At 8100 miles, I finally wore out the original Metzeler Tourance tires on my G310GS. They did well on and off road. They're the most road oriented tire I ever had. I've always ridden dual sport bikes with barely street legal knobbies. I'm probably going to install some Shinko 804/805 tires or Kenda Big Block tires... something more of a 50% on/off road tire. No doubt I'll miss the Tourance when riding on the road, but I'll appreciate more traction off road.
We agree with you on the Dunlops! However, finding a tire that we can enjoy for 4-5000 miles will be great. We liked the traction of the Rocks. Review out soon. 😀👍
Lighter is better off road. ADV riders have been begging for a lightweight off road oriented ADV bike that makes enough power to cruise on interstates without being near red line. The mainline motorcycle manufacturers reluctantly offered smaller ADV bikes but they seemed careful to feature reduce them to avoid competing with their bloated mid and full size ADV bikes. I bought a G310GS as the best bike for my old man travels, and honestly, it's plenty capable of doing the old man off road riding I want to do. I don't ride on highways much but when I do, I wish it had 50 HP instead of 34 HP. Mostly, I wish it had a 5 gallon fuel tank instead of 2.9 gallons.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments! We have found that we do appreciate the smaller lighter bikes. They did well in the dirt without lack of power. The tires helped and still had enough power. We had larger bikes and would not have taken them to this class. We can tell you… no one paid any attention to us as they were too worried about their own heavy GS bikes. 😂
Glad you enjoyed the training and the dirt bike experience. Looks like a pretty amazing rally!! That is a LOT of bikers. Wish we could have seen more of the views, just curious, what was the reason you couldn't show us more of that? - Michelle
Love your comment! The views here seem to be off in the distance… yet everywhere around us. Simply beautiful really. Can you believe the number of bikers and tents?! So fun!
At 8100 miles, I finally wore out the original Metzeler Tourance tires on my G310GS. They did well on and off road. They're the most road oriented tire I ever had. I've always ridden dual sport bikes with barely street legal knobbies. I'm probably going to install some Shinko 804/805 tires or Kenda Big Block tires... something more of a 50% on/off road tire. No doubt I'll miss the Tourance when riding on the road, but I'll appreciate more traction off road.
We agree with you on the Dunlops! However, finding a tire that we can enjoy for 4-5000 miles will be great. We liked the traction of the Rocks. Review out soon. 😀👍
Lighter is better off road. ADV riders have been begging for a lightweight off road oriented ADV bike that makes enough power to cruise on interstates without being near red line. The mainline motorcycle manufacturers reluctantly offered smaller ADV bikes but they seemed careful to feature reduce them to avoid competing with their bloated mid and full size ADV bikes. I bought a G310GS as the best bike for my old man travels, and honestly, it's plenty capable of doing the old man off road riding I want to do. I don't ride on highways much but when I do, I wish it had 50 HP instead of 34 HP. Mostly, I wish it had a 5 gallon fuel tank instead of 2.9 gallons.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments! We have found that we do appreciate the smaller lighter bikes. They did well in the dirt without lack of power. The tires helped and still had enough power. We had larger bikes and would not have taken them to this class. We can tell you… no one paid any attention to us as they were too worried about their own heavy GS bikes. 😂
Glad you enjoyed the training and the dirt bike experience. Looks like a pretty amazing rally!! That is a LOT of bikers. Wish we could have seen more of the views, just curious, what was the reason you couldn't show us more of that? - Michelle
Love your comment! The views here seem to be off in the distance… yet everywhere around us. Simply beautiful really.
Can you believe the number of bikers and tents?! So fun!