What kind of longevity are you getting with your Bridgestone RE050As?

spearfish25

Looks like I'm on track for about 9-10k on them as well. Not the most robust tire but what can I expect for a 140 treadwear rating. I've been looking into alternative on Tirerack and Hankook Ventus seems to have a better rating (280) at a better price (~$200 each). Given I do a couple track days a year, I probably won't notice much of a handling loss, but I'd love to get more mileage from a tire!

Bullitt, will you save the tires for track days? If the track is dry, the nearly bald tires would be sweet to run on those nice days.

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racerxj17

ehh....even on a slick, well prepped dry track, near bald tires will not have anywhere close to the grip of the tires new. its not the tread that affects the grip, its the amount of heat cycles. as you cycle the heat through them, they get harder and harder and grip less....

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kannibul

I'm assuming you're referring to new tires that have some break-in time, since new tires are SLICK when brand new.

As a biker, new tires are like riding on slightly oily tires for the first 50-100 miles - gotta take it easy on the turns and stuff...

spearfish25

I've read this very fact you state above. However, as a rebuttal:

My buddy has a Mazda Speed 6 with AWD and we did our final track day of the season yesterday. The morning was bitterly cold with rain and the track was more of an ice-skating rink (slippery, not icy). I was struggling to accelerate out of corners and kept losing the back end if I was too energetic. My buddy in the AWD Speed 6 had brand spanking new tires and was driving away from everyone on the track. Coming out of a turn, he could put all the power down without much slip at all. Vettes were hitting guard-rails and he was laughing as he lapped Mustang GTs. Now granted there is a big AWD factor here, but if the tires were truly oily and slick when new, I'd think he'd have had bigger issues up front.

I guess if I had new tires too, I'd have seen how much of a problem new tires really were .

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