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How far did you get on your stock tires?
05/24/12 at 21:00:26

I'm wondering when I have to start worrying about changing my original stock tires. I stuck a finger in my treads today just to see how much I have left, but having bought my bike used, I don't know how much tread the tires started with. I looked but couldn't find wear indicators in the tread like car tires have.

My bike has 6100 km on it. How far did you folks go before having to change?

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SALB Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 668 Whittier, AK Gender:	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #1 - 05/24/12 at 21:14:03 At 6000 miles, my 2007 had almost bald tires in back, and the front was really weather checking. Just replaced this month.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #2 - 05/24/12 at 21:24:06 At 5,000 miles the rear was junk & the front was so cupped up it was scary,,& the whole 5K, the rear felt like I had just rolled thru owl poo..
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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 6065 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #3 - 05/24/12 at 22:10:16 5k on the back front was still ok got 9k on my metzler 880s hardly broke in..
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feelinjunky Full Member Offline No Comment Posts: 238 NJ	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #4 - 05/25/12 at 00:59:29 Just turned over 9k miles on my 2001 stock tires.
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sjaskow - FSO Senior Member Offline Posts: 365 Frozen Tundra of MN Gender:	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #5 - 05/25/12 at 09:46:01 I got 14,000+ on the stock IRCs. The back was down to the wear bars. The front was showing weather checking and had been showing about the same amount since 10K or so.
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BuckRYCA Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 New London, CT, USA Gender:	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #8 - 05/25/12 at 11:30:48 4700 miles on my Kenda Challenger (front) and Kenda Cruiser (rear) since last June. Front looks new. Rear is only slightly squared.
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Re: How far did you get on your stock tires?
Reply #9 - 05/25/12 at 16:20:53

Stock IRC lasted about 4000 miles. Front about 6K. Replacement (no longer available) 130/90-15 Cheng Shin has around 14K on it. Second new IRC front (free from a former site member) has around 4K on it and is done, deceased, kaput.

I put 44K miles on a set of D404s on a much heavier bike and still had 60% or better tread life when I sold it.

Next set? D404 front, Nankang or similar aircooled VW 135SR15.

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Re: How far did you get on your stock tires?
Reply #10 - 05/25/12 at 17:51:48

Wow, lots of variation here. I would guess that my rears is. Loser to wearing out than the front, which seems to square with opinions so far.

sjaskow: where does one find wear bars on the IRC stock tires? On my car's all seasons, they are small raised areas in the tread grooves, but I don't see such things on my bike.

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Re: How far did you get on your stock tires?
Reply #11 - 07/26/12 at 21:49:43

MarkHB wrote on 05/24/12 at 21:00:26:

I'm wondering when I have to start worrying about changing my original stock tires. I stuck a finger in my treads today just to see how much I have left, but having bought my bike used, I don't know how much tread the tires started with. I looked but couldn't find wear indicators in the tread like car tires have.

My bike has 6100 km on it. How far did you folks go before having to change?

My Savage's (see signature block) rear OEM IRC tire was to the wear bars at 8700 miles. The OEM front IRC is still on there at 12,400 miles, but is about to the wear bars and needs to be changed yesterday.

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Re: How far did you get on your stock tires?
Reply #12 - 07/26/12 at 21:55:41

MarkHB wrote on 05/25/12 at 17:51:48:

....where does one find wear bars on the IRC stock tires? On my car's all seasons, they are small raised areas in the tread grooves, but I don't see such things on my bike.

My IRC tires have wear bars. One way to find them is to look for a small triangle on the sidewall:

See the small embossed triangle, pointing to the left? Said triangle indicates the circumferential location of the wear bars. If you look in the sipes abeam one of those triangles, you'll find at least one wear bar.

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running-it-stock YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 27	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #13 - 07/26/12 at 21:57:00 Same as above for rear OEM IRC 8,800 miles. Front IRC need replacing 11.6k mi.
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J C Stokes Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 159	Re: How far did you get on your stock tires? Reply #14 - 07/26/12 at 23:00:13 Original IRC rear was showing canvas, nylon stuff at 7000miles. Front IRC has about 9300 miles, it seems to have worn more on the right side. I shall replace beforwe canvas nylon stuff shows.
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