Roadie, he's riding a 700 pound honda flat-six to get his 8,000 10,000 miles.
(he used to get what ?? 4,000 miles with m/c tires ??)
We literally don't know yet how many darkside miles we will get on our Savages yet, but it will likely be somewhere between 15,000 miles and 20,000 miles.
MMRanch will get higher in that range because his TA Goodrich has deeper thread on it compared to my original chung fooie tire (which is about half worn out now after years and years of roaring squirrels and other intentional abuse (like leaving a nasty 50 ft black streak down Toymaker's long concrete driveway, hee hee hee)
You need to read up some on the actual experiences of Savage riders instead of relying on Honda flat six guys for your total mileage picture.
Besides, where are you getting 8-10 miles on the rear tire of a Savage? I got 5.6 thousand off the original IRC rear tire and folks paying $130 for a premium Metzler rear tire really aren't getting a consistent 10,000 miles out of them. Most of us only get an averaged 8-9,000 miles out of a premium rear tire and it is not unusual for list members to have to change out their rear tire every year and a half. And many of us cannot afford to buy Metzler tires -- we are Dunlop or less sort of people.
Darkside tires cost much much less. Darkside tires do not give up grip or handling, either. We prove this every year at Dragon run time.
We are constantly amazed at the number of folks who still can't understand the mechanics behind how a m/c tire and a car tire go about gripping the road and what a contact patch means and how they continue to think a round dead soft treaded tire is the only way things can work.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1181496112/15#16=========
Kel, the worst you will have to do to make the tire fit is change the bolts inside your fender to flat or rounded head bolts. You do not have to get the taller shocks unless you want to for leg clearance reasons.
I run stock shocks and I have a
taller and
wider tire than MMRanch does.
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Toymaker, sorry I was late to the party. New job involves some consecutive 12 hr days on the weekends and I find I am reading and posting on my irregular days off more often than not. Plus my knee is feeling better and I am beginning to work on trying to get my bike back together after getting rear ended in a parking space.