On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:40:18 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:31:11 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Gunner Asch wrote:
Yall may find this of interest...

http://www.canyonchasers.net/reviews/tire-miles.php

None of the tires listed are designed for a heavy touring bike like
mine .

Does "Canyon Chasers" sound like a mild touring group to you? vbg
Most of the Bridgestones were touring tires, though, and got good
mileage with the racers. I remember seeing the guys on bikes damnear
horizontal on the curves of CA-74 between San Juan Capistrano and Lake
Elsinore in CA. There were many wrecks every month, usually with at
least one death. You'd see them pass you on the inside corner in the
other lane with their knee scraping. Luckily, I never saw a wreck.
They're gruesome. Speaking of which, look at this guy's luck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLQN4_gkYDo


Let's just say that you need to be careful if you run your hand along the
bottom edge of my footboards ...

I miss the meaning here, unless you sharpened them in turns.


My 1990 Harley Ultra Classic has some mods
to the stock rear suspension , including chromoly steel/aluminum bronze
swingarm pivot bushings of my own design in place of the
steel/rubber/plastic/silicone composite OEM units .

I'd miss the slightly softer ride with the rubbery hinge there,
myself. You Harley riders are tough, and have to be, between the
unmuffled exhaust noise, engine vibration, hard tails, etc. You have
to man-up to ride one for long. I'm just a wuss, preferring an enduro
style of bike, so I could ride it anywhere.


The roads up here are a little coarser than down in the Memphis area .
Here they use chip/seal surfacing on the roads using crushed rock rather
than the plain asphalt surfacing . I could see a reduction of up to 20-25%
in tread life , but not a reduction to less than a third . Car and truck
tires don't seem to have the same shortened life ...

True, luckily for us. But you only have to buy 2 at a time, max.

--
The great thing about getting older is that
you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
-- Madeleine L'Engle