Hi Guys,

I took a ride to my dealer today. He looked at my front tire and said that I should change it...I can hydroplane in the rain....

I said I have only 7800 miles on it...he said that the front tire should be changed at approx. 8000 miles....


Is this correct????


Thanks in advance...

 

If you need a new tire, You need a new tire... Are you sure your down to the ware bar's...That said 8 thousand sounds too soon
Approximately 14 thousand on the first tire... I have 23 thousand on the second tire... Both stock tires, Why the difference in miles... Not sure, Just one of those things that can't really be explained..

 

I had 2 Tri's. Used to get about 14,000 on front. On my FW I got 28,000.

 

Got 18000 on first tire and have 13000 on second and still lots of life

 

2/32" is when I changed mine I think that is what the book says. Maybe someone is over stocked with tires. Use a tire tread depth gage and see where you are. fearless

 

I put 95,000 miles on my 2009 Triglide and 20,000 on my 2015. Give or take a few, 15,000 miles is what I have been getting out of a front tire. But, this time around, I'm using the new Avon Trike tire. More info to follow.....

 

12,000 so far on my original Freewheeler front time and a lot of 'meat' left. Wife has 9,000 on her Tri and it also looks good. She will wear out before me, she uses a lot more front break than I do

With the breaks 'joined' in the newer models I rarely use the lever. I really wish they were reversed, lever operating both, pedal only the rear. Polaris has it that way on thier quads.

 

I changed my at 10k maintenance. I may have got another thousand on it, but was on my way out of town on a week long ride. I ride in hot weather, and use my front brake exclusively. I wasn't surprised to need it. Trikes only track on one part of the tire as we don't bank curves. I suspected it would be much faster than a 2 wheeler.

Better safe than sorry.

 

14K on the first one so far, and it still looks pretty good, like 3/32". I was going to have it changed anyway before a 2.5K mile New England trip, but the wife just had a triple bypass Tuesday, so that's out. I think I'll just finish the season off with it and get a new one next year now. Oh, and she's doing very well, they're thinking of sending her home tomorrow. She may be ready, me, I'm not so sure about...

 

I just changed my original Dunlop on my 2012 TriGlide at just a tick over 22000 miles. The tire didn't look bad to me and I didn't see the wear bars yet, but I just kept reading about how people weren't getting many miles and I succumbed to the peer pressure and I changed it.