Tire wear

[defendr]

I put the PCS lowering kit on my Raider and with the stock tire I never had any trouble. It lasted about 8,000 miles. I then put a Dunlop 240 on and that is where the trouble started. Every time I hit a good bump the tire hit the fender well. I hated it so much because the tire was alot taller and raised my bike back to almost stock. Took it off and put a stock metz back on and the problem went away. I am only 230 pounds and it happened with just me on the bike, nevermind when I had my wife on the back. I am very happy with the stock tire and they last for a long time. Yamaha put a 210 on the bike for a reason. It is fun to try something different though it was a waste of money for me.

[blebs]

I'm hard on the throttle and probably should have maxed out the air pressure, but I went through my stock Metz in about 3500 miles. Then I babied it for another 1000 miles before putting on a new 240 Metz.

Also, I'm tempted to bet my bike that there is no way the dynabeads are going to work. On a spin balancer they would collect at exactly the opposite place stated (i.e. They will collect at the heaviest point in the tire, since the hub will wobble out at that point and be furthest from the axle. Same case for an out of round tire.)

A tire spining on the road is another case altogether. While riding, any point on a tire travels in a bunch of cascading parabalas - picture a bunch of semi-circle humps. A bead at any particular spot would experience a sudden deceleration and then an acceleration horizontally with each and every revolution of the tire, and also a vertical deceleration/acceleration (which is out of phase). In short, the beads will get thrown around, they will not stay put.

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[Bumblebee Bob]

I put the PCS lowering kit on my Raider and with the stock tire I never had any trouble. It lasted about 8,000 miles. I then put a Dunlop 240 on and that is where the trouble started. Every time I hit a good bump the tire hit the fender well. I hated it so much because the tire was alot taller and raised my bike back to almost stock. Took it off and put a stock metz back on and the problem went away. I am only 230 pounds and it happened with just me on the bike, nevermind when I had my wife on the back. I am very happy with the stock tire and they last for a long time. Yamaha put a 210 on the bike for a reason. It is fun to try something different though it was a waste of money for me.

I ran into the same problem with the Dunlop on my lowered bike too. But I put an Avon 240 on in July and am loving it! No more tire rubbing and the great wide tire look! Plus the Avon is lasting longer too. The Dunlop barely lasted a year. About 7000 miles or so. The Avon has around 3500 to 4000 miles on it and still has most of it's tread left.

[defendr]

I took off the Dunlop after 2500 miles because I couldn't stand the rubbing. Best decision I ever made to put the 210 back on. Live and learn I guess.

[distantThunder]

Currently running an Avon 240 here. Absolutely no problems with that tire - it's really a good one. Sounds as though the Dunlop 240 has sidewalls that are too thin. I think that's your problem. The Avon 240 does not rub anything - other guys are also using it, and they've had no problems with it either.

Can't speak for the 240 Metz ... I've never used it. I do know one guy who rode with it, and lost traction during a corner. But he managed to maintain control and it regained friction, and he was OK. Metz rubber is a bit notorious for not having good traction on slightly-wet surfaces. However, this incident could have been my friend's fault and not the Metz rubber - he's infamous for cornering super-hard on his Raider :-)

dT