Re: Hornet 160r tyre life

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Re: Hornet 160r tyre life

Expect life of around 20k kms easily.

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Tire life is affected not only by the road conditions but also the riding habits of the person.
So if you accelerate hard and brake hard all the time, the tire life will be significantly less.
On the other hand if a person accelerates gently to 60, sees a red light 200 meters ahead and releases the throttle and coasts till the traffic signal, the speed reduces itself from 60 to 30 and then brakes from 30 to 0. His tire life and brake pad life will be much higher than others.

I am the second type of rider and ride a R15 V2 whose tire life is 25 K on an average. I have already done 25 K and looking at their condition they will easily last 5K ore even 10k more. same story with the brake pads, mine last more than twice of that of other riders. the additional benefit is 50 Kmpl mileage from a track focused racing bike, when the other riders get 38 - 40.

To conclude it would be very difficult for us to give you an exact number on how long your tires will last. Keep checking them regularly for cracks, punctures, maintain tire pressure and change them whenever you feel less grip than they usually provide. The closest you can get is ask the query in the ownership thread, they would give you a good estimate and rest is on your riding habits.
Ride safe.

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I have crossed 46k km. Now planning to change the tyre.
What I have heard from my friends and others are the tyre life to be 35k-45k km for Honda. But again as mentioned by other folks here, it depends on the terrain and driving habits.

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I rode some 14.5k km in my hornet, some 5,6 nails were got stucked ,then removed, then filled them with some puncture filling.. moreover these kind of tyres are not providing much off road grip..

Are those patches worsen the tyre life...?

So which flat chubby Tyre model we can prefer for best on/offroad grip...

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Even I had my first puncture @ ~ 6k km and within 25k km I had another 3 puncture (All in rear tyre). Now after crossing 46k km, there is repeated issue in the rear tyre. May be the tyre is weakened. Got 4 punctures after 46k km out of which the air leak is through 3 old puncture area. So now made up my mind to change the tyre.

Hope the patches will definitely have some effect on the tyre life. but in the very little proportion.

Recently myself along with other two friends went for a long ride from Hosur to Lonavala then back to Hosur via Lavasa, Mahabaleshwar, Goa, Shimoga (total round trip ~ 2700km). Few areas were offroads. I couldn't compare the offroad experience, because the other two bikes were also no different than mine in terms of offroad.(Avenger 220 & thunderbird 350)

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Fine, thanks for sharing experience...

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I changed my tyre on 9ooo km only.
Mfr tyre is not good for better road grip currently I using Michelin pilot street

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Mine is 24000km odo, still I stick with stock tyres..
Am sure, it's stability is something fantastic..but the grip on wet roads/off roads are bit scary.

Does tyres with more grip pattern affect the speed of bike?

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Stock tyres is not good for the bike, bike manufacturing company( honda) use MRF tyres just because they are cheap
Whenever i applied hard rear brake stock tyre skid but after change the problem just gone

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I think, less grip patterns in stock tyre are culprit. Which doesn't stick stronger with road. So the skid is happening

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I drive mostly in city conditions with 10% bad road. Tyre life also depends on storage of bike and life span. Even though bike is not in running condition, tyre will start cracking over the time.
Till last year My tyres were in very good condition (22K) but now I have to park my bike outside and threads are all gone in these next 6K .
Front tyre worn out, rear is developing cracks.

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I’m observing one side wear on my bike tyres. Clocked around 29k kms. Not much satisfied with the stock Nylon Tyres...Anyone here, upgraded to Timsun tyres? Would like to hear more on that. Pl let know if someone upgraded to Timsun.