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thinone
18-06-10, 04:04 PM
Bike just through MOT - needs a rear Tyre
Looking at a BT023 Bridgestone
Honda = £149
Essential Rubber - East London = £130
Protyre [nation-wide] = £115

So booked in for tuesday and I'll get them to do my brakes when they are at it!

http://www.protyre.co.uk/bikeTyre_selector.aspx
yorkie_chris
18-06-10, 07:48 PM
£115 for one tyre? Ouch
FG1
18-06-10, 08:09 PM
Whilst on the subject of well priced hoops. I am going to Halifax on Wednesday to visit family. Anywhere in the area that does great prices on rubber...????
barwel1992
18-06-10, 08:18 PM
thats a bit costly ... cost me £178 for front and rear avon storm's of ebay
thinone
18-06-10, 10:55 PM
wow did ebay come and fit them too?
barwel1992
18-06-10, 11:04 PM
nope the shop 10 min down the road did, £20 for both non lose wheel and balancing
thinone
18-06-10, 11:20 PM
nope the shop 10 min down the road did, £20 for both non lose wheel and balancing
well I am glad you got the tyres u wanted at the price you wanted to pay
thinone
18-06-10, 11:21 PM
nope the shop 10 min down the road did, £20 for both non lose wheel and balancing
so that was about £200 all in?
yorkie_chris
19-06-10, 12:37 AM
Whilst on the subject of well priced hoops. I am going to Halifax on Wednesday to visit family. Anywhere in the area that does great prices on rubber...????

halifax motorcycle services
FG1
19-06-10, 05:15 AM
Chris, whereabouts are they ?
yorkie_chris
19-06-10, 08:12 AM
Halifax :-P





Sorry...
Dyson road just off pellon lane.
Lozzo
19-06-10, 08:26 AM
£115 for one tyre? Ouch

That's a decent retail price for it fitted as well. Thank god I'm in the trade and fit them myself.
barwel1992
19-06-10, 09:24 AM
so that was about £200 all in?

yup
cb1000rsteve
19-06-10, 11:16 AM
pirelli BSB's Part Worn £90 2 Rears and 1 Front. £20 fitted if i don't take wheels with me. Rear Lasts about 2000miles. cheap as chips and sticky too.
dill89
19-06-10, 01:00 PM
i went with a friend on wednesday and he got a BT-023 on the rear of his CBR600RR for £117,

Im goin up on tuesday to get 2 BT-020's for my Fazer for £170, fitted n all :)
jambo
19-06-10, 01:32 PM
pirelli BSB's Part Worn £90 2 Rears and 1 Front. £20 fitted if i don't take wheels with me. Rear Lasts about 2000miles. cheap as chips and sticky too.

Depends how you want to look at it. I get nearly 12,000 miles to a pair of touring tyres. Cost of ~£200.

£90 for 4000 miles worth of tyres, plus £10 fitting per tyre means you've spent £390 in that time. assuming 2 rears to a front. (£90 of tyres plus £30 fitting every 4,000 miles)

There's definatly a small initial outlay, but whether it represents cheap milage is worth calculating.

Jambo
yorkie_chris
19-06-10, 02:41 PM
2000 miles out of some race take offs is bloody optimistic. I killed an SC2 rear in 1200 miles.