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Road tyres for 2014 VStrom 1000
Hi, just bought a used 2014 VStrom 1000 on OE Battlewings and rears look pretty square at 5500 miles although 3-4mm tread. Will they last for a 4000 mile road trip as I am low on funds or do I replace with a road tyre ? I don't do off road and was thinking Pilot 4 for wet weather. What have others used for purely road travel ?
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I switched to Michelin Anakees on my DL (initially the 2 and then the 3).

Strong consensus in the UK that the Anakee is better than the Battlewing on the DL. I was using on road only and it was good.

Know others who happily used the Pilot as well.

On mileage my hunch is that you wont get 9500 out of a Battlewing - i am pretty sure i didn't. Check out www.v-strom.co.uk - lots of tyre threads there that will give you what you need.

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Hi,

Had a browse through and will go for Pilot R4

Cost in Teesside will be £243 fitted

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Pilot Road is a very good series but I used many other tires during my 80K miles aboard my '02 Vstrom.

For pure long life, the Metzeler Tourance is top of the list in my experience. Will outlast that Pilot Road 4 by 20% or so. Wears like iron yet is excellent in rain, handles well too.

I used just about every tire made for the bike, favs were Tourance, Mich Anakee,
Avon Distanzia. These tires are better than ANY road tire on wet roads due to wider, deeper tread sipes, high silica content. All excellent.

You can't go wrong with Pilot Road 4 but just won't match miles of the Tourance, which also beats Anakee and Distanzia on longevity.
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+2 on the tourance. closing in on 10k and mine barely look used after having been ridden on south florida's smokin hot roads and coral rock.
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+3 for Tourance. 2up +gear on dl650 and wear rate is very low.
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Dunno what Tourance model the guys above are referring to (?), but I doubt it will considerably outlast a PR4. And if you´re riding purely on the road, there´s no need to have anything else than a full on road tyre. The PR4 is quite simply the best wet weather tyre I´ve ever had on my bike, and definitely not bad in the dry either.
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I used Road Pilot 3s on a Versys and the sipe pattern and rain clearance capability was impressive.
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Hi,

Had a browse through and will go for Pilot R4
It would be good to hear how you get on with the PR4s.

Anything has to be better than an OEM fitting however.
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Man I guess I'm just lucky, I got 14k miles on my first set of trail wing tires and average about 10k per set now that I've switched to shinko. I'm on the first set of 705s right now, 3k in and they're doing fine, mostly road miles

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