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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on August 27, 2020, 03:02:12 PM
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6,300 miles on this 14" Maxxis. (higher priced Piaggios come with City Grips as standard)
I did 12,000 miles on a 12" City Grip and it had more tread left than this!....still had grooves all across the tire.
Getting real close to time to see how hard it is to remove a rear Liberty wheel. (at least it has a slip-on muffler and drum brake)
No City Grip avail. for the Liberty, so will be going with Pirelli Angels.
(https://i.postimg.cc/T3Lw6cxk/P1020921.jpg)
16" Front Maxxi looks barely worn....but won't be mixing tires - so it'll get an Angel, too.
(https://i.postimg.cc/t4SMhhVH/P1120696.jpg)
Stig
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The orange Kymco I just purchased has new Maxxis tires and a new battery.
I beleive you can get city grip in your size in UK and Greese, since they are manufactured I don't understand why they don't import them to the US. I guess not a large enough market to bother with.
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The orange Kymco I just purchased has new Maxxis tires and a new battery.
I beleive you can get city grip in your size in UK and Greese, since they are manufactured I don't understand why they don't import them to the US. I guess not a large enough market to bother with.
Not many (any other?) skinny-tired big-wheel scooters sold here.
That skinny front looks like it'd go 18,000 miles if I'd let it.
I don't have trouble with cracking or 'aging' with my tires. Maybe because of my gentle riding style, or the time of day I ride, and - if I'm not riding - they're parked indoors.
Frankly I think folks freak unnecessarily about tires failing due to age, as I can't recall the last time anyone reported an exploded tire. (on any vehicle)
If I was pushing a big bike at a ton while playing on the interstate - I'd likely rethink my attitude 😊
Stig
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As long as there is no dry rot (cracking) in the tires I don't worry so much about age. Like you all my bikes/scooters are parked inside storage.
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6,300 miles on this 14" Maxxis. (higher priced Piaggios come with City Grips as standard)
I did 12,000 miles on a 12" City Grip and it had more tread left than this!....still had grooves all across the tire.
Getting real close to time to see how hard it is to remove a rear Liberty wheel. (at least it has a slip-on muffler and drum brake)
No City Grip avail. for the Liberty, so will be going with Pirelli Angels.
(https://i.postimg.cc/T3Lw6cxk/P1020921.jpg)
16" Front Maxxi looks barely worn....but won't be mixing tires - so it'll get an Angel, too.
(https://i.postimg.cc/t4SMhhVH/P1120696.jpg)
Stig
Car tire, car tire, car tire...there an echo in here? Achilles 13" on the rear of the ole DT300i, Amazon 35 bucks. Got about 4000 miles on it so far and you cannot tell of any wear....
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6,300 miles on this 14" Maxxis. (higher priced Piaggios come with City Grips as standard)
I did 12,000 miles on a 12" City Grip and it had more tread left than this!....still had grooves all across the tire.
Getting real close to time to see how hard it is to remove a rear Liberty wheel. (at least it has a slip-on muffler and drum brake)
No City Grip avail. for the Liberty, so will be going with Pirelli Angels.
(https://i.postimg.cc/T3Lw6cxk/P1020921.jpg)
16" Front Maxxi looks barely worn....but won't be mixing tires - so it'll get an Angel, too.
(https://i.postimg.cc/t4SMhhVH/P1120696.jpg)
Stig
Tom when you remove the muffler, do it very slowly if it has a gasket if it comes apart it takes 4 weeks to get one from Piaggio, unless your local dealer has them in stock, for my B V 350 cost 35.00 Ea. my local dealer has O stock !!!
Car tire, car tire, car tire...there an echo in here? Achilles 13" on the rear of the ole DT300i, Amazon 35 bucks. Got about 4000 miles on it so far and you cannot tell of any wear....
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Stig / Major Tom, that tire looks to be totally squared off! Do you have any curvy roads you ride on? 8)
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Stig / Major Tom, that tire looks to be totally squared off! Do you have any curvy roads you ride on? 8)
Thanks for your concern.
I'm not much of a knee dragger - and car tire guys kinda prove that a square-ish tread is not certain death😊
Stig
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I'd be happy to get 6400 miles out of a rear tire on ANY of my current bikes. The City grip on my Like lasted 5400 miles and was more worn out than yours is. I have Pirelli Angels on my Like now. I doubt the rear Angel will last 6400 miles but it might come close. It's too early to tell right now as I only have around 2500 on it.
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My experience is similar to Klav's. Not in terms of riding--not even close--but rear tire mileage.
5700 on a Duro and 6000 on a Conti-Scoot. And I'm just 150 lbs. We'll see how the current Power Pure fairs.
12,000 on a City Grip rear (or any make) with a 250 lb rider is quite impressive.
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Never bought a used scooter that hadn't had the tires replaced before 10k miles. John G ought to be expert on tires with all the miles he rides.
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6K on a rear? Seems perfectly acceptable to me Stig. Think 4K's all I got on my lightweight PCX and I doubt the X-Town Kenda will get more than 4 - and that's if I leave it to wear out, which I doubt!
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6K on a rear? Seems perfectly acceptable to me Stig. Think 4K's all I got on my lightweight PCX and I doubt the X-Town Kenda will get more than 4 - and that's if I leave it to wear out, which I doubt!
Yeah...so I keep reading.
Got spoiled by Michelins....been rolling on at least two of them for decades😊
Soon as it cools down in the garage - I'll go tackle that rear wheel. It'll be slow going with several unexpected problems if my mechanical history is any indicator.
Stig
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I got 20000km out of my City Grips. Still have them somewhere in the garage. I'll take a picture of them tomorrow.
The ones that are on the scoot now have 13000+km.
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I have a friend with a Vespa 250 GTV. He wore out a rear city grip in around 2500 miles. He is going to try a Pirelli Angel next. He already put a Pirelli on the front. I don't thin he got 5K out of the City Grip on the front.
Why did they wear out so fast?
That's what happens when you spend a lot of time on roads like these:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/2020-BTH/i-7hPJqRB/0/33efad54/XL/P8040120-XL.jpg)
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/2020-BTH/i-5TPNxj6/0/d5fd7795/XL/P8040165-XL.jpg)
At least the tires don't get squared off.
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Far as CG wear on big wheel scoots go I can claim real good life on 2 SYMs and a Kymco.
I just replaced a rear on the mainSYM at around 12-13k. It still had tread left, but I'd taken a nail and there was some belt damage from that incident so it just wasn't quite the same after. The Front's fine but I may end up replacing it on age.
The Kymco S200 had about 6k on it, all but 500 on the CG, it was going strong, no issues on front or rear. I sold it after that so no clue.
I tortured those tires with thousands of hot freeway miles. They did great in the the Dragon too!!
The secondary SYM has about 5k on a set of CGs. They're 5 years old so they get inspected, but are fine (garage stored in the damp PNW).
Basically I'm a fan; albeit I'm curious about the Angels since they appear to have been created to compete head to head with the CG, complete with better siping.
I note the CG 2, not quite in this country yet, has similar siping to the Angel. I liked the old one, so I'm real curious about the new ones.
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As user of over 400 motorcycle/scooter tires since 1955---I am aware of one rear tire right now that wears ROUND and lasts a long time----Michelin Power Pure SC, if you find one that fits your scooter, you should be happy. For me, I hate rear tires that wear square, and may affect handling or feel in their life time.
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Something else riders should be complaining about=the amount of mickey mouse to remove rear wheel from scooter. I equals real pain in butt! And to think scooters used to come with spare wheel (European) and easy remove wheels. I am on 11th new maxi scooter since 1990 and rear wheel removal the same pain---I think at least one model BMW scooter has one sided rear wheel removal.....and to think power unit is Kymco, but not the price.
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I accelerate hard from lights and sit way back on my GV 250's and get around 5000 miles on a rear tire, 10K on a front. Perhaps that's why?
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I got 20000km out of my City Grips. Still have them somewhere in the garage. I'll take a picture of them tomorrow.
The ones that are on the scoot now have 13000+km.
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These are my City Grips with 20000km.
Still have them because sometimes I need to take the fuel tank off my motorcycle, so I put it on these tires.
Got the rear down to the wear mark, the front was still ok, but the tires had very bad grip on the wet the last few thousand km.
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The City Grips on my scooter now with 13000km(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200831/2f5842bb953855de2980b8795561064b.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200831/2f8b11ec86dc61786d4b4a85aa1e9a1d.jpg)
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Just seen a ad for Michelin rain tire for scooters in a UK vendor, never seen them before.