Way Too Expensive For The Tire Replacement and Oil Change!

< A Premature Death of My Anakee III >

I would expect at least 10,000km out of my stock tire but I got it changed anyway. As I have posted in another blog entry, it was due to the air leakage at the same spot where I patch up the tire last time.

I guess some people would keep using the tire, or get the tire patched up from the inside of the tire and get on with it, in the hope of squeezing more life out of the tire.

I would like to do the same very much, however, after weighing the risk and the cost of a tire replacement, I have decided to change the tire.

And it cost me a small fortune. Really? USD270 for a tire replacement?? And another USD140 for an oil change that didnt come up the oil filter?

Dear readers please tell me how much you have spent for a Anakee III. Knowing a lower price from you will definitely hurt me more but I need to know just the same.

I somehow think there is so much hidden cost or unnecessary “value added” for these imported brands of tire. 

(I am living in Japan hence Michelin is an imported item)

Can anyone recommend me a Bridgestone tire??  :-)

On a side note, I have decided to do the oil change myself from now on, although I have never done it my whole life. Dear readers, my Lara is a 2015 model F700GS. Can you please tell me what are the tools that I need to do the oil change? The drain nut looks to be the allen type. 

Thank you and wish me luck!

Cheers.

Regards,

CK