I have been running a set of Mitas E07 Dakars for nearly 7500 miles, and still plenty of tread, the longest a set of MC tires has ever lasted on my Vee, in the beginning about the ony thing I didn't like about them was less grip than I like on wet pavement
It turns out, that is not the most severe problem, I ride a lot of gravel roads, about 50% of my riding where they seem to excel in performance.... why do they excel, cause they clear their treads of debris very well, which leads to the problem, where the debris, pebbles, small stones, grit, etc, gets thrown
I hear more gravel hitting the underside of my front fender, yup, fender is now broken from the beating , mounting tab on the left side is cracked all the way across, only the mounting tab on the other side secures the fender to the fork
today I learn that I now have broken teeth on my front sprocket and my chain is toast, and the chain and sprockets (530) were installed same time as the tires just over 7000 miles ago when I normally get 45,000 miles from 530 chain and sprockets, only thing I can summize is that crap is getting thrown into the chain as well that other tires don't kick up that high
These tires are beating the crap out of my bike
It turns out, that is not the most severe problem, I ride a lot of gravel roads, about 50% of my riding where they seem to excel in performance.... why do they excel, cause they clear their treads of debris very well, which leads to the problem, where the debris, pebbles, small stones, grit, etc, gets thrown
I hear more gravel hitting the underside of my front fender, yup, fender is now broken from the beating , mounting tab on the left side is cracked all the way across, only the mounting tab on the other side secures the fender to the fork
today I learn that I now have broken teeth on my front sprocket and my chain is toast, and the chain and sprockets (530) were installed same time as the tires just over 7000 miles ago when I normally get 45,000 miles from 530 chain and sprockets, only thing I can summize is that crap is getting thrown into the chain as well that other tires don't kick up that high
These tires are beating the crap out of my bike