WARNING Shinko E705 tire

Ramseybella

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Been using Shinkos for over 12 years on my 1998 900 Triumph Tiger, 2003 1050 Triumph Tiger my 2002 Kawasaki ZRX 1200.
I had only one 705 grow a hernia under the tread on my Tenere about two tires ago.
I ain't no light rider over 300lbs and when i tour I'm loaded with another 80lbs worth of load.
It happens..
 

Niterunnr

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My riding Bud has 705 on his S10; we tear up canyons and he commutes 100 miles with no complaints.
Many front tires are bias, which is under $50 for the Shinko.
The primary reason I’m not going to run a 705 front is I’ve read the lateral grip is what you’d expect from that class of tire.
Only time I dropped her off road was when the front didn’t climb and instead washed out. I expected too much from the tire I was riding. Sadly I imagine most of this is falling for marketing hype.
Is there a time limit to edit?
I meant to write that lateral grip in dirt is consistent with a 70/30 tire and I went more aggressive.
 

Revz

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@Bayes totally agree that you tried it given the bad experience, will never use them again (or maybe that company)

For the rest of the folks, if you could let us know what the date code is, it'd be good to eliminate 'previous owner installed really old tire' as a possibility
(this is what it should look like)


That's a ton of cracking for that type of tire, and I wouldn't ride them either.
I see the date code on your photo. Could you please explain how to read it?
 

Pdrhound

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I've been through alot of tires on the tenere and just put a 704 on the bike again for the winter. (3rd set). I have done a bunch of miles on this tire with zero issues. Way better on wet roads and dirt roads then the Anakee3. The front 704 works as well as the GPS in the gravel.

They will get 4,000 miles this winter then another tractionator adv rear in the spring. The tractionator front shit the bed at 3,500 miles while the rear will do about 5,500 miles. The front was supurb off road, but the search for the front continues.
 

HiJincs63

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I put a set of 705's (made sure both were radial) on my (new to me) 2014 S10 before leaving California for my trip home to Georgia. I put 3,200 miles on them so far and I'm very happy with them. I've run them on other bikes and will run them again.
 

Travex

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3 sets went on my previous S10 and although I thought the front was a tad dodgy for it's 1k miles, they performed considerably better on trails than my go-to over the road Battlewings. I keep a close eye on tires and never saw anything untoward in their wear other than slight cupping in the front near the end of its life.
My E07 failure was no fault of the tire. It was from loss of pressure at speed due to failure of a sticky string plug. I'd spun the tire on gravel when pulling out of a gas stop just before so am fairly sure the gravel was what got the plug. I'll re-post the picture here because it's a lesson in how important tire pressure is to keeping things from becoming ugly in an instant. Low pressure means heat build-up in the sidewall from flex till the rubber in the sidewall fails. I must've had somebody watching over me to have the tire fail like this while in the middle of an absolutely empty highway with wide shoulders because I used most of it to get stopped and then didn't get hit in the black night.


In the center is some of the rubber "sand" mentioned by Fennellg which is a symptom of low pressure when the sidewall rubber rubs itself.
Very late chiming in, but nice handy work getting that corralled safely! Well done.
 
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