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7 Mar 2013
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Another vote for Heidenau here. You don't get much wetter that Yorkshire, the peaks and Wales in January!
The OEM Deathwings were binned at 600 miles. The Wee is a little top heavy but I've never known such a bad bike-tyre combo and I had MZ's on Pneumats. No idea why, these tyres have been fine on other bikes I've had. Something to do do with the 150 section rear maybe, F650's and the like are slimmer?
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hope this makes sense !
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Originally Posted by Walkabout
You don't say how many miles these tyres have done (I guess you don't know) but that wear pattern (front, back or both??) suggests that the previous owner/rider knew a lot of curvy roads and spent more time leaned over than upright.
If so, .... 
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The back tyre ( battlewing) is quite new - less than 1000miles ??
The front trailwing no idea but about half worn I guess?
If it were "curvy road syndrome" I would expect to see a equal wear band running around the tyre. The wear on this tyre is just on each of the tread chunks for want of a better description but just the red bits on pic. The outer tread chunks and inner "blue" chunks are proud of the "red chunks" :confused1:
Maybe the previous owner ran it flat for a long time for some reason, off road perhaps?
Anyway it has to go its just not good - had a wet journey today and it was terrible.
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The deathwings on the front of my XT have sort of that goofy wear also, some of the knobs are 1/8" shorter than the one right next to it. My bike acts like its on glare ice going down the gravel roads, even on pavement it is jerky like I've had a few pints too many. I have a set of IRC's GP110R, They had good ratings but probably not in the same class as Anakee's or Pirelli Scorpions( I have a front Scorpion ready to go on an XL, Dunlop 606 rear for more offroad on that bike).
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The deathwings on the front of my XT have sort of that goofy wear also, some of the knobs are 1/8" shorter than the one right next to it. My bike acts like its on glare ice going down the gravel roads, even on pavement it is jerky like I've had a few pints too many. I have a set of IRC's GP110R, They had good ratings but probably not in the same class as Anakee's or Pirelli Scorpions( I have a front Scorpion ready to go on an XL, Dunlop 606 rear for more offroad on that bike).
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Glad some else has this weird tread wear. I have scratch my head a lot trying to work out why and wondered if there was an issue with the bike! I agree it does feel a bit like being on ice in the wet on tarmac for me. I have nearly finished the tread on my one, can't wait to get new "shoes" on it - perfect timing for a trip  Probably go with Battlewings for now, mainly because I have one here that's virtually unused the correct size for the back. That should see the summer trip out ok.
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I wonder if they have different compound in some of the knobs. It just doesn't seem possible for them to actually wear that way but they do. Its like some are hard and wear resistant and mixed in some are soft and get chewed up faster.
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