Car tyres on motorcycles?

[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........