Shinko 244's on the x

Looks purdy to me...

I just received another rear to replace my first one... Thank you again for turning me on to these... love them. 

Recently I installed Kenda 270's on my X. 4.60 and 5.10 front/rear just like everyone else. I am very pleased. I have only ridden about 350 miles, the first 50 or so I had issues with the front tire riding a little squirly. Since then I have ridden in the Colorado rockies and very impressed. This set up allowed me to air down to 12 pounds of pressure, I did not try any lower since we would jump from trail to pavement multiple times a day, and had no issues. Smooth ride off road and stable ride on pavement. I was a little nervous riding 70 mph on pavement with low pressure but they were short jogs so I did not air up. For safety sake I do not recommend doing this. My riding buddies each rode it for a while and one of them is looking to buy an X now. They ride xr650l's as I did and were impressed with how easy the bike was to handle. Thanks for everyones help on this thread. It was a big factor in buying and modifying the X to be an awesome bike. Side note when in Colorado we did Red Cone, Radical Hill, and several other challenging trails and the bike handled all of them well. The only short coming was trying to cruise 70 mph at 10,000 feet with stock gearing. Next year I will gear down a little. Thanks, Justin.

JBEGNOCHE wrote:

Recently I installed Kenda 270's on my X. 4.60 and 5.10 front/rear just like everyone else. I am very pleased. I have only ridden about 350 miles, the first 50 or so I had issues with the front tire riding a little squirly.  Since then I have ridden in the Colorado rockies and very impressed.   This set up allowed me to air down to 12 pounds of pressure, I did not try any lower since we would jump from trail to pavement multiple times a day, and had no issues. Smooth ride off road and stable ride on pavement.  I was a little nervous riding 70 mph on pavement with low pressure but they were short jogs so I did not air up.  For safety sake I do not recommend doing this.  My riding buddies each rode it for a while and one of them is looking to buy an X now.  They ride xr650l's as I did and were impressed with how easy the bike was to handle.  Thanks for everyones help on this thread.  It was a big factor in buying and modifying the X to be an awesome bike.  Side note when in Colorado we did Red Cone, Radical Hill, and several other challenging trails and the bike handled all of them well. The only short coming was trying to cruise 70 mph at 10,000 feet with stock gearing. Next year I will gear down a little.  Thanks, Justin.

K270s are not the same as Shinko 244s... I had the 270s on m y KLR and could not push them anywhere near as hard as I do the 244s on my little bike... not even close.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, I know the kendas are different SLIGHTLY, but comparing tires on your KLR supertanker to a wr250x is a bigger stretch.  I was simply saying I was very happy with the performance of the 270's. I have read opinions about the compound of the Kendas being too soft but I tried them anyway. I have used Kendas for years and am glad I tried them again.

Run the Kendras if you want... I won't. The transition as you start leaning is too squishy for me. I'll take the Shinkos, tyvm. ymmv. good talk:(':deal:'):   

I'm happy with the Shinko 244's on the X.

Here is a photo comparing new one to one with 5,500 miles. New one knob height is 12 mm, used one still has 6 mm remaining!. I was going to replace with new one before heading down to Copper Canyon, but it looks like the old one should be good for the 2000 mile trip.



I've run this set through Copper Canyon, Baja, Mojave desert, lots of highway, and never been disappointed or let down. Never had a flat and yes, air pressure adjustments make the ride.

What tubes do you use with your 17" Shinko 244s?

thanks
js

AZNoob wrote:

What tubes do you use with your 17" Shinko 244s?

thanks
js

I just use whats available or on sale. I did put Moose Racing heavy duty tubes in this time. Not sure what the heavy duty will do for me, they are a lot bulkier and heavier.....