleans, La, | The Shinkos are average in the rain but my '08 106 was warmed over and can break most any tyre in the wet. Avon Cobras are the best wet road tyres out there bar none and get adequate milage ie 18-20K. My experience with the E3's was 14K and cupping bad at 9K and above average before cupping but below average after cupping. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Cedar Rapids, IA United States | I have Avon Cobra's on my 2013. Running 42 psi in the front & 46 psi in the rear per the Avon tech line. I have @ 6k on them - I like the way they feel better than the Dunlop E3's, |
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Iron Butt
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Peru, IN | I've got 12k on my front (original) E3. I figure I can get another 3-4k miles out of it before I start to feel uncomfortable. I hope the front dual compound E3 is out by then. |
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Cruiser
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Victoria Tx, TX United States | Any one with Centramatics on their bike? I know in Big Trucks the tire life is much longer with them. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Cedar Rapids, IA United States | http://centramatic.com/Page.aspx?page=Video%20Installation%20For%20...
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New user
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| Hello all,
I am a newbie here. I have had my vi vi for 6 weeks and put about 1500 miles up on it.
I am in Australia, but I think that my comments although general, may help. A great deal of tyre life has to do with the road surface material. Here, in Victoria, in the western area of the state, the bitumen is comprised mostly of basalt type stone. Tyres wear quickly due to the hard, abrasive characteristics of that material. In the east of the state it is a bluestone base which doesn't wear tyres as quickly.
Hope that this helps
Cheers Andrew |
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Iron Butt
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| Avon Cobra update: in the past I've been running 39 front and 47 rear solo, no trunk and riding fast including a lot of twisties. The front would normally go about 10k miles and the rear about 6k miles. They work great wet or dry, do not square off or get noisy as the miles add up. As an experiment with the current set I lowered the pressures down to 36/42. The front now has 11.5k on it and nowhere near the wear bars. The rear has 6.2k on it and looks like there's somewhere between 1500 - 2000 left. They don't last anywhere near as long as E3s do but for me their other advantages far outweigh the lower mileage.
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