Replacement tires

[steven m]

I've been using Avon Roadrider tires, 100/90 front and 4.00 rear, and am very happy with them.  Affordable, drain well, don't grab grooves on the freeway.  Worth looking into.

Steve

[tvrla]

I expect a full report after the first ride!

[Ed Miller]

Ended up getting Michelin Pilot Activs, 90/90 18 in the front and 4.00 in the back.  Should be here next week sometime.  Thanks for the input!

~M

Not cheap.  Let us know how many miles you get out of them, hopefully in a couple of years!

[79beem]

I recently replaced my Metzlers (Lasertec Front/Me77? Rear) with pilot Activs. Modern tread pattern, but I'm very happy with them. Good wet dry grip and no wandering/tracking. I got 11months/10+kms out of the Metz.

[Air4Life]

These are Continentals with roughly 11K miles

[Speyman]

I've been very happy with Avon Roadrider tires. 100/90 on the front and 120/90 rear.

[rev_mook]

I took the bike and the new tires I ordered to a motorcycle tire shop.  Back tire went on in 5 minutes, but he struggled with the front for over an hour before giving up.  The problem was the 90/90 is just too small for the rim....  My old front tire was too worn out to reinstall so he installed a cheap 100/90 Kenda, first without a tube (went flat) then with a tube.  By the time I rode the 25 miles home, it was flat again....

So now I have a bike with mismatched tires, one of them is flat and a 90/90 18 tire I can't return.  I'm a bit annoyed about the outcome.

:/

~M

[nhmaf]

That's odd - a modern 90/90 x18 should fit OK - the 100/90 in some brands is technically too large for that narrow of a rim.  Maybe you've been the unfortunate one to discover the fancy high end Michelin Pilots run smaller than other brand's metric profile tires.  

I think the fact that he tried to put a tire on tubeless, on BMW with snowflake wheels that had a tube, says something about the experience level of the installer.  He *DID* put a tube in the rear tire, right?  IF the front tire is now flat then he ended up pinching the tube and making it leak.   Does anyone know how to install tires with tubes in that shop?

The snowflakes rims must have tubes in their tires for safety - but that is another corollary of the Damn Tire Thread..

[Bob_Roller]

If you can find a shop that is familiar with airhead bikes, it would probably be in your best interests to take it to them and retry the tire installation .

[nhmaf]

Ah!   I just noticed under your avatar that you've got an LS, and not a mere ordinary R65, which I had presumed you had...   The LS front wheels do have wider rims than the snowflake front wheels, so you could have safely gone with a 100/90 on the front - but I still believe a 90/90 could be fit there - I run a 100/90 on my front tire of my LS, but I know that some have run 90/90 fronts - but not Michelin Pilots on their LS.

[79beem]

Very odd, mine went on without a hitch ( shop fitted ) and only loose 1-2 psi a fortnight.

[raymr]

Don't give up hope. Have someone else look at it.

[nhmaf]

Ray - I'm not sure what the rim width is on your monolever frame bike, but I would suspect that the width is probably not less than the 2.15" of the LS front wheel?   The R65 snowflake front wheel is only about 1.85", I believe.

[raymr]

The stamping shows 2.5 x 18.

[rev_mook]

My rim is stamped 2.15.  I'm going to take the wheel and the Michelin 90/90 tire to a different shop tomorrow.  The data-sheet says a 2.15 rim is the preferred size, but will fit 1.85-2.50...  I'm not sure why the motorcycle tire guy couldn't do it...  Maybe the tire I got is defective?

(page 13 on this .pdf)
http://www.michelinmotorcycle.com/pubs/fitment2012.pdf

~Mook