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[Dennis R. Eastman]

Thanks for all the info. I have heard a lot of ++++ and a few --- and I am convinced that the K270's are for me. Being that I feel vertically challenged at 5'6" would it be better for me to go with the 3.00 ??? Would I really be missing much from the 3.25?? Seems to me that the advantage I would gain being a little closer to the ground would far outweigh the floatability? Is my thinking flawed??? The last time I did a little "Front End Plastic Adjustment" was mainly because I wasn't able to get a foot down in time. I have tried the lowering links and liked them for the road but didn't like bottoming out on the jumps. Thanks again. ~Dennis~ A15 Concord, NC

[Dennis R. Eastman]

>CA Stu

[RM]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Dennis R. Eastman wrote:

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In theory. I think that in reality, once the tire has been installed and inflated, the 3.25 ends up with a larger circumference.

[cactus_reese]

While everyone is singing praises of the K270s, I must point out that two listers have had the tread seperate and fall off the tire while traveling at speed. Neither were injured and Kenda was very good about replacing the tires. I, myself, have a K270 on the rear and have no complaints. It's worked very well for me for the last 1600 miles and it looks like I'll get at least 2000 more. -Bryan

[Lujo Bauer]

That's a sobering fact. I'd be interested to hear more about the tread separation, if you have the time. Were the tires near the end of their life or still new? Was it while traveling straight or in a curve? Hot weather or cold weather? Was it dismissed as a one-time occurrence or are there particular conditions under which the tires are more vulnerable? Thanks, -Lujo

> -----Original Message----- > From: cactus_reese [mailto:cactus_reese@...] > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:30 AM > To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [DSN_klr650] Re: Kenda K270 Tires > > > While everyone is singing praises of the K270s, I must point out that > two listers have had the tread seperate and fall off the tire while > traveling at speed. Neither were injured and Kenda was very good > about replacing the tires. I, myself, have a K270 on the rear and > have no complaints. It's worked very well for me for the last 1600 > miles and it looks like I'll get at least 2000 more. > -Bryan

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[William Valerio]

I've got 5500 miles on my Kenda 270s and they appear to have enough tread for another 1000 miles.

>It's worked very well for me for the last 1600 miles and it looks like I'll get at least 2000 more.

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[cactus_reese]

When this happened to Steve Anderson (the list's GPS expert) he reported that he was in Baja, had plenty of tread left, and was going within the rated speed of the tire. He did say that he had the bike loaded up pretty heavy. The other guy it happened to was someone in the New York area (maybe "Tumu"). -Bryan A12 Tucson

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "Lujo Bauer" wrote: > That's a sobering fact. I'd be interested to hear more about the tread > separation, if you have the time. Were the tires near the end of their > life or still new? Was it while traveling straight or in a curve? Hot > weather or cold weather? Was it dismissed as a one-time occurrence or are > there particular conditions under which the tires are more vulnerable? > > Thanks, > > -Lujo > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cactus_reese [mailto:cactus_reese@y...] > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:30 AM > > To: DSN_klr650@y... > > Subject: [DSN_klr650] Re: Kenda K270 Tires > > > > > > While everyone is singing praises of the K270s, I must point out that > > two listers have had the tread seperate and fall off the tire while > > traveling at speed. Neither were injured and Kenda was very good > > about replacing the tires. I, myself, have a K270 on the rear and > > have no complaints. It's worked very well for me for the last 1600 > > miles and it looks like I'll get at least 2000 more. > > -Bryan > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Zachariah Mully]

Yeah, it was Tumu... I think he rode to Wisconsin without stopping on a new set of K270's. About half way there he noticed that the rear tire was beginning to chunk. Then again, he claims to have been running WFO for at least 12 hours, and Kenda claimed that there was a QC problem with his batch of tires. So I figure, two reports out of how many listers? If I listened to everyone who had tire problems, I wouldn't be running any tires, in fact, I wouldn't be riding. A friend with a KTM640LC4 (ex-bike, switched to an XR) swore he couldn't get more than a thousand miles out of Pirelli MT21's before they chunked themselves to death. Whatever. I have Kenda's on both my mountain bike and my KLR and I think that they're a deal and a good tire in both cases. Though my MTB tires were $15/ea and my KLR tires were only $25/$40... How does that work? Z DC

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 11:04, cactus_reese wrote: > When this happened to Steve Anderson (the list's GPS expert) he > reported that he was in Baja, had plenty of tread left, and was going > within the rated speed of the tire. He did say that he had the bike > loaded up pretty heavy. The other guy it happened to was someone in > the New York area (maybe "Tumu"). > -Bryan > A12 Tucson >

[RM]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, William Valerio wrote:

>I've got 5500 miles on my Kenda 270s and they appear to have enough >tread for another 1000 miles.

My rear K270 got that squared-off feeling around 3k miles but easily had enough tread to go 6k. The front still has legal tread depth after 9k. The front's off-road braking traction got lousy a while ago, but the tire still hooks up the same as it always has when you crank the bike over in turns. RM

[RM]

On 24 Jan 2002, Zachariah Mully wrote:

>fact, I wouldn't be riding. A friend with a KTM640LC4 (ex-bike, switched >to an XR) swore he couldn't get more than a thousand miles out of >Pirelli MT21's before they chunked themselves to death. Whatever.

I've heard other reports of MT21's chunking on heavier bikes. One tire that continues to amaze me is the C755 non-DOT. I put this thing on for LA B2V and then continued using it while blasting up and down the freeway at 80mph for 2200 miles since then. I had expected all sorts of bad things to happen to this "not for highway use" tire. The reality is that the knobs aren't chewy-looking, all of them are present and accounted for, and there are no cracks in the casing. I've done some 2-up over nasty/steep/rocky terrain and the tire just doesn't seem to care. It has exceeded my expectations. RM