Tyre price increase alert

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

At least one of the players in the motorcycle tyre market is planning a 10% increase across the board on Sept 1.

Buy now, fit later

[dibbs]

I have done just that! bought a set of Trackers for the crf300l £105.00 i think, bet they will be nearer £150.00 by Nov/Dec

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

You're not wrong

[Snaf MKII]

I thought they'd already gone up by +10-20% in the last year.

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

They have....especially tyres imported from Asia, because of increased container shipping costs. Many of the cheapest Chinese horrors in the car and truck markets are no longer imported for this reason. The bloke who imports Motoz tyres put out a statement about how the cost of a container to the UK went up by several 100% in the wake of the EverGiven getting stuck in the Suez canal.

This fresh increase is driven by the price of energy/oil and will apply to tyres made in Europe too. Making tyres is an energy-intensive business, and many of the ingredients are derived from hydrocarbons.

I had to buy some car tyres recently and found that the medium-price tyres I usually get were now less than a fiver under the price of a premium brand. So I got the premium tyres in the hope they will be more durable (Michelin on my car and Bridgestone on Kate's).

I've put a new tyre on the back of the Aprilia, the Beta has nearly-new tyres anyway, and the Mitas on the big KTM are only half worn. I'm tired out!

[Yoyo]

I remember buying pairs of standard Tourance tyres from M&P for £99 a pair, 2 years later and they're £189 a pair.

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[Snaf MKII]

At least in Cornwall you're allowed to wear them down to the cord

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

At least in Cornwall you're allowed to wear them down to the cord

I went trail-riding with a party of farmers last winter. They were using the bikes they use to get the cows in. One had what I first thought was a novel front tyre design...mostly a slick on the centre, but with about one knob in three present.
I asked him about it...and it was a 'normal' tyre, just horrendously worn.
"I got it Mot'd last week, by phone," the owner told me.
You can't say Cornwall isn't a pioneer in finding novel uses for modern technology !
A great day riding...not all the lanes were legal in the strictest sense of the word, but they are if you are riding with the guy who owns the land!

[Treadtrader]

I run my own tyre business. Yes, prices have increased steadily in the last two years.
Problem is there are no British plants still producing tyres. Everything is imported. I see a lot of premium brand tyres now made in Chinese factories.
Some manufacturers have stopped shipping to UK blaming brexit.
Motorcycle tyres are in short supply, more so than car tyres.
Can’t see it improving soon.

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

A truck-driving mate tells me a colleague had a job shifting all the car tyre tooling out of Cooper Tyres (formerly Avon) in Melksham to a new plant in Serbia. They could't make the tyres round enough, and he's been sent to fetch it all back again! The motorcycle and racing car tyres are still made in Melksham, for the moment.
Oh, the joys of putting our industries in foreign ownership.
Michelin still makes truck tyres in Stoke-on-Trent, and I think that's about it.