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I put 11000+ miles on mine, did the MABDR when they had about 5000 Miles, they do good in all except in mud or very loose gravel. This is on an overloaded GSA. Had a mishap on a hill going up after the rain and it went down on me, front tire slid out.
 
Had a set mounted this week. Man we’re they expensive!! Price went up recently, but I really don’t have a choice. I’ve been burning through other tires in just a few thousand miles.

Mud and creek crossings are challenging with these tires, but I can live with that if I can get 8,000 miles out of a rear tire. Time will tell.
 
Had a set mounted this week. Man we’re they expensive!! Price went up recently, but I really don’t have a choice. I’ve been burning through other tires in just a few thousand miles.

Mud and creek crossings are challenging with these tires, but I can live with that if I can get 8,000 miles out of a rear tire. Time will tell.
I have 8.5k on my set and they still look good.
 
I bit the bullet and went with the TMMs. 40 miles on them and loving them so far!.... I moved from the Bridgestone Battlax A41Fs that came on the bike new..... They were not as aggressive as the TMM, and 100% louder in the front than the TMMs. I was worried about the noise from the front, but so far not the same road howl I had with the Bridgestones new. I'll check back in after a few thousand.
Bridgestone A41 are the noisiest danged tires I've ever seen! 500 miles and I replaced them with Conti Trail Attack....OMG~! The difference is astounding. No negatives on wet and dry so far with the TAs. Have not been off-road and don't expect to be very much. I'd put Trial Attack up with the best street tires...plus they have...TREAD DEPTH and stuff. So quiet too!

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Bridgestone A41 are the noisiest danged tires I've ever seen! 500 miles and I replaced them with Conti Trail Attack....OMG~! The difference is astounding. No negatives on wet and dry so far with the TAs. Have not been off-road and don't expect to be very much. I'd put Trial Attack up with the best street tires...plus they have...TREAD DEPTH and stuff. So quiet too!

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I believe he was looking for a more "off-road" tire.
 
FYI, so far I have gotten 14,147 miles on my rear Trailmax Mission tire. I'll put another 1,000 +or- miles on it before changing. Those 14,000+ miles include dual sport riding in the Texas Hill County, coal country in West Virginia, Driftless Areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the southern half to the MABDR and lots of gravel in Kansas and Missouri. It also included miles on black top. Most of the miles would have been blacktop, the majority of time off blacktop.

The tires hook up just fine in all situation I found myself in. For value based on miles ridden, I don't believe there is a better tire for my type of riding.
 
FYI, so far I have gotten 14,147 miles on my rear Trailmax Mission tire. I'll put another 1,000 +or- miles on it before changing. Those 14,000+ miles include dual sport riding in the Texas Hill County, coal country in West Virginia, Driftless Areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the southern half to the MABDR and lots of gravel in Kansas and Missouri. It also included miles on black top. Most of the miles would have been blacktop, the majority of time off blacktop.

The tires hook up just fine in all situation I found myself in. For value based on miles ridden, I don't believe there is a better tire for my type of riding.

Enjoy! I'm more of a road-burner and I just don't like the clunky feel of more dirt-oriented tires. It seems I end up doing about 30 minutes of unpaved riding every time I go on a new route. This is because a lot of states don't differentiate paved from unpaved on their maps and coding for GPS, so you get cool looking county roads that aren't paved and even have water crossings. That happened in Missouri for me. So far, TA3's have got me through. The rest of the time, they're superb...as good as the best full street tires IMHO.

I just feel that, with a bike as heavy and expensive as a GS/GSA that purposely going out and flogging the thing on gnarly dirt is a not great idea....at least for me. If you have been to all the classes and have the skills, go for it. I'll be slicing up paved corners on my TA3s.
 
FYI, so far I have gotten 14,147 miles on my rear Trailmax Mission tire. I'll put another 1,000 +or- miles on it before changing.
I’m a bit dumbfounded (and amazed) how a tire with that type of longevity can have such good wet/dry grip. Kind of defies common sense. They practicing witchcraft at the Dunlop factory?

When I first got my GSA went through a few different knobby rears, and never got over 3000 miles. E-07+ gets me 5000. Only thing keeping me from the Missions is the weight—and my desire for new tires more often than they will enable. :ROFLMAO:
 
It does have better dry traction over wet but when roads are wet I have never been one to push it.

I too was only getting about 3000 miles on knobby rear tries and I was going through 3 rear tires a year. It was expensive. I got 5-6000 miles on TKC 70Rocks but when I was looking for another 70Rocks 2 years ago, none could be found so I put on the TMM. Last year I got about 12,000+ on it as well.

I don't like the TMM front tire so I'll put on a knobby.
 
It does have better dry traction over wet but when roads are wet I have never been one to push it.

I too was only getting about 3000 miles on knobby rear tries and I was going through 3 rear tires a year. It was expensive. I got 5-6000 miles on TKC 70Rocks but when I was looking for another 70Rocks 2 years ago, none could be found so I put on the TMM. Last year I got about 12,000+ on it as well.

I don't like the TMM front tire so I'll put on a knobby.
+1 on this. These tires have great dry traction. I am not a knee dragger, but have ridden them pretty spiritedly on the Cherohala and they did well. When it's wet, I drive very cautiously, because, well, being in the hospital sucks, and I have nothing to prove. I have Trail Attack 3s on my 21 GS Rallye and they have been excellent for 7k miles. I have a set of TMMs to go on in the next 1,000 miles.
 
Anyone have an opinion on the Heidenau Scouts vs. the TMM, both are long mileage tires. I have a set of Scouts that came on my '12 GS & can't really fault them for anything & they work pretty good in the So. Fl. dirt & sand. I figure I'll need new by the time I take off traveling in Aug.
 
Anyone have an opinion on the Heidenau Scouts vs. the TMM, both are long mileage tires. I have a set of Scouts that came on my '12 GS & can't really fault them for anything & they work pretty good in the So. Fl. dirt & sand. I figure I'll need new by the time I take off traveling in Aug.
I definitely have a very negative opinion of the tires. I was gravel road riding in SE Kansas. That night I checked the tires and there were large chunks (size of a dime to have dollar) of rubber missing, exposing the belts. Check out this thread: https://advrider.com/f/threads/wtf-heidenau.1326495/ Maybe they solved the problem but lost me forever because of the problem.

 
Anyone have an opinion on the Heidenau Scouts vs. the TMM, both are long mileage tires. I have a set of Scouts that came on my '12 GS & can't really fault them for anything & they work pretty good in the So. Fl. dirt & sand. I figure I'll need new by the time I take off traveling in Aug.
No personal experience but seems the TMM will be much better in the wet and nearly equal on longevity based on comments I’ve seen.
 
Damn, after those pics my paranoia level is maxed. I have to say though mine have some mileage on them & look just fine with no evidence of cracks or lost chunks whatso ever, just a developing flat spot from too much highway riding.
 
I got out yesterday and practiced about 200 miles of social distancing on one of my favorite rides down Maryland's Eastern Shore into the Blackwater Nature Reserve. All paved miles so this first entry in this thread is about how they perform on the road. Dunlop is marketing them as a 50:50 tire but they obviously have a less knobby tread pattern than the TKC80s or the Michelin Wilds I'd been riding. My GS is transitioning into more of a touring bike but I wanted a tire that would let me wander off down even the more gnarly forest roads. The main reason I went with these tires was in hopes that they'd cause less noise and vibration than the knobs I'd been running. I had just barely broken them in over about 100 miles when I set out yesterday.

First and most obvious, these tires are extremely quiet compared to the other 50:50 tires I mentioned. There's a slight amount of road noise I would say is only slightly worse than any street tire I've had on various bikes (Michelin PR3 or 4, Conti Sport Attack, Dunlop Q3, etc). Pulling in the clutch to let the engine idle at 60 mph, I can't feel any vibration in my R1200GS and just a perceptible amount of rolling noise. Check!

With only a couple of hundred miles on the tires by the time I got to the twisty roads, I didn't try to push near the limit but rode what I'd call my normal frisky street pace. The rounded profile of the tires made tipping in to the corners feel very neutral with no tendency to resist or wander. When I got back home I still had about 3/4" of chicken strip front and rear and at those lean angles and hard charging out of the corners I felt planted and never got in to the traction control in Dynamic mode. Check!

I thought I'd have more off-road miles on them by now as we'd planned last week to do a couple of sections of the Mid Atlantic BDR. My riding bud called the morning of our departure with a high fever so we punted that trip. Given all this free time and sparse traffic I'm going to try to get off and do a combination of some long highway miles and hit up those couple of nice sections of the BDR in VA and WVa. To my way of thinking, spending time on the bike; carrying my own food with me; and, camping is about the best use of my social distancing time as I can imagine. I'll report up in this thread when I have more experience with them and I hope by the middle/end of the summer I'll have worn these tires out and can report on the mileage I got out of them.
Thanks for the great review! I have a set on the way for the 2018 R1200GSA I just purchased pre-owned with only 9200 miles. It came with Anakee Adventures and they were great on the interstate ride home but I am hoping to have a good tire for the occasional gravel road ride too. Sounds like these might fit the bill and I'll be happy to report back when I have some miles on them.
 
I got out yesterday and practiced about 200 miles of social distancing on one of my favorite rides down Maryland's Eastern Shore into the Blackwater Nature Reserve. All paved miles so this first entry in this thread is about how they perform on the road. Dunlop is marketing them as a 50:50 tire but they obviously have a less knobby tread pattern than the TKC80s or the Michelin Wilds I'd been riding. My GS is transitioning into more of a touring bike but I wanted a tire that would let me wander off down even the more gnarly forest roads. The main reason I went with these tires was in hopes that they'd cause less noise and vibration than the knobs I'd been running. I had just barely broken them in over about 100 miles when I set out yesterday.

First and most obvious, these tires are extremely quiet compared to the other 50:50 tires I mentioned. There's a slight amount of road noise I would say is only slightly worse than any street tire I've had on various bikes (Michelin PR3 or 4, Conti Sport Attack, Dunlop Q3, etc). Pulling in the clutch to let the engine idle at 60 mph, I can't feel any vibration in my R1200GS and just a perceptible amount of rolling noise. Check!

With only a couple of hundred miles on the tires by the time I got to the twisty roads, I didn't try to push near the limit but rode what I'd call my normal frisky street pace. The rounded profile of the tires made tipping in to the corners feel very neutral with no tendency to resist or wander. When I got back home I still had about 3/4" of chicken strip front and rear and at those lean angles and hard charging out of the corners I felt planted and never got in to the traction control in Dynamic mode. Check!

I thought I'd have more off-road miles on them by now as we'd planned last week to do a couple of sections of the Mid Atlantic BDR. My riding bud called the morning of our departure with a high fever so we punted that trip. Given all this free time and sparse traffic I'm going to try to get off and do a combination of some long highway miles and hit up those couple of nice sections of the BDR in VA and WVa. To my way of thinking, spending time on the bike; carrying my own food with me; and, camping is about the best use of my social distancing time as I can imagine. I'll report up in this thread when I have more experience with them and I hope by the middle/end of the summer I'll have worn these tires out and can report on the mileage I got out of them.
I have been running Continental TKC 80's for 16,000 miles, but just mounted a set of Trail Max Missions. They ride great on the road. No wandering on tar snakes. Really looking forward to time in the dirt.
 
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