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Odd wear on my front tyre.

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Dragonstaff:
This is being replaced on Tuesday, so I'm not particularly worried, but I wonder if anyone has an explanation for the wear on this tyre? It isn't darkside related, because the shape was there before the tyre change on the back, but I strikes me as odd. The knife-edge on the sides is also interesting. On a car I would say alignment,but I don't think that that is a consideration on the front of a bike.

Bridgestone Battleaxe. The new one is a Pirrelli Angel GT

Brookester:
I've experienced this on other bikes, Super Tenere, FJR, etc. Commonly called scalping and there is no end of suggested causes. Michelin motorcycle tyre guy I met up Mt Mee once said its more common cause is pressures and that not all tyres are made the same for the same bike and rider weights and riding styles. If you go the Angel GT be sure to get an 'A' carcass as its meant to suit the heavier sports tourers.

DavidP:
yep, I have noticed that an extra 2-4 psi helps reduce it.  44-45 in the front, and 44-46 in the rear 46 2up). 

ruSTynutz:
I ended up with similar wear on the Bridgestone Battlax that was fitted to my ST when I bought it...even down to the strange groove/scratch roughly down the centre.
Even the current front tyre (a Dunlop RoadSmart 3) has started to wear in similar fashion although there's no strange centre groove/scratch as yet...

I've recently upped the tyre pressure from what I had been running so it will be interesting to see if the abnormal wear continues.  :think1

StinkyPete:
I got caught on a long tour with tyres that had worn out in the centre (still lots of trread away from the middle) and I still had a few thousand km to go before I could get them changed.    I dropped the pressures by about 4psi, and the centre wear almost astopped and the sides scalloped really badly, but they got me where I needed to go.   The chap that changed the tyres commented that wear indicated  that I'd been running pressures that were low, so I told him the story.

The lesson for me was that low tyre pressures contribute to severe scalloping on the sides, so I'd suggest bumping up your pressures.  From memory a lot of the ST folk are running with 42 and 44 psi.

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