Bridgestone BT-023's - weird rear tyre wear

[arry]

Hi

Has anyone used these tyres for a decent amount of miles?

I bought my bike s/h with these fitted and they're not particularly worn, so I'd guess they're ~2000 miles old.

I think the guy that had the bike before did a fair bit of motorway / straight A road jaunting. Now I'm using the bike a bit more for twisties there's some oddness developing and I'm starting to really lose confidence in the bike

First off - when you look at the rear tyre when it's clean of grit etc you can see the different colour of the soft compound on the outer edge and the harder, darker compound in the middle. Fair enough - but when you run your finger across the cross section you can actually feel the 'ridge' in either side, and it's actually quite prominent

The bike feels skittish when leaned over a little not a lot. Lean through it and get the bike over nicely and it's fine, but then as you accelerate out the other side of a bend if you put the power on with the bike just a little off upright you can feel it get a wobble on . Really not keen on that, not keen at all.

It's kind of like there's plenty of grip, but it just feels totally weird, like the wheel is moving side to side through the corner rather than running clean.

Should I just ditch 'em?

[shereen]

Tyres are squared off - ditch them and get some new ones.

Problem solved.
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[arry]

[Dean-J]

The tyres are squared off. It is NOT the type of tyre!

023's are AWESOME tyres. bags and bags of grip, rain or shine. I had Pilot road 2's on my last bike and there is not much in it, but i would say the 023 is slightly better in the wet.

[arry]

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[Rob W]

[Dean-J]

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[arry]

[evoboy]

I have seen that happen to a pair of 023's before. They do seem to square quite badly on certain bikes for some reason! ( front and back)
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[0l0dom0l0]

Stick up a picture?

I'd be very suprised if it was squared off after 2k miles.

They're fantastic and I highly approve of the 023.
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[Rogerborg]

I'm sure you've checked the pressures, but... have you checked the pressures.
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[arry]

[devojunior]

sorry if this has been said but dont forget 023s are duel compound hard in middle and sorfter on edges mine went flat in centre rather quickly but i had put some miles on then i suppose.

[arry]

[bunglehaze]

Any chance the centres are 'stepped' at the compound join because the last owner overinflated the tyres - running the centres over emphasised, ran them like a pussy (straight lines, M/ways and low lean angles on corners) then you are running them normal pressures which puts them back into the right shape?

Cant think of any reason why the soft edges are not worn while the centres are.

Bin 'em off and get some S20's
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[arry]

[Deaks]

Personal opinion, I'm on my second set of PR3's on the Tiger. Got ~9k miles out of the last set and changed them as the were pretty worn and quite squared off.

I really like them, find them grippy (enough) in the dry and brilliant in the wet.

I did look into BT023's, and read some opinions on the Tiger forum, but saw more negative reports than positive ones.

The PR3's are not cheap (paid ~£250 for the latest set) but if they last for another 9k I'll be more than happy.
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[arry]

Cheers Deaks - out of interest. what were the majority of the neg reports saying?

[Deaks]

Wet grip mainly, and a couple about wear rates. Couple of people only got around 5k out of them, but that obviously depends on riding style and your right hand!
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[Kris]

023's are grippy, confidence inspiring tyres that work well in all conditions...

..but...

they wear too damn quickly for my liking and certainly too fast for serious commuter use. I went back to 021s which, although inferior, lasted a while longer and are by no means a *crappy* tyre.
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[Snipet]

Please excuse my reply if it's a stupid comment, I'm brand new to biking so really don't know a great deal.
But was the tyre like this when you took ownership of the bike?
If so could it be a case of the previous owner doing a burnout on the tyre, as this sounds like it would give the type of wear you described. With the low mileage it looks to have done.