Beating a dead horse..I know but...
mrtappan:
Quote from: maddoggie501 on August 20, 2015, 02:16:20 PM
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. ;D
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.......
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