I do everything by the odometer because my employer use to pay me for miles driven. I ride year round 5 days a week (6 if I work Saturdays) regardless of the temp or weather conditions. Yes I ride in freezing sleeting rain. Counting the original tires
I am on my third set. I switched out the original at ~10,500 (I could be off my a couple hundred) miles because of cupping caused by those stupid (stupid to me) Dyna Beads.
They were still very good tires except for the gigantic cup in the front tire. I had planned to take the original tires to 15-18 thousands miles. I ALWAYS change front and back together regardless of the condition of the favorable tire. My fronts always go out first. Always...on every motorcycle I've ever owned.
Just rechecked my odometer. 33,944.5 miles. Subtract the 201.5 miles I put on since Saturday that leaves 33,743 miles when the new set of Battle Wings were added.
10,500 miles (give or take a few miles-I could be off my a couple hundred miles.) from 33,743 = 23,243 miles roughly on the second set of tires.
Again...I don't mean any personal bearing by it...but the sole purpose of the thread was to determine what is the expected life span of Battle Wing tires. This was not intended to be a bragging rights thread...cause I really don't give a
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Edit: Note; Just occurred to me that based of information I remembered from a car forum concerning tires. Is it possible that because of the extreme cold weather conditions that I take the Wee through that the tire compound could have just harden over time? Maybe I’ve been riding on harden pieces of rubber and not tires. Not good. Well then again...another reason for the thread.