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Nun-uh --- mebbie not ever, especially not until they figure out whatever yardsticks they are going to use to compare their various tires with.
Mileage is relatively objective, clear cut and such it makes easy "real world" comparisons.
(ignoring riding style, of course)
Cornering handling and such is completely subjective and will get them all tied up in knots unless they define good handling a wee bit "for discussion purposes".
And they haven't quantified a cost or value variable at all (tire cost per mile gets used a lot)
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So far it is a very nice genteel discussion that isn't very far along into any specifics.
But they are doing jest fine so far, so let them run with it a bit and see where it goes.
Many of these discussions just are just brand preference discussions with no technical points discussed at all, so this might just be one of those.
Besides, why does everything have to be hard? Why can't you have a nice quiet motorcycle tire brand discussion?
I like Perelli and I like Dunlop jest fine as the "start" price isn't as painful as Metzler.
You got some wear out data given above on Metzlers, 20,000 miles into $120 = 0.6 cents per mile which likely pretty much covers your highest mileage bike tires. Most Savage folks don't get 20,000 miles out of a rear Metzler anyway.
Given that most non-IRC tires all handle jest dandy when put on a Savage, I wonder which common brand yields the lowest cost per mile?
Let's get some more ME880 rear tire total mileage numbers from various folks to see what sort of range we come up with.
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