New front tire

[Notgrownup]

I just came back from a 4 day mountain and rainy trip, it worked fine as frog hair

 

[LadyDraco]

I have been using rear tires on the front for over 10+yrs. And love it..

The thing that gets me is , the tires that I love are now no longer available BW502 .. GRRRRR

And yes I run them backwards.. And I do have to run tad smaller size. 150/70R-17 in stead of the 150/80R-17(OEM size )

But that's ok as long as ya remember that the speedo is a tad off now.. Not really a huge deal.

I also run 40 -42 psi in my tires in the front and 10 psi less in the rears..

I use to run the lowers psi.. But in all honestly the bike handles so much better in the higher psi for me..:Shrug:

My Valks are my work horses..

 

[RKplus10]

Tracy, looks like they’re available on Ebay. I may be overlooking something, but check them out.

 

[LadyDraco]

Yes they are but the DOT stamps are 5+ yrs old..

And lets face it I'm not going to pay that kind of crazy price for a hardened rubber tire..

At the age of the tires out there , even old new .. It's not worth it..

Now if they were 98 bucks I might consider using one..

I just had some one offer me a BW at a not too bad a price .

That I think I'll pass on as the date stamp was 7 yrs ago !

I had a set of GY triple tread ordered when Sears was still around .

And the tires were 8 yrs old and 10 yrs .. I felt that rubber and told Sears NO thank you..

And the tires were so miss matched.

When they felt the tires they agreed and said they were very sorry .

And he was ashamed to even roll them out of the back..

And he said they need to check them DOT's on the tires better.

And a person shouldn't pay top dollar for old new tires..

Sorry for the long post