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Sun Nov 21, 2021 3:21 pm
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Here is an interesting post that I copied from a the BMW F800Riders forum:
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Just putting this one out there. I respect Ari's POV and knowledge.
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Grumpy Goat RSWasserboxer.com 2016 BMW R1200RS 2014 BMW S1000R |
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Since “old” tires are typically rejected by consumers, my guess is that those that don’t sell within X months are warehoused and newer stock goes out. If new stock runs out, old stock is sent out. I believe tires have pretty long shelf lives as they’re coated during the manufacturing process…which offers a measure of protection. I’m not sure how old is “too old” for a new motorcycle tire.
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Zitat von Grumpy Goat im Beitrag #2 Grumpy, Thanks for posting. An even more interesting question to ask a MC tire company is "How does lowering tire pressure increase tire traction?" We've all heard this and the off-the cuff answer is "the contact patch is larger." But, that means the coefficient of friction for tire rubber must increase as the compressive stress at the contact patch drops................. Old Forum Orphan |
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My experience has been that more air pressure decreases wear and increases tire mileage. While less air pressure provides a softer ride. I have no personal experience regarding traction levels when air pressure is adjusted up and down.
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #6 I agree with all those points.......
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My 2022 set arrived last month.
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Zitat von Paul911 im Beitrag #9 Agreed. If I did worry about it, tires from a local shop where the dates could be inspected would be worth considering. |
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #1 I'm having a hard time putting this post in context. I think the last part "not sure why Continental didn't rotate stock...." is the most meaningful. It makes no business sense, to sell tires "last in ..first out" thus keeping old stock, let alone let it build up. I must conclude the only reasons these dealers have these tire is they did not sell well and once put in stock never were sold. Having said that I'm of the mind and am not sure buying tires a couple of years old is a bad thing |
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Zitat von Vtbob im Beitrag #11Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #1 I worked for a multi-national, in my case Xerox. We would have inventory in stores all around the world to be pulled by local service engineers. In the 1990s when they nearly went bankrupt, some bean counter worked out the value of this inventory and most of it was pulled back to central stores to be reallocated to where it was needed. Some of it had been in regional stored for many years and was no longer current spec. My job was to assess the returned stock and upgrade it where needed. For the electronics I specialised in, often this was just to load some new firmware but sometimes involved changing components, especially electrolytic capacitors if the module was quite old. I am guessing Continental has done something similar and pulled back inventory from places in the world where they shipped stock at launch, anticipating demand, but got their sales projections wrong due to Metzeler and Michelin dominating the sector.
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Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #12Zitat von Vtbob im Beitrag #11Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #1 This reminds me of buying my 2009 BMW F650GS twin. I special-ordered the bike (without ABS, BTW) in December 2007. It was manufactured in June 2008 and then shipped to the U.S. in July, reaching the NA warehouse in the U.S. at the end of that month. But then NA moved to a new warehouse and my bike apparently got put into the back of that new building and then was followed by a bunch of "launch" models that landed in New Jersey after my bike did. In September, BMW started shipping out the new 650 and 800 models to dealers across the country. Those new "launch" models reached dealers in early September 2008, but my bike was nowhere to be found at my dealer with that shipment, which surprised me since I knew that my particular bike had arrived in the U.S before those models did. My bike finally arrived at the end of September in a second shipment batch. So I assume that it was just a case of first in, last out when it came to pulling motorcycles out of the new warehouse. Perhaps that is what happened with Continental's tires?
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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