Time for a new rear tire, car tire or bike tire ?

 
Mate all Insurance companies are a scam at the best of times, if your involved in an accident wether it's your fault or not and have an incorrect tyre fitted i think it's safe to assume those as-spirates will use that to get out of having to pay
 
If the warranty claim was attributed to the rear tire im sure the claim wouldnt of been honoured , ie: if your rear drive let go for whatever reason.
 
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Ive put mostly interstate miles on those tires I think in it's final days I may have had a bit to much air in it because the wear pattern is 3/4 of an inch wide in the center only, the rest of the tire looks great, and that is frustrating. Thanks for all the helpful information
 
Wrecka said:
Mate all Insurance companies are a scam at the best of times, if your involved in an accident wether it's your fault or not and have an incorrect tyre fitted i think it's safe to assume those as-spirates will use that to get out of having to pay
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You speak the truth brother, thank for the advice
 
I agree, 12000 on a metzler is quite impressive. At least + 50% greater from my experience. Im trying an Avon after having gone to the darkside for 13k. The Tread Wear component of the Rinken Raptor suxtd. A mere 13k compared to the usual 8k on a Metz. But the handling wasnt worth the difference. It was always a fighting tiring battle with the darkside. IF you gotta go darkside, go with a 500+ tread wear compound (twc). The Raptor 280 twc had the grip but not the mileage and in my opinion a 225 is all that is necessary to put the max meat on the pavement. Think about it, in turns the 240 Metz puts maybe 3 " of rubber to the road at all times. Going darkside reduces that fractionally on the hard turns while straight and level you have several more inches of ground patch contact. On the straight-aways you have mussle including off the line. But in the twisties youve lost that contact patch.
 


I don't know that such a clause exists. There are always exclusionary clauses, however, that prohibit all sorts of things (usually worded very generically) and they will exonerate the insurer from being liable to pay a claim. You can perform all the mods you want, legally or otherwise, however if you or your vehicle's failure is considered the proximate cause of damages, you can be taken to task for it and if that failure is traced to something that ain't kosher you can find yourself up chit's creek without recourse.

Like I said, most insurers will do anything they can to delay, deny or defend against a claim. Insurance companies have no greater a tendency to add a clause that explicitly prohibits all sorts of things that are dangerous or that are grounds for them to deny a claim or immediately render your policy and its coverage null and void than they are inclined to advise you to eat healthily or to wear ATGATT, but there no laws against ignorance or quirks of nature or choices that we are all free to make for ourselves whether they are harmful, ignorant, foolish or not. (weak analogy - I'm tired).
 
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Dont know who told you that about the warranty and insurance as I checked with my Triumph dealer before fitting one and he said as long as the DS tyre didn't cause a problem related to a warranty claim and I am with Shannons Insurance and they did not have problem as long as the tyre didn't cause the accident and just for the record when I high sided whilst avoiding T boning a Car performing an illegal turn in front of me which I did in fact not hit may be the tyre helped avoid maybe not but I do know that I would never run a Metz again!! incidentally I am running a Bridgy Excedra Max at the moment and love it in the twisties but I have recently bought a second rear rim which I will be fitting a DS tyre to for touring , I am speaking from actual experience not hearsay or others opinions I have no problems with riding with a car tyre and had I not had the chance to pick up the spare rim at a very reasonable price I would have gone back to a Car tyre after trying the Bridgestone (which I did like but Touring tends to chop the centre 1/3 of the tyre out more which shortens the life of the tyre) as I feel perfectly safe on a DS ................
............. now let the naysayers say what they like as I will not enter any pissing match arguments.

I might add that I respect TriumPhil's opinion as he has ridden on a DS tyre but didn't like it unfortunately he was using the same Toyo proxis R1 (or something like that) as my first Car tyre which had excessively soft sidewalls, my second Car tyre the Federal 595 never looked like going onto the sidewall nor do the Riken and some others, I Think this is because they are Hi performance tyres whilst the Toyo Proxis R1 is an ultra hi performance and designed with more sidewall flex and again for what it is worth these are just my opinions having done over 40,000km on DS tyres
 
Holy $hit this gets old!
With no offense intended to the aforehand, I have ridden a car tire motor and would not use one.
I totally respect anyone's right to do so. Those that do this have many issues to discuss such as fit size, profile, air pressure as they shop for the CT that best emulates a MC tire.
This is a thread dedicated to "The Dark Side".
Why don't we just allow folks to discuss their car tires in peace without continuous harassment?
This thread should be a safe zone.
 
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