Wilsons Sandbox

My bike is an '08. I ride only on the street, in a rural coastal setting of small towns and secondary highways. Because I ride only on the street, I use street-tire pressures of 30 front, 33 rear. The factory front tire lasted about 3300 miles. I replaced both factory tires with Mefo's. The Mefo front lasted about 5500 miles. The rear still has good tread. The tires have performed well on both dry and wet pavement, so I just now repaced the front with another Mefo. The Mefo supply chain is spotty. If you are thinking of buying Mefo's, you might start looking for them a while before you need them. One distributor with Mefo's consistently on hand is Twisted Throttle. If your dealer orders, they ship free. If you order, you pay shipping. A note: I use motorcycles as primary transportation: the KLR and an '04 BMW1150RT. I've a street bar on the KLR-- from a Yamaha 650XS-- and a Laminar Lip. The rear sprocket is one tooth down from factory. Those changes produced a bike that cruises happily at 60-65 mph, even in the wind that we live with during the Oregon coast summers. Increasingly, the BMW has stayed in the garage, and its expensive periodic servicings empty my wallet less frequently. (Because the BMW has a 6,000-mile service interval and now 88,500 miles on its odometer, there have been rather a lot of those.) Tom Burke All