Originally Posted by
Grim
One of bike needs tires and its my nice bike so its getting $60+ conti's that will last 3k. My truck has 33x12.50's that I bought used for $350 and still have another 30k on them before I need to replace them and I already have drove 15k. crunch those numbers and see what savings of that? There is none, it will cost a LOT more to keep tires on that bike then the truck. It will cost me $2100 in tires on the bike to go as far as the $350 set of tires on the truck are good for.
Tires to tires is a poor comparison. Think of tires for the bike the way you do gas for the truck. Those nice Contis will end up costing you about 4 cents per mile. Being generous and estimating that the truck gets around 20 mpg gas for the truck is currently costing you around 20 cents per mile.