WOW there is some truly good news and bad news about the Pirelli Night Dragon Motorcycle
Tires. So let’s get that out of the way first.
The good news —- These motorcycle tires handle great! We rode on them in hot and very hot conditions and never felt any traction issues. In wet and VERY wet conditions they are the best motorcycle tires I have every rode on, I never once felt any discomfort on wet roads.
The bad news —- We only got a little more than 12,000 miles on these tires before I had to park the motorcycle to get new tires. I would have hoped that we would have rode over 15K before needing to replace the tires.
So overall what do I think? I love the handling and wet road performance. During our 2017 Motorcycle Vacation almost two-thirds of the trip involved wet roads, rain and torrential downpours. Never once did I feel I needed to worry about slips and slides. I never was fully confident of the Harley Davidson OEM Dunlop tires in the wet so the Pirelli Night Dragons are a step up.
The rear Perilli Night Dragon at about 12.5K
I was disappointed with the mileage wear of the tires. But, is that a tradeoff of grip v. wear? Unfortunately, with these tires, it really is a tradeoff. So it comes down to do I buy tires a little more often for a grip that makes me feel safe (at every lean angle)?
For now the answer is yes, I just ordered a new set of Pirelli Night Dragon motorcycle tires. If I only get another 12K miles maybe I will consider testing another tire.
If you want to see earlier post on the Pirelli Night Dragon tires….
New motorcycle tires! Trying something different.
Motorcycle Product Review: 5000 Miles on the Night Dragon Motorcycle Tires
After all that I am giving these motorcycle tires a 4 out of 5 stars!
Several band of storms later we woke up to another beautiful morning and the weather radar showed that there was no rain anywhere!!!!!!!! Our new plan was to ride cross county to Hartford, CN then down to Danbury then on to Orange County Choppers headquarters in Newburgh, NY.
Teutul’s, the bikes they produced during the run of their show are just so cool to look at in person.
It took about 90 minutes to get to downtown Bar Harbor.
Once on the loop I soon released that that we were fully in tourist season.
were again inundated with cars and tourist, again, not including me!
heading south. 
the hotel. Turns out this is a “Skiing Themed” McDonald’s with six old gondola’s now serving as tables and lots of antique ski equipment scattered around “ski lodge” type paneling, very unique and very cool! OH… and who had ever heard of Lobster Rolls at a McDonald’s? After topping off our bellies and the motorcycle’s tank we hit the road. About 45 minutes later we were at the base of Mt. Washington about to ride up the 
States. You can click on the link to see all the details but here are some highlights; fast wind speed ever recorded (not associated with a hurricane) and on average it snows every month of the year. During the summer the temperatures can often be 40 or more degrees cooler at the top then the base of the mountain. On our accent we started at a temp of 70F by the time we reached the summit the temperature was a crisp 42F. There will be a second post on our ride up and down Mt. Washington as Debbie filmed both the accent and decent of the mountain. I will publish it at a later date after I have time to work on the raw footage.
and headed east. Our goal was ambitious, we wanted to reach Bar Harbor, Maine. You can tell by the title of the post we only made it to Bangor before we called it a day. The plan now is to get up early and get on the road to Bar Harbor and Arcadia National Park. 
We needed to reach Port Kent, New York no later than 930AM in order to make sure we are on the first ferry of the day 
We began the day’s motorcycle ride heading north on the Niagara Scenic Parkway. The parkway runs up the American side of the Niagara River and is an excellent “Chill-out” ride. When the parkway ended the Great Lakes Seaway Trail continued. The Seaway Trail runs along the coast of the lake but only in a few places is it actually on the coast, just as it was during the 
admired the views of the lake. After a while we rolled up onto the Lake Ontario State Parkway, this parkway did actually run on the coast for a good part of the time. BUT, there was a 6-10 mile stretch of the road that was like riding on a washboard. By the time this part of the road was over we felt as if we had completed 100 rodeo bull rides, 1,000 jumping jacks and run a jack hammer for 10,000 hours! This was one of those rides where it was just horrible during but becomes funny and a great story afterwards.
The folks that work there were super friendly and knowledgeable! Turns out they are the sponsors of 
After leaving Harv’s we got back on the Seaway Trail, after a little why we started talking about the time of day how much further we had to go. This was the point I realized that I had miscalculated the time required to get to Lake Placid. We decided to hop up on the Interstate and get going! We pulled into Lake Placid about 6PM, I really don’t like riding that long when we are trying to have a leisurely vacation.
We did not do a lot a riding today. We took the motorcycle to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls to check out the sites an some of the tourist trap things. We ended the day riding the Maid of the Mist boat up to the falls… and that is where we got wet today!
I JUST WANT 2 RIDE!! 