EricV said:
All you're doing is telling me you're a hooligan with poor throttle control. Worse, you haven't even worn out the oe tire on your S10 and you're offering up suggestions to others for tires. For a day rider that only covers 3500 miles a year, anything round and black will do. The stickier the better.
The point is that if a tire is known to last under similar load and conditions for 10k, it's going to do ok for the OP's 5k ride. Somehow I doubt you've ever done a 5k ride in your life, or ever will. Go polish your bike or something.
Sorry, not trying to upset anyone here, just trying to point out my mileage and your mileage may be very different, had you told someone tyre X would definately last 5k and they found it was worn out half way through a 4k trip they may be a bit miffed.
Obviously my shite throttle control is the cause, or perhaps your just not opening your throttle very much, or your bike is running on one cylinder?
I would not class myself as a hooligan (well not anymore) and according to my California Superbike School instructor my throttle control is fairly decent, it was also good enough to easily pass an IAM test, however I will admit I do like to drive out of corners, but if I wanted to just slowly gather momentum upon exiting a corner I would have bought a Prius.
I have not worn out an S10 tyre as a deal on an S10 fell through at Xmas, Iand because I have a Euro trip coming up in a few weeks I wanted to go with my current bike which is all setup for touring, something I do a bit of, normally setting off once a year for a trip to somewhere in Europe (normally 10-14 days and about 3,000 miles) plus a few other long weekends here and there of 500 - 1000 miles.
I have worn out many tyres over the years, and know that different people wear tyres differently, a mate of mine who used to ride extremely hard on the road (before taking to the track and winning a couple of national championships) came with us on a tour once, same tyres as some of the other chaps, yet they did the whole trip (2,000 miles) easily on one tyre, we had to find a store to get a new tyre fitted to his bike as he went through it in about 1200 miles (Yes he was a hooligan) but the point is he was on the same trip, on the same roads on similar bikes (all 750 - 1100cc sports bikes - his was "only" a 750) on the same day in the same weather doing the same "type" of riding.
Anyway gotta go and polish my bike