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Me and SVmango already discussed this but since then I've gotten way too much conflicting advice...and so now of course I'm asking for even more. 
We're doing a track day this weekend with our street-tards and I didn't want to shred my new Avon Distanzias so I went to the shed looking for the best pair of take-offs I had.
What I found was a pair of Conti-Forces from a year and a half ago that still have a 1/16" of thread or so til the wear-bars and remembered liking them well enough before I started running the Distanzias for all the dirt we do.
The conflicting advice I get is about tire age. The front and rear have manufacture dates of '04 and '05 respectively if I'm even reading Continentals hieroglyphics right. Some say don't ride on anything over three years old and others say that's a race tire rule and street tires are made to last longer knowing they won't be heated to the same extreme and the manufacture knows they can be on the bike a whole lot longer.
So what's the word on older street tires for the track when they look fine (no dry-rot) but are three and four years old.
We're doing a track day this weekend with our street-tards and I didn't want to shred my new Avon Distanzias so I went to the shed looking for the best pair of take-offs I had.
What I found was a pair of Conti-Forces from a year and a half ago that still have a 1/16" of thread or so til the wear-bars and remembered liking them well enough before I started running the Distanzias for all the dirt we do.
The conflicting advice I get is about tire age. The front and rear have manufacture dates of '04 and '05 respectively if I'm even reading Continentals hieroglyphics right. Some say don't ride on anything over three years old and others say that's a race tire rule and street tires are made to last longer knowing they won't be heated to the same extreme and the manufacture knows they can be on the bike a whole lot longer.
So what's the word on older street tires for the track when they look fine (no dry-rot) but are three and four years old.