im thinking about using a car tire on the rear of my r* because its lowered and the square car tire will push the pivot point further out to the side giving me more turning radious with out raising my bike any one got any coments on this?

youngblod,

You might want to search for car tires on the RSR forum. I have read a little on them and there are some things you need to do to a car tire to get it to turn.

You are right about the wider pivot point, at least in theory, but the road patch on a square tire will be considerably less.

Just my 2 cents.

jvcexc

Yougblod check this thread out I started awhile back.
http://roadstarclinic.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,187/func,view/id,134698/catid,60/limit,10/limitstart,0/

There is video floting around on you tube of a guy doing a radius circle turn with a goldwing running a M/C tire after getting it wet. His buddy does one right beside his on a goldwing running a car tire and the contact patch is actually about 1" bigger. I guess the car tire squishes easier cause of softer side wall.

I did not go to a car tire this past change. I wanted a little more info and statistics. Yamatazzee on the RSR has a very long thread on The Dark Side (running car tires)

after doing some reasearch i think im just gonna work on a wide tire instead of the car tire.

By the time you mount your "square" car tire on a 3 1/5 wide rim, it gets considerably pinched, and is not near so square anymore either.

Youngblood have you checked this site out??
http://forums.delphiforums.com/DarkSiding/messages

Its all about car tire on mc.

When shopping for bike I was on a Honda VTX site and a ton of guys were runnng car tire but more for milage and cost. They called it going to the darkside here is a link to the site


http://www.vtxoa.com/forums/search.php?searchid=146909

Hi all just been looking at the dark side videos and there seems to be pleanty of tread on the road when cornering,my avon is worn out(no more avons) and have to change soon,so it mets or dark side ,John

I ran Metzler like the car tire better so far it does take some getting use to. But any tire does and I put a perelli rear on the front in reverse rotation. I'm sold it runs great in the rain, grass, and gravel day and night to a bike tire. I have the 175/75/16 which is a van tire and the side walls are much thicker than a bike tire. Just line up a installer before you buy. Use equal or dynabeads for balance. Read up and follow the recommendation of those have gone before.
Oh clearance you asked about I have tricky air and in Dale blues words survey says slam em. Yep cylinder all the way down no rub at all!

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.