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Don't know how I missed this site all these years, but he's got a bunch of great articles on maintenance and lots of gorgeous restorations he's done. Great V4 resource especially for the older bikes. http://v4dreams.com/index.html

I like saunas! Like 4 years ago when I visited Keny on my Ace of Spades Baltic Tour!! My leather pants have (some) perforations and wearing a sports longjohn helps wick sweat away, short vented gloves. My leather jacket has a removable front panel with mesh underneath and vents on the arms. Wear a long sleeved sports shirt with a MACNA cooling vest on top. AIM to ride outside towns, avoid traffic lights, keep moving. And drink PLENTY water along the way; or Earl Grey tea!

My last rear tire was Michelin Road 5. Got 16,200k's 10,066miles out of It, all country riding, I may not be fast but I'm definetly not a slow coach! Looking at my records I'm generally getting 16 to 17,000ks out of a rear be it PR2's PR4's or the Road 5's I'm certainly a Michelin Man, as they say, when you're on a good thing stick to it! There are just sooooooo many variables when it comes to tire life/distance. And as always YMMV.

Beginning of June I changed my tires. I had a set of Pilot Road 5s on my 800 that I'd mounted in September. After 6500 miles the rear was past the wear bars and handling like crap. The front had reached the wear bars. Since this was a Autumn/Winter/Spring set I'm not surprised I burned out the center, also because my suspension was worn out (got it refreshed in May). I put on a set of S21 takeoffs to hold me over until I decide what to try next. The plan is to do a lot of mileage so I need something that'll handle the miles without getting out of shape really fast.

Thank you! I hope to be Ah-May-Zed, once I get them out of the basement and onto the VFR.....; ) I've never gotten even close to 10K from any tire. I'll feel fortunate if I get 4K from them. They really lean against a wall well in a basement........great grip.......