How do people get so many miles out of their tyres?

i use ALL the tyre and they seem to last me ages

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

I'd have to say riding style. I used to get almost half my present mileage when the bike was just ridden for pleasure and I was locking and spinning up the rear wheel reasonably regularly. Now I can't remember locking or spinning up the rear for the past 2 years and hardly ever ride for pleasure. I presently commute reasonably swiftly, but with vastly less harsh braking and less full throttle acceleration from low speeds.

Rode my triumph fastish and smooth 50 mpg av,an still tyres had,had it at 5000, not had glady's long enough to guess

[dizzyblonde]

Ride like an **** and ride your bike hard, tyre life won't last long.

Ride like Miss/Mr Daisy.....get miles and miles and miles and miles

It must be down to riding styles as fuel seems to be the same, people chase the elusive 200 miles per tank, I tend to do 180+ miles between fuelling and based on whats left I should top 200 at least 75% of the time!

but that is reflected in my tyres, I'm at 9k on a set of PR2s and I'd say they have quite a bit of life left in them but my riding consists of a 30 mile commute and weekend/pleasure rides, totalling 13k/year.

So my only conclusion is I ride like an old woman

216 miles between fuellings with an estimated 262 total for the remaining was my personal best, most boring week of my life LOL

Glad to see there's a few people getting similar mileage to me, although still bemused how you can achieve twice that. I commute on my bike daily and use the bike for pleasure when I get chance, riding style may be I suppose, but it's boring to commute at grandad pace!

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Ride like an **** and ride your bike hard, tyre life won't last long.

Ride like Miss/Mr Daisy.....get miles and miles and miles and miles

And then you can save weight by removing sidestand

I'd guess 6000 from my RA rear... got about 2.8m on the front left which is lovely and "well used". Commute 3 or 4 times a week and do some lovely twisties at the weekend.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Brettus

It must be down to riding styles as fuel seems to be the same, people chase the elusive 200 miles per tank, I tend to do 180+ miles between fuelling and based on whats left I should top 200 at least 75% of the time!

but that is reflected in my tyres, I'm at 9k on a set of PR2s and I'd say they have quite a bit of life left in them but my riding consists of a 30 mile commute and weekend/pleasure rides, totalling 13k/year.

So my only conclusion is I ride like an old woman

216 miles between fuellings with an estimated 262 total for the remaining was my personal best, most boring week of my life LOL

262miles on a tank of fuel! Crikey, you must walk round! The most i ever got was 201 to conking out and that was in the 1st week of owning the bike and i was running it in!

Originally Posted by Viney

262miles on a tank of fuel! Crikey, you must walk round! The most i ever got was 201 to conking out and that was in the 1st week of owning the bike and i was running it in!

Heh I was just experimenting, seeing what I could get, I've never actually ran it dry but working from 17l capacity and what I put in its pretty close
I was barely out accelerating cars, it was painful, but once I'd started doing it for that tankful I couldn't stop otherwise I'd have wasted my time up to that point.

seems to be a big discrepancy between the K4 and K6 as Admin was saying he doesn't get many before the light is on, maybe thats just the light though?

Ah well, sorry for the derail, tyres! if we all reported when we changed tyres I bet we could build up quite an accurate picture of usage, especially averaged across the different riding styles demonstrated by this thread

Too geeky? eh sorry, It's what I do

[flymo]

Originally Posted by Viney

My mate Tron (His forum name) actually got just over 12k on a Bridgestone 020 rear of his Triumph Trophy.

Thought he had one of those 'light' bikes with blue tyres....