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Confish..
There will be a stamp melted into the sidewall of your tires. The first two numbers are the week and the second two are the year of it's manufacture. If it's over 4 years old.... You're taking a pretty big risk on a bike you would be VERY hard pressed to replace. There are some I have seen on here saying "I've had a tire over 10 years.. doing well over 100mph several times!" There are people that have played Russian Roulette several times too... neither one of them are a good bet in my book.
I personally had a new looking tire on my bike blow out last year. Luckily it was on the back and I didn't wreck... but cringe thinking of a front blow out. After reading on here and looking at the stamp of that old tire, I found it was made in 1989!
It sounds like you may ride a bit like me.. too fast too often.. but I do think that if I had been in ANY sort of curve, I would have lost the bike. And at 70mph +.... maybe me too! You know what opinions are like... but this is just mine.
Tod
There will be a stamp melted into the sidewall of your tires. The first two numbers are the week and the second two are the year of it's manufacture. If it's over 4 years old.... You're taking a pretty big risk on a bike you would be VERY hard pressed to replace. There are some I have seen on here saying "I've had a tire over 10 years.. doing well over 100mph several times!" There are people that have played Russian Roulette several times too... neither one of them are a good bet in my book.
I personally had a new looking tire on my bike blow out last year. Luckily it was on the back and I didn't wreck... but cringe thinking of a front blow out. After reading on here and looking at the stamp of that old tire, I found it was made in 1989!
It sounds like you may ride a bit like me.. too fast too often.. but I do think that if I had been in ANY sort of curve, I would have lost the bike. And at 70mph +.... maybe me too! You know what opinions are like... but this is just mine.
Tod
And yes i will be changing out the tires (front one first ) since i`m taking the front end apart for fork seals so i`ll do that one , then i`ll do the rear after the winter.
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