What kind of tire life do you get?

This is my first sportbike with radial tires and soft compound tires, and I'm used to getting a lot of mileage...

My Pirelli Diablo Corsa rear tire is showing the core and it only has 2600 miles on it. From your experience, is this typical wear or did the previous owner do a burnout on it and wear it down early?

I am buying another rear Corsa for now, because I like to keep the front and rear tires matched, and the front has plenty left on it.

I'd be interested in learning if this is typical tire life, and your experience with what tires hold up longer. I mainly commute on this bike, with a little canyon riding on days off. I like the tires sticky, but as a commuter, I am willing to trade *a little* stickiness much for longer tire life.

 

My stock tire lasted 4200 miles and plenty of tread still on it. I ran over a screw or else i would have put more miles on it. The dealer was amazed my tire last as long as it did. I never did any burn outs with it either.

 

It all depends on what size of bike, type of tire, how hard you ride, what your roads are made of, yada yada. For the most part, sportbike rear tires usually don't last a real long time. Me I usually get about 10k out of my rear, but I use sport touring tires since I put so many miles on my bike. A softer compound tire like a Pilot Power, Metz M1, etc will wear out much quicker, usually 4-5k miles, compared to something like a Metz Roadtec Z6 or Pilot Road (which is what I'm running now, on my 2nd rear. 1st replaced at 8k due to flat but still had plenty of tread). Just have to try a few different tires and see what you like and what holds up to your riding style

 

I have an 2006 CBR1000RR and my Diablo tire went to steel cord in the middle at 3500 miles.
I live on a very challenging curvey road that I drive 20 miles to work,then 20 back.
I drive it hard with alot of hard decels to slow down for corners.
Seems like your tires may have had some previous excessive wear situation.
I am on Dunlop Qualifiers right now and they seem to corner more positively.
My new tires are just as sticky as the Diablo but I still getting used to the different lean feeling.
cbrmarshall, later..........

 

My factory Dunlop Sportmax tire was premmaturely replaced because of a freaking screw on the edge of the tread (but it never lost air when I screwed it in). So I did a couple of standing burnouts to get some happiness from the situation.....then I replaced it with the Dunlop Qualifier.

I had about 4100 miles on it, but it was also getting a pretty bad flat spot (almost bald), so I had only about 500-800 miles left on it anyway. Usually on a soft compound tire, (on my 600RR anyway), I expect about 5000 miles. You have a 1000RR with much more power, so if I were you, I would expect about 4000 miles usage. (unless of course you get a freaking screw).