Ok, here's my beeyotch about metzeler. Well other than being overpriced they are lousy in wet weather and found to my holy crap surprise this weekend the "long life" they advertise is hype. I just had it put on a few months ago and with well less than 5K miles on it it was bald and bald, in the rain is bad medicine.
Before I left on my trip to ohio I checked my tires, pressure and conditions. the front a bridgestone excedra is in great shape with about 7k give or take on it the rear, a metzeler me 880, a tire I had to buy so I could ride home and like said, less than 5k had so/so adequate tread left, a change next season appearance...so I thought.
Riding home monday morning in the rain I slow to turn onto an on ramp to I-77 and then everything gets ugly. An event i've done thousands of times, ease on the brakes and downshift smoothly...no dropping the clutch all goes easy but not then the rear starts sliding up on me I cut the front wheel to counter nearly recovering it dives but I was going slow enough that it really ended up as more of a fall than a slide. Thanks for my cheap viking bag for eating the bump intead of my turn signal. I checked everything out and all good except for that tire. With no other way home I "walked it" back to va, everyone passed me but speeding along on a bologna skin in the rain isn't a ride I want to repeat or suffer any injury from.

Maybe I got the tire that wasn't inspected... Nah, the one I put on my intruder slid bad (new) on water, maybe others have had better luck with them, maybe so all I know is it's the last my R* will ever see.

Wow... I allways hear good things about those tires. Erbman gets like 15k on a rear tire with 9 sets running.

WOW glad your OK I have had good service out of mine but never get over about 8K out of my rear. I do have a direct drive rear pulley so they tend to wear out faster.

smokescreens wrote:
Wow... I allways hear good things about those tires. Erbman gets like 15k on a rear tire with 9 sets running.
+1 I'll never use anything but metz after Ive run everything else in 30 years. Hard to understand...ive ridden in rain alot and metz worked better for me than anything. Always get 10 k+ out of the rear.
Weird how everybodys different with the same product.
Glad your ok.

Blackroadie wrote:
smokescreens wrote:
Wow... I allways hear good things about those tires. Erbman gets like 15k on a rear tire with 9 sets running.
+1 I'll never use anything but metz after Ive run everything else in 30 years. Hard to understand...ive ridden in rain alot and metz worked better for me than anything. Always get 10 k+ out of the rear.
Weird how everybodys different with the same product.
Glad your ok.

+1...nothing but the best service in the rain

best tire is shinko they are GREAT in the rain they are a softer compound so you will not get more then about 5000 on a rear but since i replaced my me 880's with them i will not go back

I hate riding in the rain but never had issue with my 880's in the rain...
I can't tell you the mileage on my tires cause I forgot to write it down when i installed the 880's

And what is up with the price of WWW 880's? I bought mine onsale a couple of years back and paid 125 for the rear and $100 for the front. Now the rears are close to 160-180

mkayx wrote:
best tire is shinko they are GREAT in the rain they are a softer compound so you will not get more then about
5000 on a rear but since i replaced my me 880's with them i will not go back


If i could get good milage out of kenda challengers i'd use them, used to run them on all of my beater suzy GS'es, great handling and stuck regardless the weather. Yeah no more metz for me either.Think i'll do some research on an actual touring tire or just go rogue and go to the darkside.

greenpus wrote:
And what is up with the price of WWW 880's? I bought mine onsale a couple of years back and paid 125 for the rear and $100 for the front. Now the rears are close to 160-180
Tires are made with oil aren't they? Oil prices are up. Just figures tires would go up too.