MS1700 wrote:
Run whatever you decide on, But don't listen to anyone who does not run a car tire, logic seems to mislead these people into telling myths. The Car tire will NOT get up on the edge, The contact patch will always be larger, It isn't so 'Pinched' on the rim, Heck the comtrac is made for our size rim! And, it's a bolt on no clearance issues. There is nothing you need to know to get it to turn but how to take a old tire off and put a new one on.

Yes there is a break in,
Yes it takes about 1000 to 1500 to carve curves better than you did with an MC tire,
Yes it will outlast about 5 MC tires no matter who makes em,
Yes you will have better traction in all surfaces and much larger contact patch,
Yes the right size tire is a bolt on.
Yes it's best to run a sticky rear tire up front with your CT (MT66 is great)
Yes your best info is on the Darkside forums from people who run Car Tires.
Yes a Cart Tire stays on the tread and does not get up on the sidewall while riding in curves.

NO it's not for everyone! If you don't go through more than two tires a year you probably should not do it. Because you don't have the riding experience to run it, and you won't get much benefit out of it because the tire will be over 4 years old before you even wear it out.

It is a WIDE tire and it requires no MODS on a stock bike to mount.



This is my print after going through some dust onto pavement. I'll bet my tire no MC tire that is a bolt on will have that much of a Contact patch. The front print is a Rear MC Tire, a MT66 Reversed also larger contact patch than any Front MC tire in a stock size.

Myths Busted! I have one on! I can take curves faster, I can go into them quicker and come out of them faster just because of the gobs of traction I have in the rear, With an MC tire on the rear i would be skidding out braking down this quick and breaking traction on exiting. You can't beat the Car Tire in any adverse weather conditions with an MC tire. That's my story and I am sticking to it.

lol and that settles that

First off the diagram is incorrect. One of the biggest misconceptions is that a car tire is flat. They're just less rounded than a motorcycle tire. The center 50%-60% is flat and the edges are rounded. On a cruiser you can grind pegs or floorboards all day and still have as much (or more) contact as a M/C tire. You are always on the tread.

This is the Kumho 165/80R15 (after 5000 miles) on the rear of my Venture.

BigBoyinMS wrote:
This is the Kumho 165/80R15 (after 5000 miles) on the rear of my Venture.


It hardly even looks worn. To bad they don't make a wide whitewall for both sides of the tire.

No popcorn needed, Only listen to people running the darkside. I too was very skeptical, Cash out for an MC tire every 5K miles (Ok I ran em 2K too long to 7K) is sure cure for skepticism. I have that Crazy Marine to thank for first posting going Darkside, (You know who you are, Semper Fi and Happy B Day!) We have already posted the videos of darkside tires running curves. Google it or You Tube it yourself. No Roadstar with an MC tire is going to have more traction than one with a 'Car Tire' I use that term loosely because it's a DOT approved tire mounted on a Bike, that makes it a bike tire.

Going darkside one of 2 of the problems you have to get used to is SO much traction. The other is sticking to your line in a sharp curve when the weight is going from 50/50 two sidewals to 30/70. You have to have riding experience to have the discipline to stick with your plan, It will come to you, some quicker than others. If you rode dirt bike, the transition is easy.

It's NOT for everyone, No balls, no glory. I'm up on 5K here pretty soon on mine, About the time i would be looking for a new rear tire. And debating to go Darkside or not. Glad those days are over.

How are you riding that you only get 5-7k from a tire? I'm just over 8k on this one and it still looks great!???

I used a car tire on my 1953 panhead chopper,had to use an inner tube(spoke wheels) it rode good and also helped soften up that hardtail ride!!

I could not afford to buy harleys special?? motorcycle tires,and a harley dealer told me " ya lookin for trouble boy"...... cause that was the same dealer who would not sell harley parts for choppers!... in 1968....

obg

jamie99roadstar wrote:

It hardly even looks worn. To bad they don't make a wide whitewall for both sides of the tire.

Actually... if you want to spend the money there is a company DBtires.com that can vulcanize white sidewalls of any width to a CT. You end up at about the price of a top of the line MC tire.
PegScraper on the VentureRiders forum did it on his Royal Star.

Darn wrote:
How are you riding that you only get 5-7k from a tire? I'm just over 8k on this one and it still looks great!???

Yea I kept saying to Makcap mine looks great, The sides looked great but the travel portion should have been ditched 3K miles earlier and I hate that about an MC tire. The part you travel on is so far can in relation to the edges. It's not cool especially in Rain. I had Avons and was lucky to squeeze 8K out of one, another cracked at the sidewalls at about 3K. Not to mention repairing one, CT VS MC tire? Think. And a MC tire at 8K has lost a lot of rubber in the middle, a CT will be the same and have same handling throughout the life of the tire.

way beyond leaving out for a trip.

Darn wrote:
How are you riding that you only get 5-7k from a tire? I'm just over 8k on this one and it still looks great!???

he used to run 50psi in the rear