How did we end up talking about tires? A minimal concern next to thousands of gallons of gas and CO2. An 80mpg bike is much greener than a 40mpg car. Get one and start riding it to replace the use of your car whenever possible. And, fuel efficiency and motorcycles are two words that have only recently been considered together outside of India and Southeast Asia where the average bike gets 120mpg at 35mph and sells for $1600. Bike companies could do much better if they thought anyone wanted it. Honda could re wrap the CBR250R with a recumbent seating position and aero body work to sell a 100mpg all weather (above freezing) highway commuter with a trunk for $6000 if they thought anyone would buy it. Vote for it with your wallet. Buy a CBR250R. Ride it everywhere, all the time. A rolling billboard toward sustainability. And spread the word that we want even better fuel economy from better bodywork on two and three wheelers and maybe someday one of the big companies will sell one affordably. RIP Aptera. Their styling would have been a quantum leap forward.
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ps. car tires last for 35,000 miles as a high average. I work at a car dealership.
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Originally Posted by roflwaffle
How many miles do you get out of a set? Sure, four tire on my cat at ~22lbs each is ~90lbs, but they'll also do ~100k miles, and I've never heard of people routinely getting 30+k miles out of two 15lb motorcycle tires. 10-15k average seems to be what the longer lasting tires are at, which is still two to three times the rubber a car uses. Crotch rockets are even worse.
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