dealer mistake

Hi guys,  

The other day I found a big nail in the rear tire of my FZ1.  Since the tires only had about 1700 miles and the front was in pretty good shape, I figured that I could get away with only replacing the rear.  Unfortunately I asked for a new Michelin Pilot Road and somehow got a Michelin Pilot Power installed instead.  Although the tire is the correct size I am a bit annoyed because I wanted the longer wear of the pilot road.  I am also more annoyed at myself for not double checking my receipt before I left the bike.

I know that I am probably OK with this combination, but is there anything I should watch out for from this mixed bag?  The bike is mostly used for riding 2 up and not super aggressively.

A friend and fan in NJ.  

There's no way for you to return the bike and get the correct tire?

If not, that combination shouldn't be dangerous or anything, but you may experience some minor issues here and there. You might experience some weird steering characteristics, because the profiles between the two tires are different. You'll also most likely find the ride quality in the rear to suffer, because the Pilot Power's overall construction is stiffer than the Pilot Road to handle the higher intended speeds/loads.  

Unfortunately I didn't double check the my sales receipt which said pilot power.  To that extent I am somewhat complicit. To be honest my choices are:

(1) Ride the current setup. (I am taking a long straight ride across country in June
   and at the end of that trip both tires are likely shot.)
(2) Burn a perfectly good front tire and replace it with a pilot power to match the
   the one in the rear. (I don't like shelling out money for something I already
   have, but if I don't like the "feel" of the bike I'll do this if I have to.)
(3) Talk the dealer into putting the correct tire on the rear. (Not likely and
   probably not going to happen since I rode the tire home and it's now used.)

Thanks  

At this point, we'd just try riding on the tire combination a bit to see how it feels, and if you don't notice anything out of the ordinary, it should be OK. What tire is on the front?  

There is a pilot road on the front.  I road them this morning and the difference is hard to notice.  No odd squirm and both tires track true to each other.  It's on an FZ1 and I'm going to ride "fuzzy" from NJ to Las Vegas in June and I expect the tires to be pretty much shot after that.

Thanks for answering the question and doing that good bike magazine stuff that you guys do. Sorry that you have to do it in El Segundo now as I used to live out there. Maybe you can cut and send me a cubic foot of air as a souvenir,if I remember right it's solid enough that you don't need a box.  

Actually, El Segundo isn't bad at all. If it's the air quality you're referring to, it's close to the beach, so it's really nice.  

Being near the beach always helps as I used to live in Huntington Beach and liked to ride the Ortega highway.  Never really rode north of Long Beach as I always ended up traveling south or east.  

The air quality thing about SoCal is overblown, IMO. It's never been bad in the LA basin for quite some time, since the 70s.

Sorry, getting off topic.  

no probs....I was only joking and I feel the same way about NJ  

Actually, the bad air in LA peaked in the early 90's.  New emission standards at that time dramatically improved air quallity.  

Actually, bad air quality peaked in 1980, according to measurements from the SCAQMD (South Coast Air Quality Management District) and CARB. From that point on, the number of days that air quality in Los Angeles exceeded the "Stage 1 Smog Alert" status (0.20ppm ozone) began decreasing rapidly, and have continued to the point that the last time a Stage 1 smog alert occurred in Southern California was in the year 2000.

Numerous air quality laws and standards were being put into effect as early as 1967 (Federal Air Quality Act of 1967).