What tires did your Super-Tenere come with?

[jajpko]

Metzeler Tourances on mine...

 

[~TABASCO~]

Metzeler Tourances on mine...

Same here........ ;D

 

[maddog5150]

It would be interesting to see all this data side by side with VIN data. Like XXX and below got BW's and XXY and up got EXP's.

 

[fredz43]

It would be interesting to see all this data side by side with VIN data. Like XXX and below got BW's and XXY and up got EXP's.

We got 5 in at our shop. #159 had Metz. 006, 158, 246, and 321 had BW's.

 

[martinh]

Battlewings on mine build was 80

 

[maddog5150]

We got 5 in at our shop. #159 had Metz. 006, 158, 246, and 321 had BW's.

Well, that seems to blow my theory out of the water. :

 

[justbob]

VIN 148 Battlewings

 

[switchback]

Tourance EXP

 

[Rand0mRider]

So why is there different tires on them? I never really paid much attention in the past to tires that came with anything. It just seems like at least by region you would want uniform distribution of tires. Any reason aside from supply shortage?

Oh and I haven't gotten mine yet so I cannot contribute with what it came with.

 

[dastard]

#500 came with metzlers

 

[Yamaguy55]

It would be interesting to see all this data side by side with VIN data. Like XXX and below got BW's and XXY and up got EXP's.

I would be more interested in seeing if the bike's color were linked to the tires. When I bought my FZ, the blue ones had Dunlops, and the silver ones had Bridgestones. I intentionally bought the blue one for that reason.

 

[CREnorth]

CA # 038 came with the battlewings.

 

[fredz43]

I would be more interested in seeing if the bike's color were linked to the tires. When I bought my FZ, the blue ones had Dunlops, and the silver ones had Bridgestones. I intentionally bought the blue one for that reason.

Nope. We had 3 blue and 2 black and only one black came with Metz.

 

[klebs01]

#336 came with Tourances

 

[markjenn]

So why is there different tires on them? I never really paid much attention in the past to tires that came with anything. It just seems like at least by region you would want uniform distribution of tires. Any reason aside from supply shortage?

Yamaha negotiates huge contracts for OEM fitment of tires and typically they will have at least two approved suppliers that, at least from Yamaha's POV, are completely interchangeable and equivalent. What you get on the bike will be what is most readily available and delivered to the plant on the day your bike was built.

There is nothing to be gained by "regional uniform distribution of tires" so Yamaha isn't going to expend any extra effort to do so. The same situation happens with cars all the time.

- Mark

 

[rugeroid]

vin#626 black--metz

 

[barkingllizard]

Metzelers on mine.

 

[Buckeye56]

Metzlers on mine too.

 

[Storm]

Metzelers

 

[Kidder]

Tourance EXPs on mine. I had an EXP on my V-Strom 650 and they didn't last very long. I will replace them with Conti Trail Attacks when they are done.