Bridgestone adventurecross ax41 anyone yet??

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I looked at the mileage yesterday getting it ready for a 3 day trip. I've got around 1200 miles on them. The rear is showing some wear. Front looks new. To be honest I'm hard on rear tires. To hard on the gas and almost always down shift when stopping. Just on what if seen so far I'm gonna guess 4000 on the rear for me. Again I never get good milage out of the rear.
 
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I looked at the mileage yesterday getting it ready for a 3 day trip. I've got around 1200 miles on them. The rear is showing some wear. Front looks new. To be honest I'm hard on rear tires. To hard on the gas and almost always down shift when stopping. Just on what if seen so far I'm gonna guess 4000 on the rear for me. Again I never get good milage out of the rear.
I applaud you for going with a low milage tire as a tradeoff for safety. I'll be starting a thread on my new set of rubber in the next day or two. IMHO knobby's are the only way to go on these big adventure bikes!! It's that 1% of dirt that will end up biting you with a smooth tire.
 

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3K mile update... front looks much better than the rear and will probably last for 2 rears but the noise is almost unbearable, even with earplugs. Between 45-55 mph, it’s like howl of the Baskervilles.
Very competent on-road handling and no issues on gravel, dirt or sand. I haven’t seen wet pavement or real mud so no comment.
Final verdict... I’ll most likely go back to the Shinko 804/5s.
 
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That combination would probably work just fine. The 804 is less expensive, quieter and easier to mount.
That’s what I was planning on as my next tire choice. The Kenda Big block knobby on front cupped badly, and good louder as it wore. Excellent traction in the dirt though.
 

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Spent the day on them Saturday, two up about 200 miles. I'm steadily not like them so much. Honey moon is over I guess. On road with Kim the handling really gets interesting. Noise gets even louder. Holding a line in the turns was a challenge. I'm thinking I'll probably not do a second set.
 

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Not liking the feedback here , As I will be leaving for Alaska in a few weeks. Still plenty of time to change them out...IMG_0520.JPG
 

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Here's a good shot of the rear at 3.5K miles, not babied but not abused. I rode it just as would have the Shinko. It might make another thousand before the center tread is gone and wear bars begin to show.

Finally got to ride them in the wet yesterday and was not impressed... TC light constantly going off with moderate throttle in Sport or Tour. There is siping on the edges, still, not effective. The front felt fine with no tucking in the turns or early ABS intervention. Of course, I wasn't pushing it to try and wash the front end... just riding the speed limits and watching out for manhole covers. Oh, stay off the painted lines when wet... these tires don't like them at all.
 

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Spent the day on them Saturday, two up about 200 miles. I'm steadily not like them so much. Honey moon is over I guess. On road with Kim the handling really gets interesting. Noise gets even louder. Holding a line in the turns was a challenge. I'm thinking I'll probably not do a second set.
What pressures are you running front and rear?
 

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With me and Kim, I'll run around 35 36 in the rear. Try to off set the extra weight. Front stays about 30 to 32.
IMHO, that's way too low for street use. I run 36F/42R with loaded panniers, extra fuel and water. If you're going slow off pavement, those pressures would be fine. But at road speeds you're generating a lot more heat and that's going to wear the tire much faster and provide unstable handling as well.

I've been running those pressures on the Super Ten for ~8 years and 140k miles now and I get consistently good mileage on my tires. Some of that is my riding style too.
 

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This is my second s10, 100 110 thousand between the two. I have ran higher pressures trying to find what works best for my style and how its loaded. I'm around 200 lbs, kim is small, we are the biggest load. When I've ran higher it seem to just eat the center off the rear. Handling does get better but I don't want to change pressure every time I go from on to off road. So it's a compromise between the two. This is one of those religion and politics topics I think.
 

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If you're not corner carving all the time, we all tend to wear the center first. That's just normal tire wear. Some tires, K60s, E07s, etc, tend to wear the center down first, then stabilize and wear at a much slower rate after that initial wear.

I'm simply responding to your complaints, based on my experience. Just something to consider together with your own experience.

FWIW, I'm 260 w/o gear and run a 8.2 gallon tank, a pannier full of tools and a gallon of water, along with the other pannier which is usually full of clothes. I'm probably about the same load as you and Kim.

I'll drop 10psi front and rear if the off pavement is knarly, but most of the two track I might run is fine at my normal pressures. In Alaska going over the TOW Hwy after a couple of days of rain, the lower pressure helped it not track so much and it was easier to go where I wanted to point the bike. Colorado and other Western mountain stuff didn't require a drop in pressure. I haven't ridden too much of the sandy stuff in the East yet. Arkansas rocky mud was fine at full pressure.
 
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I have been running 32F/36R for many years on all my street bikes. Loaded or empty. The Super Tenere is no exception. I'm still putting some miles on my Wild's and running 32/36 as well. In fact Michelin recommends not airing down for off road.
 

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I have been running 32F/36R for many years on all my street bikes. Loaded or empty. The Super Tenere is no exception. I'm still putting some miles on my Wild's and running 32/36 as well. In fact Michelin recommends not airing down for off road.
And you have accepted the trade off in tire wear for your desired riding. No harm, no foul.
 
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