Are you sure its not a sport tire, sport touring tire normally offers alittle better life(thats their purpose) over pure sport, atleast I'd want to know specifically what tire it is.

The pure sport tires, normally wear faster in comparison cause of the softer compounds involved.

In addition, the speed of the rider, the road composite, how much of the ride is acel and decel. Or in other words hard accel and hard decel is going to be harder on tire wear. Tight narrow agressive roads are harder on tires than more spread out roads.

Example on street track tire, the Mich Ppower  a pure sport tire, I've never bothered with the (rears), cause they are a sub 4000 mile tire for me, yet I know some have gotten 8 or 9,000 mile out of them or as little as 1500 mile. The fronts though offer me enough life and performance under all conditions I deal with on the street for me to not bother with anything else, and its life is comparable to a sport tour front, cant ask for much more in safety /performance and life.

A sport tour (rear) will normally offer 30% to 50% more life over a staight sporttire. Where you have to weigh in is the saftey factor. 100 horse plus bikes are very dangerous without good traction, especially when riding agressively.

0nly 2000 mile on a sporttour tire is an oddity ,  not something most are going to see on the street.  But 3500 to 9 or 10,000 mile like in your case  , depending on all the factors is a normal range that can be seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't know what I "average" on the Harley yet.  The rear tire needed replacement at 18,000.  I replaced it with a new Dunlop, same as the original.  The front tire has just over 30K on it and my wrench still scratches his head whenever I go in--he swears I'm buying tires somewhere else.  He can't believe the new rear still looks good and he's amazed by the life of the front. 

I'm pretty fanatical about tire pressure, but I ride pretty hard and on some roads that aren't that well maintained.

 

I only get about 11,000 to 12,000 miles on a set of tires like you. Wish I could get closer to 20,000. Can't understand while tire manufactures can't make a tire last longer on a bike, seems like a waste when tires wear so quick.

Carrie

  My tires have slightly more than 10,000 miles on them. The rear tire is close to needing to be replaced. The front has a bit more tread.

I get about 1000 (s)miles out a rear on my ATK mostly riding on dirt and gravel. On my 1200 bandit I'd get about 5000(s)miles out of a rear and 10,000 out of a front. On the V-Strom the stock Bridgestone lasted 5000 miles. I replaced them as a set with Pirellis and the rear lasted 6000 miles, the front is still on and the new rear Pirelli has 2000 on it so the front now has 8000 on it. All told 2 1/2 sets of tires in one year and 13,000 miles.