WR250R Tires...

120/90/18 rear, 90/90/21 front and you're good to go.

inspector wrote:

Thanks shewolf. I just read a bunch of reviews on them and also a friend found a place selling them pretty cheap. I think I am sold. All I need to know is the exact size on both so I don't order the wrong ones. lol

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malibu_dan wrote:

inspector wrote:

Thanks shewolf. I just read a bunch of reviews on them and also a friend found a place selling them pretty cheap. I think I am sold. All I need to know is the exact size on both so I don't order the wrong ones. lol

Don't be stingy... share!

Don't know the policy on links here. If this is wrong then please delete.

I usually buy from http://www.swmototires.com/. Good people and usually good prices.
Place that had a good deal is http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/2/29/393/5337/ITEM/Dunlop-D606-Dual-Sport-Rear-Tire.aspx

*i feel bad now, didn't even check any of our sponsors.

We're not anal with links. If it helps out fellow riders, it's all good.

Well I just mounted up my 606's and I have to say that I am not happy with the increased ride height and the change to the gearing due to the larger rear. I am going to look for the standard 80 series sidewall going forward. Just my 2 cents.

just mounted a rear Kenda Trackmaster (110/100-18) and a front Dunlop D952 (stock size)...

I run the same rear and a similar front on my other bike. FWIW, my buddies run MT21's, 606's, and one even has the Terror-flex rear. They skate through the mud and it gums up their treads pretty bad, while the cheapo Trackmaster tracks true and stays clean.

Will get a full report from the Carolina red clay slick-@ss greasy-top mud today!!

Can't say the 606's skate thru mud on my scoot. They fling that shit like no tomorrow.

aye - but this clay down Souf is NASTY (very hard and greasy) - big difference from here even to, say, my home state of Pennsylvania in soil type. Like PA, in BC I'm guessing you have a lot of nice soft loam that cleans off the tire easily...

Not wanting a tire debate, LOL! I'm just adding a data point - from what I've seen/experienced a 606 or MT-21 is not aggressive enough for traction in this particular mud. The knobs are just spaced too closely, the clay packs up between and makes a racing slick...

Yeah, no debating from me. Just for myself I like them. We do have ugly clay up here that sticks like shit to a woolly dog, stains paint and at one point I needed a steam cleaner to get the globs off because the crap was so damned stiff. The logging roads around here are full of that stuff; you know the kind that eats your boots when you step in it.

I'm a Kenda 760 Trakmaster man, myself, run those almost exclusively.

For loose sand or lots of mud, the Kenda Southwick (non DOT) is the bee's knees, or cat's ass; whichever analogy you prefer.

Never used the 606, but they don't look quite agressive enough for me, I agree that the knobs seem spaced too closely.

MT21s are good, but I still prefer the Trakmaster. Personal preference, my 2 cents, YMMV, FWIW, and so on...

Well, the rear Trackmaster II/front D952 was friggin' amazing in the mud today!

I'm curious as to how the D952 will last w/ some street use; I know it's the shizzle in the red clay mud.

Where in western pa is home? I'm in Butler county.

Anywho, when you remove the wheel to change out the tire do you take off the front sprocket or do you have enough slack stock.

mr_beat wrote:

Where in western pa is home? I'm in Butler county.

Anywho, when you remove the wheel to change out the tire do you take off the front sprocket or do you have enough slack stock.

Don't need to touch the front sprocket at all. Hell, I didn't even need to loosen the chain adjusting bolts (what the heck you call them?).

mr_beat wrote:

Where in western pa is home? I'm in Butler county.

Anywho, when you remove the wheel to change out the tire do you take off the front sprocket or do you have enough slack stock.

Just up the road in Clarion, can't wait to get back in June and hit all the zillions of free trails!!!

I just screw in the adjusting bolts a good amount, pull the chain a bit off the rear sprocket at the top, then rotate the wheel backwards a bit - the chain should pop right off the rear sprocket