Let's Talk Tires - What I've Tried and What I Like (Shinko 705/805, Anakee Wild/Adventure) 

I 2nd the tire plug success. Have done it half dozen times, all on rear tires on heavy cruiser bikes and even once on my Yamaha FJR 1300 with lots of power. Ran that plug for over 5k miles until tire wore out. If you do it correctly, it will work safely in my experience.

I agree. I just got back from 8,500 miles across the US (and Back!), I plugged a tire (rear) and finished out its lifespan with 1,900 miles on the plug - 125 miles of which was off-pavement/gravel, packed sand/gravel roads. This was my first ever plugged tire experience, and I am a believer. I've been told to mind your speed on a plugged tire (after I got back...), i did not mind my speed and did just fine. Not advocating this, just sayin'.

did you try them out?

yes I had them mounted and so far so good. I do mostly pavemant and the wet hadling is noticibly good

Pat's Rides besides road side maintenance having emergency 24/7 sky crane service can be literally life saving when you find yourself stuck in the mud with your full size fully loaded for bear adventure bike and you are in bear country as darkness begins to fall and all you hear are the sounds of creatures that only come out at night to feed themselves start to become louder as darkness fades to black

@@andrewpeak5658 couldnt be better

i just swapped from pirelli angel gt to road 5 i love the road 5

Ron H. Hard compound motorcycle tires will always be a greater risk of your life than soft sticky motorcycle tires that quickly wear out on any motorcycle doing any type of riding on any type of surface under any type of weather ..that being said the limiting facter that is hardly ever mention is size availability. Adventure class motorcycles do not all have the same wheel diameters front or back. Neither does Adventure class motorcycle tire manufacturers offer the various sizes tire brands of tires. Example my Africa twin as a 21in front wheel an 18 inch rear wheel that drastically changed my scope of brand and style of Tire ..the largest choice of Adventure tires are of rims sizes 19 inch for the front and 17-inch for the rear this will be the range of Rim sizes Adventure motorcycles 800cc up to the largest. Adventure bikes of this class are trade-offs and handling and geometry of every type of motorcycle there is in an attempt to have a motorcycle that will do what each motorcycle is purpose-built to be a master in performance and handling...so as you will become aware adventure bikes around a liter of displacement you have a jack of all trades and a master at none and then you are supposed to choose a tire best fitted to accomplish the same. so what you will find you will end up with is a tire that works beautifully up until one day for no apparent reason in the instant of a heartbeat you will notice you have no traction at all. .add the factors of having traction control plus ABS brakes on your adventure dirt bike asphalt do all bike can be very challenging on all types of Road surface and in all types of weather conditions and to make things even more complicated depending on the brand name of your motorcycle switching off and on and adding combinations to controlling your abs and your traction control can be very difficult example turning off ABS and traction control on Triumph Tiger required education of microprocessors and the programming of as I understand todays models take less steps a operation to do. As I have a earlier model of the Africa twin has two buttons one for abs one for traction control so if I'm on it like wet pavement in the rain I leave them both on I and if I'm riding for adventure and excitement I leave traction control turned completely off and I leave on abs as I completely avoid trail riding that would require a GNCC prepared motorcycle with this all being said there is only one brand of tire 1 Style that you can completely trust with a 19 in front rims 17 inch rear rim Metzeler tourance no matter what anyone's opinion will tell you no matter what any manufactured motorcycle will tell you and no matter what metzeler will tell you your chances of fewer broken bones less damage to your motorcycle a longer lifespan Metzeler tourance is your only choice....six years ago i had used a set on a dyna street bob /tracker mod with amazing results with a 120x19 front and a 170x17 rear as they were Metzeler's largest of the Tourance series adventure bike tires....as for all practical purposes if you have not purchased an adventure bike yet take a test ride on a triumph tiger 800 xc that is capable of extreme off road and ride the triumph tiger 800 that has a much lower seat hight much more oriented over all for street useage but still well capable as a BMW adventure and or my africa twin...as we get older muscling bikes well over 400 pounds in the woods can become very intimidating and very quickly become an exhausting Adventure of no joy at all that will make a 500+ pounds 0f africa twin feel as if it is ark welded to the forst floor as you attempt to stand it back up on two wheels again from only misjudging a stop and go ...high sitting seats with high mounted 5 to six gallon fuel tanks topped off full of fuel will feel like trying to motocross a harley in the woods and at age 70 i am quickly finding out off road adventure cruising is no where as easy as it was winning GNCC events on motocross bikes at age 30

A word from experience the Michelin Anakee 3 will not allow you to "ride safe my friend" as you remarked .. As an extreme example metzeler karoo 3 will do every thing better than any Anakee braged except for tread life as Karoo's will be bald on a dyna street bob faster than moto tires ridden "on any sunday"...as i next after melting off the Karoo's i chose to mount the Anakee 3 on said Dyna that did everything exactly opposite as they are advertized making each ride an adverture into the unknown of holly terror of what were you thinking ...so if you ever wish to open a used motorcycle tire shop i can well stock your adventure bike tire inventory from my existing pile of trial and error that is still growing

Installed the Shinko 804/805 on Wednesday and have put about 300 miles on them. So far they seem to be an amazing road tire. Going to try some dirt this weekend.

Thanks Brian. I've been happy with the Michellin but I haven't tried the E07 yet.

What did you end up doing? I know there now the E07+. I'm between the Dunlap Trailmax, E07+ and the Michelin Anakees Adventures. My Trimph dealer is saying the ones they carry..the Anakees

Yep, they do wear as fast as the rear, and unevenly so causing vibrations, Same on my 1190.

Did you get 7k? I get about 4k and they still look outstanding, then between 4k and 4500 they fall apart really quickly

@@adammfharris actually I get closer to 12 or 13K on them. Lot of highway miles.

Had the Bridgestone Battle Axes on my trip to Glacier NP with no punctures/ issues.

I have had good service from the Bridgestone Battle Ax that came with my ‘18 Vstrom 650. They aren’t great in sand or mud, but as for paved and gravel, a good choice.

Thanks! And I didn't replace it but I got it welded, so it is good as new now.

@@FTAAdventures that's great !!

Trailmax mission rear is great on everything... until it rains. It sucks on cold wet pavement, more predictable on wet gravel. Breaking loose unexpectedly in 1st and 2nd on a V-strom650.

Strong possibility we will run into each other!

@@FTAAdventures im in san felipe baja guys in case you need anything or just stop by and say hi. moto traveler my self.

I never noticed any issues with different tires as long as they are the same style of tire, mixing brands never affected handling for me.

I ran the Battleaxe AX41 on my R1200GS, I did a video on it. It is a really great performing tire but life expectancy is really short. If you plan lots of offroad riding you can't beat it.

I use mitas e07 Dakar on my klr, love it

Walter nice to hear you are still alive after your 8 bouts of the unpredictable surprises i disvovered with my first set and last ever again with anakee as the last surprise fight to the finish was trying to pry them off my very expensive laced seamless alloy Apollo 40 spoke anodized rims as a finial struggle with a professional motorcycle tire machine failed to remove the anakees we were force to use a skill sawsall with a steel cutting chopsall blade to cut through the anakee steel cable inside the rubber bead of tire to allow extra give to save further damage of said Apollo $1200 buck rim as any and all tire removal tools became futile trying to dismount the Anakee for the first time not more than six months old with less than 3000 mile still showing no wear ..that i was lucky i was not on an adventure ride at that moment that would have been a much worse struggle if there had been a puncher with no choice but replacement ...as i have never had a problem breaking loose the tire bead of a Shinko , Chin Sing , or a Kenda who are all in price wars within their cheapo prices asian rubber trees offer.. And if you can spoon a bike tire from flat to a new tube mounted roosting the rear tire back on the trail in 5 minutes as was demonstrated by world championship winner 6 day trials Rider by the name of Malcolm Smith owning any of the three cheapo Taiwan tires performance record is priceless , able to jump tall sky scrapers in a single bounce , more powerfull than a super tenere and faster than a speeding ooops there goes another rubber tree plant.... oh and by the way of the evolution of Technology concerning motorcycle tubes they can be bought cut in half with the two ends sealed airtight so wheel and tire removal will no longer be need to change out the tube by merely spooning off one side of the tire bead as the slit tube allows you passage of the axle then simply spoon on the one tire bead and pump air into the open circle sealed on both ends trick tire tube traped inside the tire and bodda bing you are roosting again back in the race

Thanks! I picked up a Nikon D5600 recently 🙂

@@FTAAdventures that's a good one. Thanks!

FTA Adventures ...I have the same camera, it’s great. Did you shoot this video on the 5600? I haven’t done video on it yet, I use mine for still photography, but if it’s good for video let me know.