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[denny]

Wondering what everyone is seeing for rear tire life? My 99 EVO Springer always got between 7-9000 miles my new to me CVO Springer is bald at 5000. I have several friends with hopped up 103 baggers getting 8-10000 miles looking for longer life suggestions size is 200/55/17 I thought the weight of the touring bikes would make mileage worse as well.

[FLTRCVO]

Wondering what everyone is seeing for rear tire life? My 99 EVO Springer always got between 7-9000 miles my new to me CVO Springer is bald at 5000. I have several friends with hopped up 103 baggers getting 8-10000 miles looking for longer life suggestions size is 200/55/17 I thought the weight of the touring bikes would make mileage worse as well.

What tire are you running on the bike? Depends how you ride your bike?

I ride 2 up have a 2009 CVO Road Glide the least amount of mileage I have gotten out of a rear tire was 16,211 miles (stock Harley Dunlops) and that was due to a nail being in it and it still had 5/16ths thread left. Rider, passenger cargo weight is in excess of 400lbs. and I cruise at 80 - 85 on the highways, 2% of my riding if that is city riding .Again this is my experience with rear tires. Fronts are a totally different story.

[denny]

It has a Pirelli on it now was on it when I purchased it. I'm not on the highway much at all majority is two lane back roads with very little stop and go no traffic lights in northern NH western Maine. I never do burn outs but will stab the throttle and get up and go plenty rarely have a passenger she rides her own total cargo 300 lbs.

[SDCVO]

completely up to your riding style. You will see some surprised they only get 15-20000 miles and others (me) that have to change every 5000. The "others" ride like idiots.. 

[JCZ]

I'm with SDCVO.....I don't get what most do, either.  Weight of the bike and load, do you keep constant tire pressure (check it at least every week?), riding style (twisting the wick every time you leave from a stop), tire size,  etc. etc. etc.   It all plays a part in how fast that back tire wears down.

When I'm riding with Alan (SDCVO) it's usually bald by the end of the day.  It's pretty rough on a 110 trying to keep up with that 124.  If he didn't turn down so many of those dead end roads up there in the mountains we'd never catch him. 

[SDCVO]

I'm with SDCVO.....I don't get what most do, either.  Weight of the bike and load, do you keep constant tire pressure (check it at least every week?), riding style (twisting the wick every time you leave from a stop), tire size,  etc. etc. etc.   It all plays a part in how fast that back tire wears down.

When I'm riding with Alan (SDCVO) it's usually bald by the end of the day.  It's pretty rough on a 110 trying to keep up with that 124.  If he didn't turn down so many of those dead end roads up there in the mountains we'd never catch him. 

I'm never going to live that down I can see.. I do deserve it though..
At least I never have to worry about leading again and can stay in the back trying to not lose your taillights which takes everything my motor has.

[Sinker]

At 18,000 miles I am getting ready for my 4th rear tire on a 2009 CVO Springer. The tire has less than 1/32 inch of tread left. Have been hoping to do Metzler 888's but they are back ordered, so I am putting the lousy Harley Dunlops on again so I can ride the rest of the season. I feel like I am pissing my money away on tires!

[skratch]

Wondering what everyone is seeing for rear tire life? My 99 EVO Springer always got between 7-9000 miles my new to me CVO Springer is bald at 5000. I have several friends with hopped up 103 baggers getting 8-10000 miles looking for longer life suggestions size is 200/55/17 I thought the weight of the touring bikes would make mileage worse as well.

you're comparing apples to oranges here.  your cvo softail does not utilize the multi tread design that the baggers do.  a friend of mine with the stock softail tire gets about 7k mileage out of his.  i got over 20k on the stock dunlop, only changed it because of cupping.

[grc]

As scratch noted, you can't compare tire life on your Softail with tire life on late model baggers.  The touring models have a rear tire with dual compound construction, with a hard center tread compound and a softer edge compound for cornering.  I'm guessing that Pirelli on your bike is just a soft compound, similar to the typical offerings from Avon, Metzler, etc.  If you want to try a dual compound (what Dunlop calls Multi-Tread), Dunlop offers a 200/55-17 MT in their American Elite series. 

http://www.dunlopmotorcycletires.com/tire-line/american-elite/

Jerry 

[08glide]

as everyone has stated, you're comparing apples to oranges. I have a friend who owns his own shop (indy ) & he put a pirelli on customers bike (by request) & 5k later I was there when he had to call hte customer & tell him the tire was showing cords on 50% of the tire. try something else

[denny]

Thank you grc (Jerry) this is exactly the Intel I am looking for I'm going to try this duel compound tire as I basically use my coco Springer as a touring bike