Been a while for me and thought it would ask opinions.

New to me tires i bought have roughly 1/8 more wear down the middle which usually means on a car over inflated. On a bike I usually accuse pavement driving.

On these they had 3pds I them which I ran on my bike no issues so I think, even though he said he didn't pave driving is the issue.

With this said aside from under inflation for outer wear and over inflation for inner, anyone have advice on tire wear issues?

 

if you only running 3 lbs in them then over inflation is not a issue. If the rims are to narrow this will cause them to wear in the middle as well. If your riding on allot of hard pack they could wear faster depending on quality of tire.

 

I noticed that my tires had wear down the middle before winter set in here. Per the manual I put 7 lbs. all the way around. Never saw that kind of wear before but it dawned on me that we did a lot of pavement riding out in Utah on roads used as connectors when it was in the 80's temp-wise. Must have ballooned the tires up and got most the wear in the middle. We'll see if they even out once the riding season starts back up here.

 

You should play around with tire pressure. Generally the fronts like a bit more pressure than the rears. I've found my Arctic Cats like 7 psi fronts and 5 in the rear. Too soft in the front, they will tend to roll under a bit. Most ATV tires don't like riding on pavement much, and will wear the centers first.

 

i run 5 in the fronts and 4 in the rears. I have a fairly stiff sidewall on my tire. Even with the stock tires i had on my cat i never ran more than 6lbs in the front

 

I go just under 5 psi all the way around. I could see if you wanted to do some slower speed trails or serious rock crawling to go a bit lower than that to get more sidewall flex and get a little better traction. Probably snow as well, you need all the extra traction you can get in the snow. I see no reason to ever go any higher than 5 psi though. I had neglected to check my tires for a while and had to air them up last weekend. They had gotten so low on pressure that they barely registered on my tire gage but the sidewalls still felt pretty stiff. I think that's what hampered my high speed run I made the previous weekend. Low tire pressure slowed my top end speed. With them inflated to slightly under 5 psi, it definitely goes faster on top end. I hit 63 mph following my buddy's rzr 900 xp and still had a little more left. I think I can hit 65 mph now, maybe even a little more.

 

Yup, for me, a normal set up is 6psi in the front 5psi in the rear. Front shocks set on 2, rear set on 4(stiffer). If I know the majority will be in soft, wet, muddy terrain then I'm going down to 4 and 3 psi respectfully.
Most time rides are multi terrain and require a rider to concede on the setup. I'm not too sure that we will ever achieve the perfect tire wear for our machines.. but as long as it's close, then isn't it acceptable? For me it is, and I can live with 1/8th of an inch...

 

I always run 5 to 5.5 PSI in my front and rear tires and haven't ridden enough miles to ever put much wear on them. One of my friends had to get a new front tire on the left side only and will need a left rear tire before long. He had a LOT of wear on the left side from riding the shoulder of the road with one side on the pavement. As long as we stay off the pavement none of us has much wear. If your tires had a lot of wear in the center it was probably from riding on pavement.

 

Allot depends on tire compound as well. I have over 5000km on my tires and they show very little ware. I ride a good mix of hard pack and trail with pavement tossed into the mix

 

Those are some seriously great wearing tires. Most tires start showing wear at well under half that. By that point, most would be completely bald. I don't know how many miles my mudlites had on them when I started but I've put about 450 miles on them in the year I've had my quad and I see very little wear. Probably not the kind of longevity you're getting but maybe 2000 miles or around 3000km would be expected.