New rear tire time, its shot at 4880 miles. Front looks almost new. Oem irc tires. 2007 S40 third owner. 2200 when i bought it
Logged about 2600 of those miles in the last 6 weeks.
Local harley shop has met 880s and some chinese thing he sells a lot of. Thing is i hear a LOT of folks complaining about the mets breaking loose in tight curves or worse yet when wet.
I hear a LOT of good things about the pirelli route 66's which is kind of the way i want to go. I do a lot of corner carveing and rarely hit the slab. So a good gripping softer compound should work well for me.

Now the decision is the mets i can get monday(i think), pirellis ill have to order and take another day or two anyway unless some shop in springfield has em.

Manufacturer of course reccomends you change em both, not to run two different brands. Ive seen a few say they ran em different in here and mentined no problems. THOUGHTS?


Now the rear is listed at a 140/80-15 M/C 67H

Closest pirelli i can find is a 140/90-15 70H
Anyone have rubbing problems with the taller tire?

Now the big question is, do i go cheap chinese till fall and then replace both with mets or pirellis?
Or do i just go ahead and put a pirelli or met on the rear now and hope the front lasts till the rears ready to go toes up again? THEN replace them both?

Either way it sucks, weekend and start of the week is shot. Withdrawl symptoms setting in already...lol

lone my mets
lil slick 1st 100 miles think just the form release was wearing off..

my oem rear didnt last 5k either..i found metzs on sale on line got new tubes and liners had them boith mounted all for under 300..got over 8k on them now..

Id seen one or two here talk about the mets being a lil slick. Then i got to reading tire reviews online last night and about 25% of them were complaining about the mets breaking free on wet pavement, corners and in the rain. Some 650s, 800-900cc bikes and then some heavy Hawgs in the 1500cc range.

I ride agressively, and yeah i know theres a good 100 mile breakin on any tire. But it just seemed folks were a whole lot happier with the pirellis rt66s. Which is the crutch of the matter, local has mets and dont carry pirellis. Guess i can go to springfield and look around or else bite the bullet and order online.

Just not sure i want to mount, a met on the back(or pirelli) then leave that crummy IRC tire on the front. Still looks good, almost new. But man does it grab lil grooves n waves in the asphalt.


Charon, caught he!! just to get back into the sport with this bike. Id like another, good 650r, maybe a 1200 bandit but its not in the stars right now. Got to suffer through with one bike for now...lol
Guess i need to go dismount the tire off the bike so i can try to get something done tomorrow. Have to settle for rideing the quad for a couple days i guess. Just wont be the same. :'(

Yeah thats one of the mods i plan to do this winter or when funds allow it. Thinking about a Tkat as its not as pricey as the superbrace. Got one cheap laying around?...lol
Some progressive shocks or maybe intruder or sportster shocks...depending on cost. Lightbar as i like to ride of an evening and at night as well. Lot i want to do, just got to be able to afford it.

Just read a lot of reviews that said the pirellis had improved ride and handleing, would'nt grab them lil rain groves as bad. What i hate is new smooth asphalt next to old asphalt and theres a lil lip.

We were getting the annual goldwing convention here for a couple of years. But they gripped about the roads so much i think they went elsewhere...lol At the time MO was listed as the 49th state with the worst roads. Arkansas was the only one worse then us. Our roads are getting pretty crummy.
Get these big expensive new divergeing cloverleaf overpasses(first in the country) that cost millions but we cant seem to keep a nice smooth road with no heat humps, asphalt breakup or potholes. Go figure.