Tire Sale at Cycle Gear...Yeah Baby!

Biometrix · 01-27-2008, 5:52 PM

So the Bird needs a new back tire. No problem. I decide I want a Michelin Pilot Road 2. Call my local tire guy who I've used for years. No answer...hmmm. Call the next day, phone is disconnected. Swing by his shop, sign on the door says "I have retired". DOH!

Now before we go any further with this story I know I could mount my own tires but I just don't feel like it. I do all my own wrenching except for tires. Besides my tire guy (before he retired) was cool to shoot the breeze with and talk about bikes while he mounted my tires. I also know I could buy one off the internet but NO ONE around here will mount tires unless you buy them from them.

Anyhow, I decide to drive to the nearest Stealer and see how much they are going to bend me over for the tire. I get there, it's a Yami dealer. Skinny girl behind the counter looks up the tire and says, "Pilot Road?" and I say, "no, Pilot Road 2" and she says, "I don't have that in my catalog (Parts Unlimited) but it's last year's catalog so if I order the Pilot Road I'm sure I'll get the Pilot Road 2 since it's the latest." I say, "I'm sure you won't since they are two completely different tires." I ask if she can call and she agrees so she calls and tells me that the list price is $206 but she'll sell it to me for $191, plus mounting & balancing. WOW! $15 whole dollars what a bargain! Oh but wait...it's back ordered. Should be in in 2-3 weeks. WTF!

So I take a drive to the Cycle Gear store, not expecting any joy. Never been there before and it's been open for about a year. Walk in and ask how much for the tire? $189.99 BUT if I buy it today it's 25% off. I ask if they have it in stock and the guy says yup. I ask if they mount and balance and the guy says only if you take the wheel off and bring it in. I said great, it's in the back of my car. Let me go get it. Bring it in and 1/2 an hour later I'm all mounted, balanced and ready to go. So not including mounting and balancing ($20) I got the tire for $142.49.

I think this may be the last tire I have mounted by a third party. With three bikes and with what I can get the tires off the internet for, I expect the gear I would need would pay for itself after one or two seasons. But, if you have a Cycle Gear store around keep an eye out for sales. There are definitely bargains to be had.

Now I just need some warmer weather here and maybe I'll even get ride one of my bikes.

flblackbird · 01-27-2008, 8:05 PM

I ride w\a couple of guys that work @ the Daytona Cycle Gear, great bunch of guys, they're the only ones I let change my tires now

They also have in store sales\specials that they don't advertise, all ya gotta do is ask 'em.

DragonXX · 01-28-2008, 7:32 PM

Lucky damn Yankees !
Around these parts we're are looking at between $300 - $355 (fitted and balanced) for rear boots and around $200 for fronts