I'm going to the Dark Side

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Steve in Golden
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I'm going to the Dark Side

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All these years, I've been paying top dollar for motorcycle tires for my motorcycle. Now it turns out, I could have just been using car tires. Much cheaper and last much longer, why the hell not? I'm tired of paying $400 every time I need tires for my MC, after only about 7K miles or so. What a rip! I will now be expecting to get at least 50,000 miles out of my MC tires.

I'm going to the "dark side". :D

Tales From the Dark Side: Putting Car Tires on Motorcycles
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Major Softie
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Car tires on motorcycles actually have made sense to me in one circumstance, and ONLY one circumstance: hacks. Near as I can tell, the forces on a hack tire are about the same as on a car tire and very unlike the forces on a conventional motorcycle tire.
MS - out
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Major Softie wrote:Car tires on motorcycles actually have made sense to me in one circumstance, and ONLY one circumstance: hacks. Near as I can tell, the forces on a hack tire are about the same as on a car tire and very unlike the forces on a conventional motorcycle tire.
True, that. Interestingly, when a guy I know tried to get a Chang Jiang with a sidecar inspected here on the island, they required him to replace the sidecar specific tires that came with it to regular motorcycle tires... idiots!
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Chuey
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Re: I'm going to the Dark Side

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Steve in Golden wrote:I'm going to the "dark side". :D
Oh, I thought your headlight had burned out.

Chuey
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