Three sets this year Angle GT: ~2k road miles. Rosso Corsa: 3 TDs and 500 miles on the road. Avon 3D Utra: ~800 road miles. Not too happy about that, would you be? Need to change how I ride on the road I reckon. Could a suspension setting change help I wonder??
it's gone up on the fugly since i got the 848 i was doing well to get 2k from a rear 3-4 from the front. some one who knows his stuff recons the front was due to suspension settings. michellin power
what's a fugly? Same here with the fronts, easily get 3k from them. I'm chewing through the centre of the tyre, the edges are fine, the Avons are dual compound too. Any brands that have a concrete centre strip? :Hilarious: :Banghead:
I try and avoid motorways to avoid squaring off the tyre, when I bought the SS it had a virtually new Pirelli Diablo strada on the rear. I put 5000 miles on it and it still had about 1/2 of its tread remaining when I took it off to put a pair of Rosso II's on it. I have Rosso II's on the benelli as well (900 miles so far) and there is no measurable wear on them. Pirelli suggest 7500 miles is typical for these tyres and I see no reason to doubt that. On the road dual compound tyres are the way to go.
not an 848 but I'm around 8-900 mile on my 899 and the rear Rosso Corsa is looking pretty sorry for itself. Bit disappointed on how quickly it's squaring off as I avoid motorways.
No motorways to speak of either phil, just a & b roads. Some riders I spoke to said that twins are harder on tyres than IL4s. That makes me feel better Advikaz I'm going to try riding in a higher gear, see if I can eek out some more miles. Just bought a Dunlop GP racer 211 scrub for £50 delivered, centre is almost new. Supremely good tyre with a great profile, but a different type of compound to silica that loses heat very quickly so I have to be a bit careful (I asked Dunlop about using them on the road). At that price if I can get ~1k out of it I'll be laughing.
I can see why twins would be harder on tyres, they are definitely harder on chains do it would make sense the tyres suffer more too. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but although I'm not Rossi I don't ride (or drive) like a corpse, yet I always seem to extract really good mileage from both bike and car consumables. I can usually beat manufacturers MPG too...
Hmmm. Can't help wondering if you're someone who regards the chattering of a Ducati dry clutch as noise or as music?
Interesting that you ride almost exclusively on twisty roads but square off your rear tyre badly. How and when do you open the throttle when exiting bends I wonder? Do you get the corner over with, stand the bike up and then point and shoot? If you do, that might explain the squaring off. I'm no knee down scratcher and maybe it's slow but I personally tend to feed the power in from the apex and use it to both accelerate out of the corner and progressively stand the bike up, so much of the acceleration out of the corner is taking place with the bike off vertical. I'm not saying one is better than the other but it might explain the difference between squaring the tyre off and not on similar roads.
This is why I'm a bit surprised myself, but thinking about it it makes sense. I'm usually back on the throttle pre-apex to settle it, smoothly roll on then gun it on exit, no need to wait for it to stand up but I'm not massively leaning the bike over to begin with. Not confident doing that on the road, what with gravel, mud, roadkill and all kinds of other crap on there!
Riding smoothly (not necessarily slowly) will always return better life on fuel and all consumables than being rough and 'stabby'
Have a play around with tyre pressures - even one or two psi can be the difference between a confident bike and a nervous one.
