- Joined
- Sep 25, 2009
- Messages
- 3,055
- Age
- 68
- Location
- West Des Moines, IA
- Bike
- 2022 Kymco AK 550
- 2024 Miles
- 001361
- STOC #
- 8058
After my trip to Oklahoma last weekend I looked at my tires and the rear tire tread is even with the wear bars in many places. Just put these tires on the scoot in February and the rear is done with about 6000 miles on them. The previous OEM original tires were replaced at 6600 miles. My trip down south included many faster roads that were paved with chip and seal. That surface eats tires for lunch. One long section of the Talimena Scenic Drive was fresh chip and seal that was VERY rough. I joked with the group that I lost 500 miles of tire life on just that 30 mile section. Didn't realize at the time I may have been right. Now the front tire looks like the rear tire did before I left for the trip so expecting another 2000 miles out of that one since we really don't have chip and seal roads up here in Iowa... at least not enough to be an issue with tire wear (the trip was 1747 miles). Today I ordered a set of Shinko tires for the scoot. SR567 for the front and SR568 for the rear, a matching set. They are Bias ply instead of Radials but that won't really be a problem as many here have put Bias ply on their bikes that use OEM Radial tires with no issues. Reviews indicate these should last at least as long as my OEM Bridgestones that are on there now with some reviewers saying they were able to get over 9000 miles on them. And the total cost for both F/R is the same as just the front OEM Bridgestone so I'm looking forward to see if they are anything close to the Shinko tires I put on my CTX a few years ago. Total cost for me for BOTH tires was about $106! Yep, scooter tires do cost less being slightly smaller (15" front, 14" rear) so I can go through twice as many sets of tires on the Burgman 650 and still pay less on tires than I did on either my ST1100 or CTX1300.