Beating a dead horse..I know but...

[mrtappan]

I understand, but for me its not how long they last.  I had crotch rockets that smoked tires in as little as 1500 miles.  I want a tire I can trust my life on at speed and in various weather conditions.  I feel I cannot trust the Dunlops in rain, since I spun up the rear tire attempting to pass a car.  I was probably in 3rd gear and held the throttle steady while the bike wanted to high side me.   Eventually the tire regained traction and I was very cautious on my 400 mile ride home in the rain.      

I'm not a tire snob so I don't really care about brand or mileage or any of that.  Really, this is the only part portion of this whole post I can comment on.  I put a cheap Shinko rear tire on my Valkyrie recently.  Last weekend I got in it with a mustang on the interstate.  Even at a sustained speed of slightly over 100mph the Shinko was fine.  If you hate your factory tire buy buy a cheap Shinko.  Maybe it's better.  Mine seems to work fine.  

I wasn't there and I cant say, but maybe any "performance" bike would have spun out "any tire" in that scenario.  Just saying, it happens.  If you think that's bad, you should have owned a Vmax........

[Robert]

I think I know where some confusion is, below I will post links to 3 charts. All are 60 to 61 load ranges but look at the difference. I'm not sure why the lower number on the first except to say its a miss print. The bottom 2 are the correct figure. So its a 16 lb difference between 60 and 60 load range index. Hope this clears some confusion. 



http://www.webbikeworld.com/Motorcycle-tires/tire-data.htm
60    250    531
61    257    567
This is actually only 4 lbs difference in the 59 load index, this is the wrong listing.

http://www.maxxis.com/other-motorcycle-information/motorcycle-tire-school#motorcycle_tire_conversion_charts
60    551         
61    567

https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/docs/Street-Tire-Load-Ratings.pdf
60 551 lbs             250 kg
61 567 lbs             257 kg


As for the spin out, its kind of unfair because  it was a brand new bike and it was on slightly wet good black top but when I was on a test run with a new Valk the rear did break loose. It was a OS moment, but it made me be careful when wet on the OEM tires till proven.

[rusty]

well dont leave us hanging .....tell us how it went with the mustang!

[mrtappan]

They go faster than 125mph so not well.......