front dunlop 15000 went to e3 rides great, rear last one 8000. still have dunlop have 5000 still a lot left going with e3 next like the ride

A mechanic friend of mine told me that I had about 1000 miles left on the rear and 6-8000 miles left on the front. That would mean replacing tires at 11000 on the rear and 17000 on the front. I'm a mellow in-town rider and a 75-85 MPH on the highways. I ride a V-Star 1300 and I weigh 280 lbs. My car tires last four time longer and cost 1/4 as much...

 MIKE                   "I'm... a... high... way... STAR..."   

I know I am jumping in late on this, but 5000 miles before the front tire needs replacing sounds really wrong. I get 12000+ on a wide front tire and 8-9000 on a skinny. I don't know what could cause the excessive wear on a front tire, but something is wrong. How many miles you got on the new one now, and how does it look?

Well,I am also ready for another front tire after about 8,000 miles.The type of tire,riding style and road conditions will be factors on how much life you get out of a tire.

do harley's have tyres .??

4K on my bike since I bought her end of May. Don't know how many before that, but not many, I think. Still better than 50% on the rear.

I just traded up to a SG 2007. Had 7200miles, I figured it would be 'cheap insurance' (protection) to get a new set of
Dunlops D402F.

I get at best 5k out of my rear and 2 seasons out my front, about 12 - 15k on the front. I ride long hard fast slow wet and dry, just like everyone else and I agree 5k out of rear tire is just BS. I would not every consider a car tire on my bike simply becuase I do not feel like wrecking over a tire.

My brother just put a metzler ME 880, he says its a dual compound tire. Waiting to here the results of that. What I know for sure is when I put yet another set of tires on my Harley, they will not be Dunlops, it is time to try something else. I need more than 5k out of tire.

http://www.us.metzelermoto.com/web/catalog/moto/moto_catalogo_schedaDescription.page?categoria=/catalog/moto/custom/none&vehicleType=MOTO&product_id=882603&uri=/metzeler/en_US/browser/xml/catalog/moto/Custom_ME_880_Marathon.xml&menu_item=/products/catalog/custom

The new Dunlops are little different. I've just replace the rear tire at with 20,000 on it (Maybe a little longer then I should have gone but not much). The front is still has plenty of tread. Will replace it next season. But the new D407and D408 series are pretty good dual componund tires. They handle nice and the wear seems to have improved. The only draw back at this time is I can only get them from the HD dealer. Even Dunlop lists them as OEM. No one else right now makes the sizes for the HD touring line from 2009 up. So even if I wanted I'm stuck with them for the time being. Not a real hardship for me.

I am running dunlops on my electraglide and seems like the best I can get is right 5000 to 6000 miles at best I do slow take offs as well.the dealer ship says he feels like it could be alot of the highways and secondary roads around our area that has alot to do with the extreme wear...we do have indian highways..a patchie here and apatchie there..thank you NC

If a non-Harley can give his two cents ....
We ride a LOT of "two up". My 09 Kawa Nomad weighs 880 lbs and came with Bridgestones. Although I've had to replace the rear tire, the front tire already has 19,800 miles on it and its still on the bike. I just replaced the rear with a Bridgestone because I got 12,000 out of the previous one.
My previous bike was a 660 lb Suzuki Boulevard that also got good mileage out of both Bridgestones and Metzlers. I tried a set of Dunlops on it once but they only lasted 9000 miles. Didn't care for that too much.
One consideration .. we live in Florida where you rarely wear out anything but the centerline of the tire. I hate giving up on a set of tires when the side treads are still very healthy.

Pretty much the same here. First set stock tires (Dunlops), I got 17 k on the rear and still working on the front @22k. Replaced the rear with something that I don't recall and only got 6k, so I'm back to Dunlops.

Just saw my rear tire needs replacing...10,726 miles