Where is a good place to buy tires?

[Sandy]

Not Canada.

Are you reasonably close to the US border? If so have them shipped to drop point at your nearest border crossing and go pick them up. If not the 2 choices mentioned are your best bet. My last tire order from Dennis Kirk was for a pair of Dunlop GT501s (not cheap) and 2 tubes. Total bill was $230.00 USD. It cost me a 2 hour drive (1 each way) and I get to fill up the tank with cheap US gas which covers any fuel costs for the trip.

[bccap]

Are you reasonably close to the US border? If so have them shipped to drop point at your nearest border crossing and go pick them up. If not the 2 choices mentioned are your best bet. My last tire order from Dennis Kirk was for a pair of Dunlop GT501s (not cheap) and 2 tubes. Total bill was $230.00 USD. It cost me a 2 hour drive (1 each way) and I get to fill up the tank with cheap US gas which covers any fuel costs for the trip.

Sandy. Check out the two places Trevor and Gatekeeper are talking about. My last set of Pirelli Sport Demons came from Pete's. Even with taxes and delivery charges they came in for $20 more than the best deal I could find in the states. FedEx in five days to my door....

[GSJim]

Pete's had the best deal for BT45s last year. The only slight difficulty with Internet ordering in Toronto is that some shops either won't mount Pete's tires at all or they charge a lot more. Pete did have a deal with Heritage Autosports in North York but that shop ran into landlord problems and is currently missing in action.

A local Suzuki shop quoted me $125 more for the same pair of tires last year. Canada's Motorcycle was within $10 of the Pete's price.

Jim

[Sandy]

Sandy. Check out the two places Trevor and Gatekeeper are talking about. My last set of Pirelli Sport Demons came from Pete's. Even with taxes and delivery charges they came in for $20 more than the best deal I could find in the states. FedEx in five days to my door....

Thanks, will do again. Looked a few years ago and they weren't close on what I wanted.

[Sandy]

Ok, I gladly stand corrected. I don't need anything right now but to be fair I checked both against US pricing. Canadian Motorcycle only listed the front and $30.00 more than Pete's. Pete's had both front and rear listed in my sizes and after shipping taxes, my US$ price converted to CDN$ and using current web pricing Pete's was actually slightly cheaper .