Tread wear bars

[mmcb250]

I know, another crazy question. In looking at a pic of new stock Dunlop tires for the Blast I saw that the rear tire had a nice deep groove down the center of the tire, mine does not. I checked the arrow on the side of the tire and lined up with the center tread and the wear bar is showing basically the circumference of the tire. The front is fine and as far as the tread on either side of the center groove on the rear tire they are ok too. Planned on riding the Blast on a roughly 320 mile round trip to Mich. this coming weekend. In your opinions should I not ride it at all other than to get a new tire or take the trip?

 

[mmcb250]

By the way it's a 2000 Blast. Maybe the Dunlops that year didn't have a deep center tread? When I got the bike with 350 miles on it there wasn't much of a center tread groove to begin with. Just a thought.

 

[freak2180]

Hard to say as I don't nor have I ever used a Dunlop tire. Imy last bridgestone was down to the wear bars and it still had 1/8 rubber left when I decided to do a burnout and blow it . If you do ride on it just be aware that it's almost done so don't get crazy.

 

[PwrHse]

Buddy if you are still running tires from 2000 , replace them as soon as possible .

 

[jaimz]

You shouldn't have a tire longer than 5 years regardless of the remaining tread. The rubber naturally becomes dry and will basically rot, even if you can't see any signs of dry rot.

It all seams good until a massive chunk of rubber comes off at 80mph. Your tires are no less than 13 years old at this point. Everytime you ride you're at major risk.

 

[supermel74]

Whatever you do, don't replace them with another set of the same Dunlops. Those are probably the worst tires for the Blast. Most people recommend either the Pirelli MT75 or the Pirelli Diablo scooter tires which surprisingly fit the Blast and supposedly perform great.

 

[jakub7]

order pirelli diablos "scooter" tires
110/70-16 (front)
140/70-16 (rear)
the rear one is SLIGHTLY bigger than stock but is ALOT better and requires no modding at all