Vredestein Tire

[Firefighter]

Reading all the Darkside info and am ready to buy. Found a 205/60/R16 92V Vredestein Sportrac 3 Summer Performance Tire. Is that what you Vredestein guys are using?   Think the R is just radial, and the 92 is a load range, but haven't seen those mentioned and also the "Summer Performance", just want the correct tire. Thanks  Firefighter

[John Schmidt]

Sounds about right, what did you pay for it and how old is the tire?

[Firefighter]

Haven't bought it yet, found it for 115.00 ebay, don't know how old, but wanted to make sure this is the same tire you guys are using.  Thanks  Firefighter

[valkcowboy]

Be cautious of  the Vredestein Sportrac 3 tires on ebay all the ones I have found are 07 - 09 year model tires.

[Firefighter]

OK, well I picked the Vredestein because of all of the chatter on our forum. I could not find this tire anywhere but ebay. So what is the next best? I'm reading about the Yokohama Envigor, should I try that? When I look this tire up, I get Yokohama Avid Envigor, is this the one? No DOT dates printed, what are you guys using?  Firefighter

[BonS]

Michelin goes out on a limb and says that a tire up to 10 years old - in use - is fine as long as you give it an annual inspection every year after year 5. A tire in storage - not in a hot trunk or underneath a car as a spare - but rather in a building or garage will age much more slowly than one in use that is exposed to the elements. Really, not that much is known about aging tires in benign environments.

[cutter]

Yokohama Avid Invigor V rated is what I ran on my I/S with no issues. The wing will get one on the next change out. I ordered them from Tirerack.

[Gavin_Sons]

I also run the advid envigor on my interstate.  I like it

[valkcowboy]

Michelin goes out on a limb and says that a tire up to 10 years old - in use - is fine as long as you give it an annual inspection every year after year 5. A tire in storage - not in a hot trunk or underneath a car as a spare - but rather in a building or garage will age much more slowly than one in use that is exposed to the elements. Really, not that much is known about aging tires in benign environments.

I have had 12 year old Michelins with over 85,000 miles on my F-150 the rubber was hardened but they still ran fine. However I won't install a tire over 18 months old on any of my bikes. If you have an issue with 4 tires on a cage YOU may get to pick up pieces of TIRE off the road. If you have an issue with 2 tires on a bike THEY may get to pick up pieces of YOU off the road. Just not worth it in my judgement..