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Dirtydriftwood said:

 I recently bought an R1200GS Adventure and it came with Meztler Karoo tires on it.  I have just under 2K miles and the back is almost gone.  Granted it is hard to stay off the throttle.  Is there any other tires that can take the dirt but not wear out so fast on the asphalt?  Thanks.

TKC-80's.  Grip pretty well and last a while.  They are the GS standard.

I had one set of Karoo's, they lasted half as long and cost more.

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All the new bikes are coming with karoos, but they used to have the contis tkc-80.  I wanted knobbies for my GS and did a bunch of research adn decided against the karoos for the same reason you asked about.  The contis should get you 5k to 6k depending on your throttle style.  Good in the dirt and cheaper too.  I got mine for a good price at www.arizonamoto.com

Good luck!  Kevin

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my 1150 GSA came with the contis on it. only got 3000 out of them but i have the twitchy wrist syndrome you spoke about. i have since used the metzler tourance tire. it gives me around 7000 to 10,000 miles of wear. depends on how hard on the throtle i am while in the trails. here in southern arizona most of it is hard pack with jagged rock sticking out of it. if you do a lot of miles on pavement to get to here you hit the dirt then the tourance is a good tire, but if the going is mostly soft, sandy, or strechs of mud then the better choise is a knobby tire.