that was the price I paid for that tire, just looked it up.

 
Thanks for the catch, I just goofed.   I knew the 21,500 was the biggest number so I mighta/musta just typoed the 28,500 when I typed the cut note.

Check the sheet again, I put in Verslagen's $123.00 price on his skinny 16" tire that fits his modded bike's cast rim.   It helps him some, but not enough.   He now gets a cost per thousandth advantage of $0.13 but his softer V compound gives it all away still.

Moral of the story becomes this "Metzler makes a lot of ME 880 tires that have DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS -- you want to buy an ME 880 Marathon tire with the H compound to get the good mileage."


     Durn, I didn't know that .....   did you know that?

 
On my bike I find the 140/90-15 size partially corrects the minor speedo error the Savage seems to have.  

You can have minor bolt head issues inside the fender with the right hand sissy bar rail (or if especially you have bag brackets mounted) if you ever want to try to go to that size.

Oddly enough, the Nexen doesn't seem to generate much of a speedo shift -- I back checked it against a bicycle speedo that was calibrated against 10 miles worth of interstate mile markers (about as accurate as real people can get other than expensive GPS devices) and my Nexen error is inside the thickness of the speedo needle.   The tire was not very much taller than the worn out 140/90-15 Dunlop that had no speedo error either.

I kinda want to get in on this. I need new tires but having only ridden once in April I'm dying to get back on the road. I won't be putting the new tires on until it's too cold to ride.


--Steve

I didn't have to grind any bolt heads when I put a 140/90 15 Metzler on my bike. Maybe I got lucky on that.

Most of the bolt grinders are installing "fire sale" Dunlops of varying types that are being dumped off by the dealers as their stock gets about ready to age out.

140/90 is kinda a rare size, so they are the ones that get moldy most often.

As a list, we can (and do) buy and use them up, gladly.

SALB wrote on 07/25/12 at 10:10:26:



Oh, my,  all that work for a 150/90-15.

And what would you have to do if you wanted to put in a 165/80r15 ?   Is it even possible?

 
But it is always good to have the smarter younger people who have actually done stuff like the 150/90-15 tire to share all the details to help out us old feeble minded geezers -- we need all the help we can get, don't you know it.  

We screw up a lot all the time now-a-days, V versus H compounds, 28,500 vs 18,500, heck we'd have no clue about changing them swingarm weld beads or complicated stuff like that.

Soon we'll all be lined up on the porch rocking right along with Bill and be a' talking to each other right along in Billish and a cacklin' and a grin'in with our toothless old grins  ....