My Scorchers are wearing evenly. I'm not a canyon carver by any stretch and I don't put a lot of miles on my bike. I have something like 6K on it now and the tires are doing well. My riding habits usually involve country roads and very little highway miles just to give an idea of what my tires are subject to due to my riding style and use.

 

my tires were doing just fine. although i did change both cause i couldnt find any so as soon as i did i had them changed. 2 different dealers to get both, so i will be fine until we have them in stock or we wont be able to get any. time will tell.

 

The Scorcher is a soft rubber compound, that's why it wears faster then other tires. 9,000 miles is really good.

I put a Commander II on my rear and a Scorcher on the front of my 18' Fatboy. I was getting good wear, but had a long trip planned. Only have 2500 on the new tires, but they still look new. I put the original tires in my garage just in case.

 

Alright so 200 mile update with these new Bridgestone Tires, 150/70 R18 Adventure A41(Reversed Direction) in the front, 240/40 R18 H50 Battlecruise in the rear.

Initially, as I was breaking the tires in there was this significant resistance to wanting to counter-steer. However as the tire wore in this largely has gone away. It is a little bit harder to countersteer with this front tire than the previous front tire.
THAT BEING SAID...
The bike responds better to body position and leaning input, and turns into corners easier, especially at low speed compared to the new tires.
I have scraped floorboards with these tires where I've never done that on the old tires.
I have noticed significantly though that these tires really REALLY like to grab stuff on the road. Lines, cracks, bumps, ect. These tires you can feel the front sinking into them and following them, where as the old tires didn't do this at all.
The front tire especially now will pick up gravel and toss it upwards into the fender.

Wet performance wise, I have broken the rear tire loose on wet roads already, when hammering the throttle to get out of the way of a car.
However, this was within the first 60miles that I did this, I haven't done it since.
I have noticed that the front tire gives off much less water spray compared to the old tire. The old tire it was very noticeable how much water would spray off the front in heavy rains, it almost looked like I was riding a jetski. The new tire doesn't seem to do this in as equally heavy rain.

So far these tires are turning out to be a little bit more increased handling with a noticeable increase in wanting to turn into corners when they start to lean.
I have yet to find some twisty roads to really see how grippy, and how well they handle in curves at speed. At some point I will also find some packed dirt and mildly unkempt roads to see if they have any real application off the pavement.

I'm not sure why the initial counter-steering force feels more resistant, while also turning more easily, but I find it kind of interesting.
Bridgestone does claim that the H50 Battlecruise tires take much less input to steer over other tires. Maybe the effect is coming from the rear's design?

I'll do another update at 500miles

Also I finished up with the chroming of the handlebar controls today.
I need to get the heated grips installed at some point, and install the new mirrors to finish up the black parts removal on the bars.

 

Thanks, nice review. Interesting comment on scraping the boards. I routinely scrape mine (and the exhaust at times) with the stock tyres with no grip issues what so ever. Looking forward to the next 500 report as you build more miles on them.

 

Just curious, what's your experience like in the rain vs the OEM tires, if you have any? I haven't had any troubles with the OEM but I live in a particularly rainy area and ride daily, so I'm always on the lookout for any cold/wet weather improvements.

 

So like, today I learned that if you flash your bike with the Stock Improved tune from Dynojet, it removes your speed limiter, or at least increases it.
Ask me how I learned this today... lmao

 

Does anyone know if there are any other brands other than Harley that makes the flush mount gas tank caps? I can find a lot of different ones for the right side but nothing other then HD for the fake cap on the left.

 

I looked everywhere...the aftermarket only supplies the gas cap and not the dummy. I ended up going with the Harley flat caps. Although the left is plastic, it's not a bad piece and it looks like real chrome.

I tried to find a good pic but this is the best I have.

Steve

 

I know this is a biased thread, but I'm in the process of choosing a bike to trade my Low Rider S for. Want more comfort, especially seating position. A touring is out of the picture, so it'll either be a FatBoy or Heritage. Why would I pick the Fatboy over the Heritage, or why not?