Tyre chains on sportbikes?

[OV Lander]

Reckon you'd want more than 5 in a set - the gaps between the units is too great allowing there to be periods of rubber/ground contact with no teeth biting into the ground.

Could you imagine a big sports bike grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP, grip, NO GRIP...?... ....did you say you were going to video it? Go on...plz!

Reckon you'd be better off with a decent length of hemp rope and wrap it round the wheel/tyre like they used to do when scramble racing and hill climbing first started... ....a damn site cheap than 110 Euro, and I'd say a heap more effective too.

[idleidolidyll]

"ok I have a sportbike.. can I put tyre chains on it to climb grassy hills ?"

if i have a harley and put slicks on it, will it become a sports bike?

[AllanB]

Caution The snow claw should only be driven at slow speeds. Consider that the front wheel can suddenly veer out on ice or snow.

ah .............. and well.................ah.............OK


Question - where do you put your glider on the bike, or is someone else carting it?

Personally if you purchase a sport bike (or any narrow purpose bike) there's a point where you have to accept its limitations

Me - I'd not have a bar of it & I'd be looking for a cheap dirter to fat up and down the hills when gliding. I see the potential for damage to rim, guards (if on) radiator if the front breaks and your arse when the rear on shoots through the subframe with a bit of overzealous throttle (cause lets face it a 10,000 rpm rooster tail of dirt and grass would be way cool

What you need is one of those hillclimb tyres.

[awayatc]

Bit of NO8 Gauge wire, bent with the fencing plyers to fit the holes in plates.

There ya go , A cheap alternative...any Kiwi Bloke could do it!

No 8 wire?....better pack a good puncture repair kit or 2....

better of with something like this......

[CookMySock]

Reckon you'd want more than 5 in a set [....]
length of hemp rope and wrap it round the wheel/tyre

hrm thats interesting. Simple too.

if i have a harley and put slicks on it, will it become a sports bike?

re-read. I don't want to change its' role. I just want a little slow-speed traction on gentle grassy slopes, especially with thousand-footers. The small hills it will be quicker to just walk them than put the grips on.

where do you put your glider on the bike, or is someone else carting it?

The glider is just a largish conventional backpack, carried in any convenient fashion on your back or your bikes packrack.

Personally if you purchase a sport bike (or any narrow purpose bike) there's a point where you have to accept its limitations

Each to their own. I do not accept limitations of any type.

Me - I'd not have a bar of it & I'd be looking for a cheap dirter to fat up and down the hills when gliding.

Each to their own, but crossing the north island coast to coast looking for wind-ward sites is going to suck really bad on a "cheap dirter".

I see the potential for damage to rim, guards (if on) radiator if the front breaks and your arse when the rear on shoots through the subframe with a bit of overzealous throttle

Yep. Caution is required. But we are sportbike riders and paraglider pilots - it is perfectly clear to us when we should be cautious and when to give it the gas.



DB

[NordieBoy]

if i have a harley and put slicks on it, will it become a sports bike?

Yes, of course it does...

[marks]

So...

If you ride your bike to the top of a hill and paraglide back down don't you have to walk all the way back up to get your bike - if so isn't that the same difference as walking up in the first place?

Am I missing something here?

[CookMySock]

Am I missing something here?

Yes. Read the thread.

Paragliders can fly around and land back where they took off from.


DB

[cooneyr]

Forgot about the rope thing, it would be a really good idea and wouldnt take that long to put on. From what I understand it is the origin of tyre chains as we know it. There are a few pics around of fullers back in the early part of the 20th century driving around with rope wound around the tyre and rim to get through some "road".

Hope you went to boy scouts and know how to tie a knot

Cheers R

[Oscar]

ok I have a sportbike.. can I put tyre chains on it to climb grassy hills ?

http://www.mv-motorrad.de/cosmoshop/...,,10107,,,.htm

Why do I want to do this ? Paragliding. I need to cross from coast to coast when the wind shifts to get to sites that are flyable - much more interesting on a sports bike, but reality sets in when I arrive at a site to find a nasty-steep 1,000ft hill to walk up.. eep! Solution - put chains on and drive up ? I don't want a full-out motox experience, I just want to have some forward motive power going up, and some anti-skid coming down!!


many thanks,
DB

Trade your bike on a V Strom 650.

[marks]

Yes. Read the thread. DB

D'oh......

[CookMySock]

Trade your bike on a V Strom 650.

not a solution for me. Roads + cornering + hanging off = me.

DB

[Oscar]

not a solution for me. Roads + cornering + hanging off = me.

DB

The V Strom is superior in all those departments to your current bike.

[slopster]

what about a motard be a bit better suited wouldn't it and just as quick on the road

[CookMySock]

The V Strom is superior in all those departments to your current bike.

I know this already - I have done 12,000km on it.. why do you think I do not know this ? I already know know what my next bike will be. I want a sportsbike. I don't want a vstrom.

what about a motard be a bit better suited wouldn't it and just as quick on the road

I'm sure it will be better. But I don't want a motard.

Maybe later I will change my preferences You know how it is.. white girl today, brown girl tomorrow..

DB