Of front tires that have 5-10,000 miles life left in them today. I'm leaving tomorrow morning to go down to Denver for the Ironbutt Association's International Meeting. I'll ride their Wild West 1000 on Wednesday (a Saddle Sore from Denver to Pueblo to Montrose to Farmington to Moab and back to Denver), and then the following week, I'll ride down to Tucson and from there do the Southern California Motorcycle Association's Three-Flags Classic which takes back roads through Torrey, UT, Twin Falls, ID, Walla Walla, WA, and ends in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. Then I'll come home. So, I'll be putting about 6,000 miles on the bike in the next two weeks.
My front PR3 has been on the bike since the Thursday before Labor Day last year. It had 10,760 miles on it, and I'm pretty sure it will last for 18-20,000 miles. So, I nearly decided to not bother putting the new PR4 I got last April. But because Chuck and I replaced my rear PR3 then with the new rear PR4, I found the damage to my final drive and that led to my mechanic finding the about-to-fail pinion bearing. So I thought about that and I thought about hard it might be to find a front PR4 up in eastern British Columbia or western Montana and decided to change the tire.
Turned out to be a pretty good thing that I did. My front wheel bearings needed replacing.
So, now I've got a set of PR3s that have several thousand miles left in them, plus an extra PR3 front that's got several thousand miles left in it.
I've got such a nice collection that I could just hang them on the wall and use them for picture frames.
My front PR3 has been on the bike since the Thursday before Labor Day last year. It had 10,760 miles on it, and I'm pretty sure it will last for 18-20,000 miles. So, I nearly decided to not bother putting the new PR4 I got last April. But because Chuck and I replaced my rear PR3 then with the new rear PR4, I found the damage to my final drive and that led to my mechanic finding the about-to-fail pinion bearing. So I thought about that and I thought about hard it might be to find a front PR4 up in eastern British Columbia or western Montana and decided to change the tire.
Turned out to be a pretty good thing that I did. My front wheel bearings needed replacing.
So, now I've got a set of PR3s that have several thousand miles left in them, plus an extra PR3 front that's got several thousand miles left in it.
I've got such a nice collection that I could just hang them on the wall and use them for picture frames.