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Standing around visiting with some of our Wednesday night supper riders, one of the Gold Wing 1800 riders had just put new Dunlop Elite III's on his Wing, and stated that he had gotten 16,000 miles on his last rear.
After only getting 10K on each of three standard Harley Dunlops, I put on an Elite III, and now have 10K on it, but it looks like I'll only get a couple more thousand and I'll be replacing it.
His comment was that a Harley will never get as good mileage on comparable tires, due to the pulsing of the V-Twin through the drive train, vs the even firing of a multi-cylinder bike like the Gold Wing.
Has anyone ever heard this before?
Comments?
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Wings eat tires just as well.
Motor vibration has little to do with it. It's all the weight on the rear of the bike.
The only way to settle this argument would be to find out how much weight is on the rear axle on both models.
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That was an ignorant comment. You don't get a hell of a lot of "pulsing of the v-twin through the drive train" with a belt drive. Not that that would matter anyway.
It all has to do with how you ride. How you use your rear brake, etc. Roadway surfaces in your local region will vary also and affect tire wear.
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I call BS on this comment. Just last week I had 3 riders sit next to me at dinner in a restaurant in LaCrosse WI. They started talking about bikes and eventually came to the subject of tire life. I couldn't believe it when I heard all 3 of them say that 6K is about the max for a rear tire. I heard them talk about Wings, Beamers and some Kawi thing, and they agreed that all of them only were good for 6K. One guy blamed the horsepower, and the other two blamed the fact that the tires were made in China.
Kinda made me feel good about my American made Dunlops!
Wings eat tires just as well.
Motor vibration has little to do with it. It's all the weight on the rear of the bike.
The only way to settle this argument would be to find out how much weight is on the rear axle on both models.
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That would be my thoughts on it as well, but also as mentioned riding style, road surface, and inflation have a important effect on tire life
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Dunlop Tyres is a British company owned 75% by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and 25% by Sumitomo Rubber Industries, which sells Dunlop branded road tyres in succession to the Dunlop Rubber Company.
In 1985, Dunlop Rubber was taken over by BTR plc, and Sumitomo acquired the rights to manufacture and market Dunlop branded road tyres. Sumitomo did not acquire any Dunlop company. In 1997 Sumitomo gained agreement to use the Dunlop name in its corporate name, and changed the name of its UK subsidiary to Dunlop Tyres Ltd[1].
In 1999 Sumitomo and Goodyear entered into a joint venture, by which Sumitomo continued to manufacture all Japanese-made tyres under the Dunlop name, while Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company bought 75% of the European and North American tyre businesses of Sumitomo
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Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) Kolkata-based tyre manufacturer Dunlop India will resume production at its Sahaganj factory in West Bengal around the Durga Puja festival in late September after remaining closed for 10 months, a top company official said Thursday.
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Standing around visiting with some of our Wednesday night supper riders, one of the Gold Wing 1800 riders had just put new Dunlop Elite III's on his Wing, and stated that he had gotten 16,000 miles on his last rear.
After only getting 10K on each of three standard Harley Dunlops, I put on an Elite III, and now have 10K on it, but it looks like I'll only get a couple more thousand and I'll be replacing it.
His comment was that a Harley will never get as good mileage on comparable tires, due to the pulsing of the V-Twin through the drive train, vs the even firing of a multi-cylinder bike like the Gold Wing.
Has anyone ever heard this before?
Comments?
EH ! Just tell him that Harley riders never run a tire till its BALD.
Ultra vs Gold Wing Tire Mileage
