Are the OEM XPS front tires really directional, on '25 S2S?

[mecsw500]

Well, it appears that I have spoken out of turn here. Should have kept my mouth shut. Those are not directional tires. I think the factory is mounting them the way they do so the blocks match as the inside blocks look to be larger than the outside blocks.

So, please disregard what I said. My bad!

No, no. Please speak out. I'd rather go look and find out I was fine rather than have a tire unravel on me.

Thanks for all the information you take the time to hand out.

I'd rather have false positives than false negatives. Or is that the other way around. Well, whatever, many thanks again.

 

[BajaRon]

I don't know that I've ever had anyone thank me for bad advice. But much appreciated anyway!

Soooo, back to what I was thinking, we should be able to rotate the wheels if we wanted to. The manual probably hasn't been looked at too close to catch the error?

Should be able to. I don't see why not. So, the manual says they are directional? It does not appear that they think so at the BRP factory. Very strange, but updates to the owner's manual have been notoriously lacking at times.

It is odd that there appear to be directional arrows on these tires. Apparently, they are just confusing decoration.