A tyre is not a tyre! Bob Jane will quote you a life of up to 100,000km out of their allrounders, but the drawback is they don't stick.

The old grand rally tryes used to wear the road out before the tread wore out, but again, no-one would touch them unless you wanted something only marginally better than bare rims or were the tightest a***hole in town.

Fact is that people who go sticky tyres get less life out of them for two reasons.

1. The tread is a softer compound and wears out quicker.
2. People who like sticky tyres are often giving the tyres a hard workout and using the extra grip they payed for, thereby wearing them out even quicker.

By comparison, people who buy hard, long life tyres are not interested in taking a corner hard and stepping the a** out. Nor do those people, in my opinion, have any regard for their safety, or other people's safety in an emergency.... especially at freeway speeds.

The other thing people don't consider is the age of the tyre, not just the distance it has travelled. I replace tyres when they're worn out, or every 3 years. Since I don't do many km per year, and a set of tyres probably lasts me 3 years, I don't see the point in saving $150 on a set of tyres to get cheap, long wearing ones and replace them when they're only 50% worn.

I have BOGE front shocks in mine (steady, i figured you would have got the same... mheh) and they are really good