Mean?   Me?   I was saying I (me) was going to be lined up in the rocking chairs with Bill and the boys, not you -- you are only 39 years old and are in your prime (for the next 20 years anyway).   You don't get no rocker, your knees still work good so you sit on the stoop.

Well, you might have got teased jest a little bit for trying to teach Grandpa how to suck eggs -- and if you think a little bit about that Tech thread you read when you got in your jam with your mis-ordered tire, Grandpa wrote it.

Gotta watch them old geezers now, they fudges on you a bit they do.  I got two of them jest a fabricatin' away on their details and denying what they said earlier about taking their rear wheel in and paying dealership people to put their tire on the rim and claiming now they did theirs with their very own pinkies.   Gotta get that cost per thousandth down jest a little bit, they do.

A six pack bet is serious business to them old geezers ....      

So what did those young whippersnappers try to charge you for screwing up your tire like that?

They should have paid you to show them how to do it .....

Do not enter this data into the list as I'm no where near ready. I just want to describe the tires I have on the bike now.

I currently have IRC Grand High Speed GS-18F on the front in 100/90-18 M/C 57H and I have IRC Grand High Speed GS-18F 140/80-15 M/C 67H on the rear.
I am currently at 13805.3 miles.
My bike is a '99 that I purchased in 2001 with a guestimate of 3500-5000 miles (my memory sucks).
These are the same brand of tires that came on my bike. I changed tires once. So I've gone through two sets of these tires in ~10k miles so roughly 5k per set of tires.
I only feel the need to mention this because when I ordered the replacements the little mom 'n pop cycle shop I used to go to was surprised at my tires. I asked why and they said they were a really good tire. Probably gonna get 'em again depending how this thread turns out.


--Steve

Paraquat wrote on 07/25/12 at 15:54:13:




The results are already in on IRC rear tires --- They Suck Bigtime

Ask yourself which you would rather do, replace your IRC every 5,000 miles for say four times (and eat all the tube and tire change costs) or put on one (1) H compound Metzler ME 880 tire at $161 plus 1 tube and tire change?

Believe me, you will pay a lot more for all those IRCs, tubes and tire changes ....

I remember the stock IRC was the world's worst tire for reacting badly to road seams and the parallel rod type road surface on a draw bridge drove it tee totally nuts.

 
   
How to get into the spreadsheet to register your tire or to punch in your new mileage and new depth of thread .....



Go to Dropbox.com           https://www.dropbox.com/

Click on sign in: in the top right corner.

We have a shared generic Drop Box account called:  

suzukisavage@mail.com

with password:       s40boulevard

Now you click on the Public Folder when Drop Box opens up.   This will open the folder with all the shared stuff in it.  

You are looking for the Low Cost Mileage Contest.xls



Don't forget to save the spreadsheet once you are finished punching in your stuff.

Fitted Conti Blitz 140/90 rear at 7000miles, IRC stuffed. Fitted Michelin 325/ 19 Active at 10000 miles IRC still had life Total cost $NZ299 or $US230 at Paypals  exchange rate.

 
Included cost of tube and rim strip as cost of mounting since I did it myself. Did not include cost of tools since they can be reused on any future tire changes.

So initial cost $0.36 per tread thousandth, OF:  which is the cheapest motorcycle tire cost per thousandth found so far by like 3 cents.    If this tire lasts well at all, it will be a contender for low cost per mile as its starting cost is excellent.

  Congratulations, don't forget to update your secondary mileage and tread depth occasionally so we can see what your predicted total miles will be (and compare them to your reality later on).