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I have a habit of changing tires out that others tell me are still good to go for many more miles. I have this notion about shedding water at speed and flat resistance and feel that by using about 75% of the available tread is more than enough, and that any more would be seriously limiting the safe use in rain.
What do you guys as a general rule do? Will you run the center of the rear down to smooth rubber, or like me do you have some personal wear limit that starts to make you uncomfortable?
On the knobby dirt oriented dual sport tires, I admit to using maybe 50% of the tread depth and then I swap out tires and hand off the old one to a less financially capable riding buddy to let him run the remaining life out of the tire. I feel that if I have a D606, it is because I want mud and dirt traction, so running a D606, MT-21 or Trackmaster bald sort of defeats the reason I mounted that type of ultra aggressive DOT tire on my KLR or KLX.
What do you guys as a general rule do? Will you run the center of the rear down to smooth rubber, or like me do you have some personal wear limit that starts to make you uncomfortable?
On the knobby dirt oriented dual sport tires, I admit to using maybe 50% of the tread depth and then I swap out tires and hand off the old one to a less financially capable riding buddy to let him run the remaining life out of the tire. I feel that if I have a D606, it is because I want mud and dirt traction, so running a D606, MT-21 or Trackmaster bald sort of defeats the reason I mounted that type of ultra aggressive DOT tire on my KLR or KLX.