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I'm going to the Dark Side
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:55 pm
by Steve in Golden
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".
Tales From the Dark Side: Putting Car Tires on Motorcycles
Re: I'm going to the Dark Side
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:36 pm
by Major Softie
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.
Re: I'm going to the Dark Side
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:42 pm
by Deleted User 62
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!
Re: I'm going to the Dark Side
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:16 am
by Chuey
Steve in Golden wrote:I'm going to the "dark side".
Oh, I thought your headlight had burned out.
Chuey