I'm getting a new tire this week. My front is shot. Of course I will
be using the Pilot Powers. I just don't want to be concerned about
grip from a tire. Milage does bother me a bit. Getting 3500 miles out
of a tire is good for me but expensive. Im sure the roads are good
tires for touring. I don't know if you can do much better than 7k with
a tire on a motorcycle and even if you could it's probobly not worth
the risk. It reminds me of a qoute

"It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought
was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law
of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it
cannot be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add
something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have
enough to pay for something better."

John Ruskin 1898