MikeBear said:
::026:: on PR3s. Got rear PR3 sitting in the garage waiting for front one(revzilla is out of stock on them)
I hear people get 8-14k on them, so I guess I will get more.
FWIW, PR3Trails are very hard to find right now. At least the fronts. I had one on back order for over a month, kept getting told "the end of the month" for Oct, then Nov, now Dec. I hunted to the end of the internet and was able to find 6 tires. Yep, only six front 110/80R19 PR3 Trails among a huge list of vendors. A couple of the vendors replied telling me they thought they were discontinued, and had no time line on when or if any new ones would come into the pipeline. Many just kept telling me the same thing my original vendor was saying, "the end of the month". I ended up getting the last one Competition Accessories had, on a Sunday, only because the online customer service guy was not only working on Sunday, but took my online order number and locked me in for that tire, which shipped out the next day.
Motorcycle SuperStore had three, as of Monday 12/10 and I've forgotten the other two vendors that said they did actually have -one- in stock. One was a US arm of a UK tire company.
I'm putting on a set of PR3 Trails, but my research is showing that a PR2 rear will likely wear longer than the PR3, but not be as good in the rain. I'll see how the PR3 Trail holds up. After 6200 on the EXPs, (still had some life in them, but I really hated them and they were cupped badly), 12k off the first K60 rear, 22k off the first K60 front and 8500 from the second K69 rear, the PR3s will be a return to a more street oriented tire for me. Mostly I want to see how they wear for consideration of using them during the IBR. I'm going to miss the off pavement security of the K60s.
I have flogged the K60s pretty hard in the local canyon and while I did see the TCS light flashing, I never felt control was an issue with them. Worth noting is that I
can drag pegs, but feel if I'm doing that on the street, I need to back it down a notch. Too many variables on the street imho, so if I catch myself pushing at that level, the peg drags, (or center stand on the right), is a warning to me. And I do shift weight and body, but am not a knee dragger type.
Tire life is generally about speed, temperature, road surface and riding style. I'm a smooth rider and don't whack the throttle much. When I lived in OR with the cooler, wetter riding on smoother roads, I consistently got 10-12k out of rear tires. On the Super Ten, I burned up 3/32" of the rear K60 that's coming off with 2000 miles of very fast riding in NV on coarse pavement and with high temps. That's the only reason this K60 rear didn't get what the first one did, mileage wise.
Big tough Spec Ops guy like you should be able to handle some minor extra bar pressure to engage and maintain turns.
