Beautiful Twisted Sisters trip............NOT

[Brent Herridge]

Wife and I were staying in Kerrville last night to enjoy a gorgeous weekend riding the Twisted Sisters.

Unfortunately, my tire did not cooperate. It had seemed to wear pretty quick, but upon arrival in Kerrville we found this:



Made it back home, but what a disappointment........only 3,500 out of this Avon. 2500 out of the last Shinko. None of my tires has ever seen a burnout. I thought straightening out the rear end with the pulley spacer would do the trick, but apparently not.........

I figured the 1,000 miles of super slab on the way to Mastiff Dave's wasn't good for wear, but didn't think it would be this bad. Guess I just need a subscription plan for Avon 300s.

 

[HMAN]

DAMN dude!! Woulda sworn you spent some time in the burnout box. Sumpin aint right, thats for sho....

 

[roadie1389]

Yeap. They repaved roads down therr and its chewing up tires. A first was down there 3 weeks ago and had same issue.

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[Brent Herridge]

Yeah......the shinko was completely worn from sidewall to sidewall. This one was expectedly more worn in the middle after the 1,000 mile slog down the super slab. But the left side is WAY worse than the right........and it's extremely hard to believe I've really cornered that much more going left where the pipes don't hit.

Very irritating.

 

[SKOGDOG]

I had the same on the front tire I just changed. More wear on the left side than right. Plan to check alignment this winter

 

[pknowles]

I had the same on the front tire I just changed. More wear on the left side than right. Plan to check alignment this winter

Crown in some primary and most secondary roads seems like a likely culprit too invistigate.

 

[Brent Herridge]

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I sure hope when you noticed the tire you yelled "We're not gonna take it, no, we ain't gonna take it, we're not gonna take it anymore".

Man, tying that into Twisted Sister is so cool.

 

[Dispatch]

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Man, tying that into Twisted Sister is so cool.

Don't be a douchbag, take the stick out of your ass and lighten up...

 

[pauldeepsea]

Wife and I were staying in Kerrville last night to enjoy a gorgeous weekend riding the Twisted Sisters.

Unfortunately, my tire did not cooperate. It had seemed to wear pretty quick, but upon arrival in Kerrville we found this:

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Made it back home, but what a disappointment........only 3,500 out of this Avon. 2500 out of the last Shinko. None of my tires has ever seen a burnout. I thought straightening out the rear end with the pulley spacer would do the trick, but apparently not.........

I figured the 1,000 miles of super slab on the way to Mastiff Dave's wasn't good for wear, but didn't think it would be this bad. Guess I just need a subscription plan for Avon 300s.

Brent ,
Check your clearance between the tire and fender , one of my metzlers did the same thing . And I found the tire was rubbing on the fender when the wife was riding with me . She is not a big girl either lol

 

[Coolbreezin]

Wife and I were staying in Kerrville last night to enjoy a gorgeous weekend riding the Twisted Sisters.

Unfortunately, my tire did not cooperate. It had seemed to wear pretty quick, but upon arrival in Kerrville we found this:

Made it back home, but what a disappointment........only 3,500 out of this Avon. 2500 out of the last Shinko. None of my tires has ever seen a burnout. I thought straightening out the rear end with the pulley spacer would do the trick, but apparently not.........

I figured the 1,000 miles of super slab on the way to Mastiff Dave's wasn't good for wear, but didn't think it would be this bad. Guess I just need a subscription plan for Avon 300s.

Ive been using Shinkos for a few years now and have never had an issue. I get a couple years out of each back tire and I smoke it it up often. However, I notice that you have really odd wear (see arrow). I had similar problem and no one could tell me what was causing it or how to fix it, it just finally went away.

 

[Brent Herridge]

Yeah, that left side is weird. Shinko wore out even faster than this Avon, so I'll probably stick with the Avons. Just need to watch the mileage and plan better from now on.......

 

[Unsprung]

Brent ,
Check your clearance between the tire and fender , one of my metzlers did the same thing . And I found the tire was rubbing on the fender when the wife was riding with me . She is not a big girl either lol

Same thing I was thinking Paul. That tire looks like it was rubbed on something and the fender is the most likely culprit. I’m over 5k on my current Avon Cobra with hopefully another 2k left in it, and the roads in Florida are no good for rubber either.

 

[Mr. Wright]

That's a common wear pattern for the Avon 300's. I have a stack of them out in the shop, that need to go to the burn pile, and they all look like that.

 

[1 B.M.F.]

I love the soft compound tires but they wear out to damn fast.

 

[knothead]

I dont really see that odd of a wear pattern cause i seen alot of them that looks just like that.....now with that said the center could be possibly rubbing like Paul is saying.....but i wouldnt be concerned with the wear pattern of each side of center honestly....

 

[FrankBDPS]

If that tire was rubbing the fender hard enough to cut down to the steel wouldn't it burn the paint off of the fender? Just wondering.

 

[pauldeepsea]

If that tire was rubbing the fender hard enough to cut down to the steel wouldn't it burn the paint off of the fender? Just wondering.

Didn’t on my bbc .. I think it was caused due to bumps and the tire rubbing underneath on the fender

 

[Jersey Big Mike]

If that tire was rubbing the fender hard enough to cut down to the steel wouldn't it burn the paint off of the fender? Just wondering.

Paint is pretty tough, think about the paint on the road and how much that gets rubbed/driven over before it finally goes.

I agree, it looks like something was/is rubbing.
I also agree that the wear pattern is common on K-9 300 tires -- Have had it more often than not on both my K-9's -- Use to worry me, but I've seen enough others with the same pattern that I stopped worring about it and just change the tire when I need to -- thankfully not as often as Brent.
I'm still getting 8-10K on my tires - both avons and shinkos.

 

[Minuteman]

Brent, Paul mentioned the rubbing on the fender and knowing that you are not getting good mileage on the tires I was thinking, is it possible that with the extended forks on your bike and the additional weight of 2-riders that the shocks may not be properly stiff enough. I know that the extended forks will make the bike a little higher in the front putting more stress on the rear. Just thinking out of the box.

 

[Brent Herridge]

Thanks for all the thoughts and advice.

But maybe its just trying to beat everybody else every time I leave from a stop

The tire does not appear to be rubbing anywhere on the fender, and thia wear pattern is consistent with that 1,000 miles on the freeway that is very atypical of my normal riding.

I'll just order new ones at 2800 miles and quit complaining.