Tires

Hello my fellow bikers. New member here. I ride an 07 Street Glide and it's that time again. I need new rear tires. I have smoothed out the rear Dunlop E3. I have done a little research on three different brands and am looking for opinions. I've done a lot of reading on Michelin CommanderII, Also Metzeler, and Michelin Scorcher. I wasn't happy with the Dunlop E3. However I did get a lot of milage out of them they just seem really hard and felt like they gave me a rough ride.

Go with the Michlien Commander

Others will disagree but some of us including me will not mix tires...

It don't matter

. . . but it still feels like winter around here :gah:. I've never liked the idea of mixing tires either. I use Avons, which I don't think anybody else here uses. I like them because of the retro tread, and also because they have a lower pressure rating than the newer ones, thus, they ride a bit softer if you have a rigid frame. I've been told they don't corner as well as 'modern' tread designs. Anyway, whatever you like, go with. They're all pretty good . . . and welcome to the forum.

I don't like mixing either but sometimes funds don't allow. So is anybody running these brands of tires that can give me likes and dislikes. How's mileage, how about wet weather, tracking, etc.

Yes it does...There have been several articles about mixing tires and the especially the dangers of mixing tires made of soft/hard compounds...

So I guess I should suck it up and buy another dunlop E3.

I have always run Dunlops on my 04 GeezerGlide and never had a problem...I watch my tire pressures like a hawk and change the rear every 11,000 miles and front every 16,000miles or so...And that is riding two up most of the time...

Street Glides are known to have stiff rear ends. Has to do with the lowered shocks not tires.

Over the years I've mixed matched tires
Metzlers are good tires
The reason I said Michlien is they last longer

I put one E3 on the last EG I had
After about 2500 miles I took it off
Don't like E 3 tires period

Years back they had a bad batch of em
They have been long gone
That's why when a tire is about 60% gone I replace it
Ain't trying to run it forever
Nothin rides like new rubber

Metzler rides good
Michlien rides good
The new style Dunlop rides good

I've used most brands of tires at one time or another. When I was younger and poorer, miles per change meant a ton. Now that I am older and not broke, I like stickier tires. They wear out quicker 'cuz the stick more, but that means they hold onto that hard stuff under 'em better. Just remember, you are trading road-holding for mileage when you go to harder rubber. You can't have both, so ride safer when on harder rubber.

When you weight a lot like chucked and you ride on the edge of the desert and it 101* at 9:00 am in the mornin and you are pulling a trailer behind yer bike
Think how hit the blacktop is
Redneck Chuchtx didn't git the milage he would of liked out of the metzlers tires
The road really burn't em up
Before we got to Lukenback we pulled into a quickmart
I couldn't find Chucktx
He was in the ice cooler where you git bag ice out to put in yer ice chest trying to cook off