Sorry to have spoiled your evening...Brenhden wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:06 pmdaveuprite wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 4:48 pmGood point Brenhden. But what if you do all the enduro riding AND spend hours down the pub....?
You sound like my ex wife...
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I tried that with my 690.....
So ended up buying the Husky 450 as I wasn’t good enough a rider to cope with the 690 on nadgery trails.
Then decided to sell my classic Triumph........
And ended up keeping it and the Husky and pxing the 690 for a new Triumph Street Twin.
So after trying to live with two bikes I’ve ended up with three again.
Plus I’m retired so can’t play the ride to work card.
And
NEVER NEVER NEVER add it all up.
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Yeah I am a bit hard on rear tyres. I just love spinning everywhere like a loon. Can't help it. If the bike isn't fishtailing about I'm not happy. Which does mean I get through a lot of Mich AC10s. It might be more like three rears per year in reality, but I largely destroyed one over 5 days off-road in Spain last month.
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Yeah, I'll still be using that tyre this Summer and it'll be fine in the dry stuff. But when we start doing the wet slippery ascents in the Autumn down at Phil's you need that edge and it'll be time for a new one.
I gather all my old tyres up sometimes and sell them as a cheap job lot to local lads who get more work out of them ragging around their farms.
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If you actually bought decent tyres you might get some gripdaveuprite wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:43 pmYeah I am a bit hard on rear tyres. I just love spinning everywhere like a loon. Can't help it. If the bike isn't fishtailing about I'm not happy. Which does mean I get through a lot of Mich AC10s. It might be more like three rears per year in reality, but I largely destroyed one over 5 days off-road in Spain last month.
The AC10 is Michelin's universally hated bastard child