The dealer looked at me funny when I had this tire installed. I drive 75 miles round trip everyday rain or shine on my 05 f4i. I got 7200 miles out of the dunlop 207 that came on the bike from the dealer. And am hoping that by going to a harder compound tire that I will get some more mileage out of this tire. I have scuffed the new tire up pretty good, as far as I have driven it 100miles in varied conditions.. I have not noticed a huge difference in handeling at all..

Here is the thing I had set my sag and clutch and shocks during the first year that I owned the bike, I picked up the bike and during the "tire install" they set everything back to OEM standards.. WTF? Now I have to set it all back up. This is the first time the dealer has touched my baby. I do all my own oil changes and what not.. WHY would they adjust my suspension settings?????

I'd ask them and if they give you some bull**** reason like its policy I would tell them not to touch any of the other things and that I payed for a tire change not a warp back to stock settings. They have never touched mine before, I dunno why they would do it to yours.

yeah that's odd. i'd be pissed if they did that to my bike. drop your bike off for a new tire... get a new tire - period. pretty simple if you ask me.

Anyone else running this tire?

the thing that bothers me about keeping tires too long is after they go thru so many heat cycles they get hard and don't grip very good. i had a set of 207's on my old zx6 and i hated them they had plenty of tread left but hard as i wish i could stay mosts of the time. for some reason i think tires only stay soft for maybe a year at most and when they start getting hard you notice the bike slipping where it use to not. if you don't spend much time in the corners get a touring tire it will last longer. maybe thats what you got with the tire you talked about.