i have a 03 vrod and the front tire wares more on the throttle side than the belt side any ideas
If mainly city driving maybe, but 4 lane streets and highways have pitch to either side, crowned in the middle, so running the 2 outside lanes evens things up.Since you're US based, right side wear is not the norm.?
I've got a v-modded stock exhaust and I get the left side wearing out first too, so I don't think it has anything to do with removing the stock exhaust. This bike wears out tires, especially fronts, faster than any bike I've owned. My other bike has 40° of rake and it doesn't wear out as fast or unevenly.This is somewhat different than the gentleman on another post talking about throttle side tire wear. I have on my 09 A model an inordinate amount of left side tire wear and a number of post make me believe that is fairly common. My question, does the removal of the boat anchor exhaust cause this? Is the bike designed to have a nearly 50 pound exhaust on the right and when we balance the unladen bike would it tip it left and put more wear there? If I am thinking backwards, let me know. Does it effect anything, that is, the exhaust removal. Thanks and best to everyone.
Bad wheels bearings maybe and an unaligned rear wheel as well. Tire pressure is also something most ignore.Ok so throttle side means belt side. And if you are experiencing wear like this is one of two things. Bad bushings in the swingarm or a loose triple tree. Figure out which and get to fixing.....
Actually, front tires work very hard when braking. In fact they see much more pressure and abuse due to the dual discs.Vambo, I appreciate your pointing all of this information out, it is not luck at all that the tires stay together, it is the nature of the design to let the tire perform reverso or not.
here is some "other" input fromthe GSX forum with their input as well:
http://www.gixxer.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-273196.html
Not trying to make an issue out of anything by posting this stuff, but I say it is a crock of shite that stating a tire will come apart, especially a front tire that carries less load and does less work than a rear tire does. Maybe a rear, under hard acceleration and abuse over and over again...but hey, I've seen slicks come apart run in the supposed correct direction.
I've been tempted to flip the rear as well, if I had a tire machine I'd do it, the dealership won't do it for me as I have already checked.
Granted, if there are construction issues, where proper interlock of the materials from molten to plastic and finally hard rubber occur, then the tire is defective and would not make it to the market. If a defective tire makes it to market, I believe it would be in a short amount of time the tire would come apart.
If it is rain and getting wet one is worried about, well so be it, fair weather riding is part of everyones disposition anyway. At some point riding in the wet can push one to their physical limits, especially where cold is involved and then it is probablly best not to be on 2 wheels. In the end, regardless of which way the tire is mounted, your going to get wet.
Anyway, I'll continue to run the tires as needed to get the miles out of them.
Happy motoring!