90/90-19 front and 130/90-15 rear will provide the best handling/turn in. Brand does not matter. It is a lightweight bike, you can get away with cheap tires and still get a good to great service life.

My 03 has a Shinko front and a very old (like 1994 coding) Dunlop Qualifier rear. 100 front, 140 rear, since those were what was on hand.

My 98 has an ancient (1970s) GS11 90/90-19 front and old (2000) 140/90-15 Cheng Shin rear. Those tires were on it when the electrical system decided it was made by Lucas and went poof...

And all of those old tires have at least 20K miles on them with usable tread left. Except the like new GS11, it has maybe 10 miles on it, bad tube.

I still have original tires on my 03; they look prefect, still I decided to replace them;
Just got set of Shinko tourmaster 230's; stock front size and 130/90-15 rear; with tubes, rim tape came to about 150$. I will put them on myself (first time; never did that before....)
I figure for that cheap money its not worth worry about it..

Tocsik wrote on 07/22/15 at 12:07:08:


Handle just fine.

I'm more concerned with the garbage electrical system or the pot metal shift linkage on a Savage than I am the age of its tires.