Hey guys, I have an amusing story for you all. I'll tell you the moral up front, "you get what you pay for!"
So, In June when I got back from my Washington State ride it was time for another tire, I had tried the Michelin pilot road 3, I had just got 8741 out of it, the OEM Dunlop had gone 12834. So when pricing tires I found that the OEM was going for about $220 and I thought about trying the Michelin pilot road 4 as it's suppose to go 20% longer and it was about $189 or so. Then I found the Continental ContiMotion for $94 and thought, well if it goes even 6k I'll brake even So I went for it.
Well, fast forward to this week, I had about 2800 miles on the tire, it was looking a bit smooth, but I figured it had to have at least another 1K or so left on it. I decided to do the TeliMena scenic ride. From Plano TX it's about a 500 mile day. So off I went. On the way there I'm thinking that I should probably check the tire, but the phat girl goes about 200 miles a fill up, when I filled up I was enjoying the day and was getting into the really pretty country side, Broken Bow OK, and failed to look at the tire and went on to Mena for lunch. after lunch I'm putting a few things in the saddle bags and think "I should look at the tire" and I look and see a nice center stripe of belts/cords. Well at this point I only have 2 choices, take it easy and hope I get home or start looking for a trailer. I decide to go home taking it easy, max speed 55.
So since I'm going slower than most traffic I decide to take all back roads, distance is about the same. Well as I'm coming into Paris TX I see a bunch of fire trucks parked on the side of the road, I slow down to find that it's a funeral, well the back end starts getting a little mushy, So I pull over and the tire is flat. when I look at it I see that I've worn through the steel belts. Luckily I was able to contact a friend that is home with nothing to do and a VRCC member is kind enough to let my friend stop and hookup his bike trailer when he wasn't home. I got home a little late last night but I got home with the bike and without any harm done to it or me.
So I put the bike on the lift as soon as I unloaded it last night and this afternoon took the wheel off to finde this.
I also found that when using Ride On and doing this to your tire, that the entire underside of your fender and swing arm get completely covered in Ride On! luckily I found that it's water soluble and rinsed off easy with a hose.
