Tell me I am reading this wrong

[dw200]

I put this in the approprate area to continue it. After getting the donated 82 GS650 running, I looked up the tire date codes as others have suggested. In the pic I have, there is 466 in the oval. DOT is in front so I am sure I am looking at the code. This would make the build date somewhere around November of 86. There is too much tread to be on the ground since then and no dry rot. Is it possible to be NOS? Front tire was replaced in 2005. Haven't run into the original owner to ask.

[Steve]

Why couldn't it have been Novermber of nineteen NINETY six?

Either way, you need to replace it.

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[dueller]

Why couldn't it have been Novermber of nineteen NINETY six?

Either way, you need to replace it.

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If it's '96 there should be a triangle in there per

http://www.roadrunner.travel/article-6336.php

"Before 2000 the date is indicated by two numbers for the week and one for the year in the decade. In the case of my 475 Bonnie hoop, the tire was made in week 47 of 1995. How do I know it was ‘95, not ‘85 or even ‘75? For the 1990s only, a small triangle was used as a suffix to indicate that decade. Before 1990, you’re on your own. And you probably should have tossed them by now anyway."

[Steve]

As many tires as I went through during those years, and as long as I have been aware of the date code, I never saw a triangle on any of my tires.

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[tkent02]

It's a museum piece either way.

[dw200]

That's what I thought. Beats me though how the tire could be in as good of shape as it is being that old with the miles the bike has on it (50K).

[themess]

Suzuki was selling NOS tires for 1982 GS 650 G at least as late as 1997. I might still have a letter from US Suzuki as evidence.

A lightly used tire that hasn't been exposed to lots of oxygen, oil or ozone will be pretty much in new condition, even 30 years later. When I worked for Firestone, they kept track of front tractor tires, and fire engine tires, that had been in use for decades with no problems.

Still, tires of today are far better than the tires of 30 years ago, and even today's cheap tires will beat NOS tires from the early 1980s.

[dw200]

Thank you. That would explain the condition of the tire. I'll ask the original owner when I see him next. The bike is not ready for the road anyway. Need a brake rebuild first.