Car tyres on motorcycles?

[kiwifruit]

Has anyone known anyone who's done this? Madness! It's not uncommon in the USA.

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[Madness]

I know of a Wellington (K)biker that has run a car radial on a Vulcan. Bugger that!

[Kickaha]

I did quite a bit of reading about it ages ago and it seems reasonably common

The only thing I'd be worried about is insurance issues in the event of a crash

[Viscount Montgomery]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

[Sable]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

Cool story bro. Been hitting the spots?

[unstuck]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

You a bit sensitive about this subject mate?:laugh:

[kiwifruit]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

Interesting thoughts, thank you. Have you riden on a car tyre?

[Kickaha]

The only thing I can't undertsand is why they run such a high pressure, it shouldn't be needed for the load it's carrying

[Bikemad]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

deep breath mate..............and may i suggest a bottle of evening primrose oil caps fella
met a guy at the puhoi one day ridin a rocket 3 who had done the same............when asked how the steering geometry must be affected by the tyre tipping like in the video he replied he only runs about twenty something pounds in it so the sidewall collapses rather than tips as in the vid,reckons he saves a couple hundy on a tyre...........i reckon hes nuts...........sidewalls aren't designed to collapse

[Crasherfromwayback]

tossers wanking fucken bullshit jerk-off fucking crap, fucking fuckers, fucken shit cunt sugar-sweet and lovely

Run out of crack at the end there?

[Kickaha]

.i reckon hes nuts...........sidewalls aren't designed to collapse
I'd be interested in checking the interior of the tyre after it's been run, it's easy to tell if it's being damaged by the low pressure

[SS90]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

This is going on the fridge at work!

[tigertim20]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

lol, I give you a 1.5/10 for your trolling effort.

from that video, it almost looks like the angle of the swingarm, and the angle of the rest of the chassis are different when leaning, Im sure that much of that could be put down to tyre side wall distortion, but surely the square shape puts unusual forces on the swingarm/swingarm bearings? that cant be healthy when added to the natural flex in a chassis?

Im sure its fine for a properly set up drag bike though.

[kiwifruit]

Adventure bike with car tyre:

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[JimO]

bike tyres were pretty much square in the 70s

[jrandom]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

You sir are a poet of our modern age.

[jrandom]

bike tyres were pretty much square in the 70s

...

You were.

[Motu]

bike tyres were pretty much square in the 70s

And designed for sidewall flex. I use Dunlop K70's for my gravel road tyres, the square profile gets them down through the gravel to the hard pack for traction. I run the correct pressures for the tyres,which are considered very low pressures by todays standards, but that allows for sidewall flex, and the tyres put down a huge footprint on sealed roads.

I have no problem with bikes using car tyres, it obviously works in that application. The only people saying it's a stupid idea are those who have never ridden a bike on car tyres - I love things that work flying in the face of theory.

[Jantar]

bike tyres were pretty much square in the 70s

Ummm. No. Only trail type tyres. Good road tyres were rounded.

[bogan]

Not only car tyres, but car rims too!

http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php/topic/69463-car-rim-conversion/page__fromsearch__1

Bonus points for putting an MC tyre back on it afterwards, not sure the profile is still the same though...

[BigAl]

I'd like to see a car tyre on the front, now that would be interesting :yes:

[Motu]

Been done plenty of times before - after WWII (and probably WWI and the Great Depression too ) motorcycle tyres were hard to get (car tyres were too) and car tyres were often fitted to motorcycles. They were better riders in those days off course, so there were no problems doing it.

[actungbaby]

Dam i agree maybe a smoke or 2 that stress going kill ya
I fited a trails tire they said it was onto my xl600 was on special had from memory like knobly but with square blocks and flait dam never seen tire like was crap. bit use wobble and slid so easy just doing 30 kph if you turned sharply more at slower seed .. was fun though in slidy way
if you want a real trill fit snow car tires to you bike try ride in the rain yawwwwwwwwwwww...



deep breath mate..............and may i suggest a bottle of evening primrose oil caps fella
met a guy at the puhoi one day ridin a rocket 3 who had done the same............when asked how the steering geometry must be affected by the tyre tipping like in the video he replied he only runs about twenty something pounds in it so the sidewall collapses rather than tips as in the vid,reckons he saves a couple hundy on a tyre...........i reckon hes nuts...........sidewalls aren't designed to collapse

[actungbaby]

what about those whell barrow tires like got as spare on my mx 5 car there real nasty spin up at drop of hat
with like 60 psi fit that bad boy to vfr 750 rear. mind you look what raced on in the 50,s and 60s like pushbike tires in coparsion to today and that was on works bikes


Not only car tyres, but car rims too!

http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php/topic/69463-car-rim-conversion/page__fromsearch__1

Bonus points for putting an MC tyre back on it afterwards, not sure the profile is still the same though...

[actungbaby]

dam make the steering real light not ?? your have arms like pop eye
i think bring out range of ash trays for motorbikes no .. not near the tank of course ,
and you whoudint have to worry about flys on your visor just ash in you air vents carbys
hair hehe


I'd like to see a car tyre on the front, now that would be interesting :yes:

[actungbaby]

dont temp me hmmm vfr car rim car tire i got mx5 with 185s yeah 4 bolt rims quite uncomon these days apartly
most have 5 stud , well cool to have no ideas as long ride to what tire can do esp if you mainly going around town.
i booked marked the site ;-) mind you my car got 14 inch rims oh dear said the vfr 750 first gen complained about 16 inch front . i might have slightly lower gearing


Not only car tyres, but car rims too!

http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php/topic/69463-car-rim-conversion/page__fromsearch__1

Bonus points for putting an MC tyre back on it afterwards, not sure the profile is still the same though...

[Fast Eddie]

haha.. Waiting for the motoGP boys to run car tyres..

[Hitcher]

Next time you see a Boss Hoss, walk over and check out the profile on the rear wheel.

[unstuck]

:shit::confused: :drinkup::doobey::blink:

[SVboy]

bike tyres were pretty much square in the 70s

Nope-always been round!!

[Sable]

Look at that awesomely huuuge contact patch. Not.

[JimO]

Nope-always been round!!

comedian he is, the pirelli and avon tyres i had on my Z1r were no where near as round a profile as modern tyres

[haydes55]

Check out what the road raing sidecars run, no leaning so they all usually run square tires. Seen a few with small car tires on them but alot look like a special tire for sidecars? never really took too much interest in the sidecar tires whenever I was perving

[Brian d marge]

Been done plenty of times before - after WWII (and probably WWI and the Great Depression too ) motorcycle tyres were hard to get (car tyres were too) and car tyres were often fitted to motorcycles. They were better riders in those days off course, so there were no problems doing it.

It was a common chopper mod back in the day ,trying to get 15 inch low, and wide look to you chop

Stephen

[Crasherfromwayback]

comedian he is, the pirelli and avon tyres i had on my Z1r were no where near as round a profile as modern tyres

Actually they were every bit if not more rounded than modern tyres.

[pritch]

I seem to remember a reasonably well known motorcycling identity running a car tyre on his bike. It was a long time ago and money was scarcer then than now.

Just recently I was looking at the almost square section rear tyre on a Royal Enfield and wondering how it could possibly work. The scary thing is that I used to ride on tyres like that and it didn't bother me at all.

Love that modern rubber.

[miloking]

Shows how far away in fairyland all the snooty ohlins crowd and these sportbike tossers are wanking on about how such and such a tyre is so much better compared to such and such another $450 fucken dollar bullshit Z10 or pilot 5 or diablo20 or some other jerk-off poser model, with two clicks here and half a clack there with special oil there and revalved this and readjusted that what a fucking load of crap, fucking rip-off motorcycle tyre industry, foul fuckers, laughing as tyres worth fucken 75 bucks going for $385, thanks suckers, and all accompanied with the usual tiresome drivel "the only thing between you and the road are your tyres, always spend the most amount of money possible on the most obscenely overpriced expensive hyped unnecessary fucken shit any cunt could possibly rook you with and everything will be sugar-sweet and lovely

Hmmm........