Extending tyre life.

[Irezumi aka Reuben]

Due to the high mileage I do I'm looking at way's of conserving my tyre life, it look's like I will get around 8000 miles from my rear BT45. Summer use has probably made it worse due to harsher acceleration and I expect to get a little more wear from the next tyre due to this, however are there any other way's to improve tyre wear/life?

Gentle acceleration and using engine braking/ the rear brake only, unless it's necessary to use the front, are my current techniques, anything else I should do, or shouldn't?
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[G]

Erm, is your front wearing out?

As the rear wears from accelerating and propulsion, I'd have thought it'd be better to avoid using it for engine braking.

Apparantly the wet can wear tyres faster for riding at the same pace.


You could of course go for some even harder compound tyres (presuming such things exist, I've never really looked at such tyres).


Or you could just 'fuck it' and pay a little money to ride your bike .
(I was going to say 'enjoy riding your bike', but I'm sure you'd point out that hard acceleration and braking aren't a big thing to you .)

[Irezumi aka Reuben]

It's a GPZ500, hard acceleration and braking arent possible.

Front tyre wear isn't an issue, had considered the fact that engine braking may cause greater wear, though this is low level, ie below 5000rpm. I wish to spend as little money on this bike so to fund the next bike, which I can have more fun on.

Harder wearing tyre is an option, anyone know of one that's harder wearing than a BT45 without offering too much less grip?
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[TheShaggyDA]

Continental Milestones are supposed to be long wearing, don't know about the grip though :-

https://www.blackcircles.com/tyres/motorbike/continental
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[brooky]

[_Will_]

Dunno what the hell i was doing to get over 12000 miles out of a set of bt45's
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[sickpup]

Considering you and you bike weigh nothing I think you have the wrong pressure in your tyres.

You should get about 10-12K from a BT45 rear. You could always fit a G548 or G602 Excretion rear which would match nicely with a BT45 front and give about 18k.

[Itchy]

Thats a thought for an NTV650 what pressures should I use considering I weigh in at about 11.5 stone , the front BT45 looks a bit worn already but then the past 2 weeks I've done 2000 miles without really noticing.

H rated I think.
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[sickpup]

[TheShaggyDA]

BT45s on a CB500 have a recommended 36 front, 40 rear - I would have thought the NTV would be similar.
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[sickpup]

[Irezumi aka Reuben]

32 front and 36 rear on my GPZ500, as reccomeded by Bridgestone and Haynes.

Having had another look it seem's 10,000 may be within reach,and due to less abuse perhaps more than that through winter, we shall see.
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[landy.s11a]

Jeez don't know whats up with me and the speed triple, we've covered a little over 8000 miles and I've just had my 4th rear and 3rd front tyres fitted, diablo corsa's wear down pretty fast, D207's are just as bad, so this time gone for mez4's to see if these last any longer, hopefully one day I'll find tyres that last more than a couple of months
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[Itchy]

[feef]

[Itchy]

there was a girl on here who only got 3K out of a pair of BT45s , though I'd probably get a nail in my tyre long before that.
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[Barry_M2]

[TheShaggyDA]

[TheShaggyDA]

Bridgestone recommend 2.5 bar front, and 2.8 bar rear for BT45s, which is 36psi and 40psi respectively, for the NTV.
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[Keen]

apparntly taking a pillion is good for tyre life.... it puts more weight over the rear tyre, thereby preventing tyre slip and helping it last longer

my conti road attack tyres seem good, not only do they grip really well, I've done 3000-odd miles on them so far and they still look like new. I managed to destroy my last tyres (bridgestones) in 4500 miles.

I have been taking a pillion alot more recently, so maybe there's some truth in it
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[steveh]

im running on a bt010 on the front and an 020 on the rear (as they dont make 010's anymore, id like a little more life out of it, are the 45's better? mines got abit of a flat spot on it from wheelie's ect, doesnt help the life much i know.
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[_Will_]

Heh, used to take pillions quite regularly on the divvy, maybe there is truth to it.

I don't own a paddock stand and the divvy had a centrestand.

No one wants to go pillion on the zed


I think it was somewhere around 12000 miles, actually must have been waaay more, the owner before me did 4000 miles in one trip and i did 8000ish on them, thing is the owner before the previous owner never changed them either
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