Rick, You'll hear lots of mileage claims on lots of tires (someone once said they got 14K mi out of a BT57 I got about 6.5Kmi at most). If you ride mostly twisties and at a good rate you're not going to get much mileage out of any tire since the GTS is a bit heavy and hard on front tires when pushed. You can get harder compound tires that will last a bit longer but you'll give up grip for the type of riding it looks like you prefer. Good Luck on your search and let us know what you find, BTW what tire pressures are you running?...Bob B.
(ps I got about 7+Kmi out of the Pirelli GTS, on a set of Azaro II's now but too early for mileage guesses, also it's about 100 miles to decent twisties for me) -----Original Message----- From: Rick Davids [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tires and Mileage I know...not another tire thread! I could probably find my answer in the archives....but there's just too damn many tire threads to wade through. Well, I got a very disappointing 3,500 miles out of my Pirelli Dragon GTS front tire. My lowside crash came after about 1500 miles, so I haven't been cornering all that hard since then(almost no peg scrapes). Still there's virtually no tread left between the center and the edge of the tire. That is to say there's a little left in the center and a bit more left near the edge but nothing in between. I guess about 2,500 miles of the 3,500 was on twisty roads. So, has anyone that ran the Dragon got better milage out of a different tire?
