I have a tuff question i need help ON?

[Daytona]

Has anyone else had to wrestle with this?? When is it the rite time to replace your tires? I know there isn't a fits all answer. I mount, balance my own. Bike is used for commuting 98% of the time. Almost no squidly riding done on this bike! but will go over the posted limit by a good %. 22 miles one way to or from work, I 95. 17 of the 22 super slab riding. To work 2pm back at about midnite to 3am. Lots of semi 's on the road coming back that late. The problem i find is rite now i have time to change it, but will next weekend or thru the week if need be! My rear tire is just @ the 2/32 wear bar on a patch of about 10 inches of the tire. The rest of the tire isn't.Tire rides ok,has a couple of little cuts that don't look threatening. I'm thinking let it ride another week, i don't feel like messing with it today! Chain could use an adjustment, brake pads are less than half worn, no other reason to remove the wheel but to change the tire! Front tire will last another rear. This is the first time I've gotten 7k on a rear tire! Totally thanks to the Stinko 009, which seems pretty thick after it gets to the 2/32 bar, probing in cut. When i change them i cut thru the middle with a blade & then cut the bead with dikes, so i look to see what safety meat i had! Avon's & Continentals were scary thin when they got to the wear bar limit! Just would rather sit in front of this thing and ask than to take action! Best wishes to anyone affected with still another weather disaster! Indiana/Kentucky area. If i don't change it will the concern of other than a safe tire make me wish i did? not to mention if it goes flat, or worse??? Anyone taken a chance and regretted it!!!?

[oremike]

I change mine at the wear bars, if I don't they nag me in the back of my mine and I don't want to ride far from home. Kinda takes the fun out of riding for me. I like to be able to just go, all day, wherever, whenever.
Mike M.

[terrebandit]

I generally don't take chances with tires, especially when going on a longer trip.  If I'm just doing some local riding, I'll run it down until there is basically no discernable tread in the center of the rear tire.   I see guys all the time that run them down until cord is showing.   I don't EVER run a front tire down past the wear bar.  A flat on a front tire is much more dangerous than one on a rear tire.

My strategy has caught up with me, a time or two, by running over something as small as a staple or small carpet tack.  I've never had a rear tire "blow out".

Dave

[FrankB12]

I have ridden past the wear bars on the rear tire before, with no ill effects.  But I ride my bike primarily for recreation, on dry roads - not for work.  Since you're using your bike to go to work, I'd be nervous about getting caught out in the rain at the end of your shift.  A lot can happen in 8 hours.

If you keep an eye on the weather, and have a car as a second option, then you should be ok on dry days.

Otherwise, park it and order that replacement tire.  

[Daytona]

The thing that makes this so bothering is i have two rear tires on hand! A stinko 009 190  which i intend to put on next to run with the mating front which will last thru another rear, and a Mich Mac which i will use up someday w/a Dunlop front. But lack the motivation this weekend. Just wanted some input to see if I'm taking a chance that has bitten others! I seem to want too much out of a tire! This one has 7k on it which is the most i ever got! I read where others run up to 15k on the same bikes! I guess i wanted to know if there was any others that do the same thing? procrastinate and suffer all the time I'm on it especially at 3am next to a 95 per hr 18 wheeler !!!  

[KX5000]

I say change the tire or drive your cage. Tires are nothing to play with, especially on 95  

[Daytona]

Hey I'm back from installing my Shinko rear tire! Glad its on! no more procrastinating for me! I got another week 200+ miles out of it, and i must say these tires are very impressive even when you look at the guts of em! The 009 still has a good bit of rubber 2/32's left even after it was smooth! Can't say that for other tires close to this $ range! For the low air pressure track rider i will add this! the 009 which isn't a track tire, came off the bead easier than any other I've changed! I cut thru the baldest spot with a razor knife, (check out how much was left) cut to the bead, side cutter the steel! slip new one on with armoral! 45 min job start to finish now I've been thru it 7 times. I was braggin about my PC the other day on this site, it crashed rite after! power supply I'm almost sure? won't do anything now! Anyone had one do this and not hurt anything else?