JMo, what sort of milage did you get from the TCK80's on sections that were mostly road/highway.

Had my Ten in for 18k service and they pointed out my BT45 rear is almost worn at only 6k miles (I got 12 from the sirac with tread left to spare). I was planning to fit Tourances next but if the TCK80 has enough tread depth I'm tempted to try them instead.

Granted I almost exclusively ride motorway/dual carriageway but the tck's should give me the confidence to try a little bit of offroad I hope

If you ride 90% on road then the Tourances would be the tyre I would choose to get the best milage and grip :bike:

Oh, it's difficult to remember now, as I did tend to do a fair bit of mixed riding... but I would say you should get around 4000-5000 miles from the rear (I'd say 4000 is about max if you've any hope of them being still good off road, but you'll get another 1000 on road still), and 7000-8000 on the front until they are similarly worn.

Like most knobblies on road, the front tyre blocks tend to wear alternately (typically due to the braking forces I understand), but they are still pretty comfortable even at 7000+ miles, even if they look a bit like cogs. They are certainly not as bad as pukka enduro tyres in that respect.

Also, even when the rear is squared off (as they were when I arrived at Deal's Gap), they are still very predicable... as others have said, the Tenere ought to come with these as an OE fitment in my opinion - I'd say they are the definitive dual-sport tyre for this bike...

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Thanks for the quick response JMo (and Ricky)

The Sirac's did the same as you describe at the front, very heavily feathered/scalloped and alternatly worn block tread. That was a large part of why I replaced them before I'd worn all the tread down as being my first bike/set of tyres I had no way on knowing if any problems I was getting was caused by that or something else.
Also good to know the rear is predictable, again like the siracs and BT45's that are nearly worn at the reare. Seems to me that with a narrow width on the rear tyre that they never get really unfomfortably square with any tyre make or model?

I think I'm going to stick with my origional plan and try the tourances when I can (not sure whether to just use another bt45 rear until the front is worn or try the tourance with the bt45 front) as I don't think the TCK's will last long enough to be economical enough.

That said it could be that the much reduced life on the BT45 compared to the Sirac is down to me being more confident on the bike so just being harder on the throttle and tyres...although the Sirac does have a LOT more tread to wear down than the BT45.

I got over 8,000 miles out of the rear and nearer 12,000 out of the front from my GS1200 which is alot heavier the the Ten on Tourances, but they are useless on wet grass unless you are a compentent off road rider but OK on loose stones and fire/forest roads so you should get nearer 9-9.5k out of the rear easy

Take a look at Mitas.

E08 is similar to the Tourance and will be cheaper.

I've just ordered the E07, I've read lots of good reports about Mitas tyres.


Nick.

Argh, picking tires is a PITA. Maybe shouldn't think so much and just pick something for trial and error. :p Think I go for a Karoo on the back and a T63 at the front, could be a good combo. The Karoo/MT21 combo I had before worked great offroad but the MT21 was horrible on the solid stuff.

Just bought a pair of Heidenau K60s, to make a comparison with TKC80s which I've used before. The Heidenaus were just over �100 delivered, which I think is a bit cheaper than TKCs. TKCs are superb tyres, though. I'm fitting the Heidenaus at the weekend, so will report back when I've had them on for a while.