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Kenda tires - I truly don't understand the hateful responses to Kenda tires. I have over 22,000 km on mine and they're only 50% worn.
- Thread starter Jimhunt
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TheMariner
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Fortunately for us Australians, the OEM Kenda tyres are almost exclusively stocked by Can Am dealers only so their price suffers from supply chain markups. Car tyres are not only cheaper, but better. Win, win!
Woodenfish
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My Kenda’s must be defective. Both of my Spyders have OEM Kenda tires and they both ride smoothly, have good traction, and are problem free. 
My Kenda’s must be defective. Both of my Spyders have OEM Kenda tires and they both ride smoothly, have good traction, and are problem free.
You might want to be juuust a little wary of gloating about that too much - quite a few who weren't initially having any problems with their Kendas have since discovered to their dismay (and often many wasted $$ looking for alternative causes of their problems) that the Kendas don't necessarily cause issues immediately, but they really do tend to waaaayyyy more often than almost any other tire!
For some, they may never ride hard enough to recognise or bring about any problems, or it might just take them a while before any noticeable issues start to show up; for a very lucky few, they might even get away with running a set of Kendas or even maybe even more than one set of Kenda tires without any major issues appearing! But very few ever get away with Kendas behaving/working well all the time; and almost invariably, once these 'former praise singers' eventually DO swap to just about any other 'real' car tire from the Kendas, they discover how much better performance, traction, ride, handling, etc they were really missing, and even if they don't like to admit it in public, once they've tried some proper tires and become used to running them at the right pressure, they generally end up saying 'Why was I such a denier &/or why didn't I do this sooner?!'
Most will eventually agree that Kendas &/or their clones/derivatives really do have more failures and problems than just about any other tire they've ever heard of, let alone owned; and very, VERY few willingly go back to running Kendas after trying just about any 'real' alternative. But I guess there's always gotta be the odd exception just to prove 'the rule'!
So maybe you are that 'lucky' one... or maybe you just haven't found out how bad they really can be - YET! 
troop
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I know I'm a broken record, but if you have never driven a Spyder with a car tire up front, you certainly have no idea what you're missing in regards to ride and handling. Many may be certainly happy and satisfied with OEM/Kanines, but car tires are truly a noticeable improvement. I have not seen any comments about a Spyder owner saying "These car tires suck. I'm going back to the Kenda's."
DickB
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troop
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Actually, he never even put it on to try! And .. We never heard back from him again! Did he ever decide to put it on? But I guess I should have specified front tires.
Did you read that thread @DickB?
As Troop mentioned, the OP there, @Sundown didn't actually fit anything else to try; AND he compounded his error by believing the BS from his dealer that the tire he was GOING to try wouldn't work/wouldn't be good for him, when the dealer was spouting all these reasons for it not being good, except all those reasons are amongst the things that actually make that size an even better choice of size than the nominal Kenda's size!!
So that particular thread &/or poster isn't a really good example of anyone who has tried a/mkt tires and yet gone back to the Kendas - that one is yet another thread all about someone not actually trying...
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