Car tyres on bikes!
Discussion
Relatively common in the US on big cruisers IME.
I'm intrigued as to how it handles and how its longevity. When a decent tyre is £200 and last 5000 miles then I can see why someone might go for a £50 tyre and double the life.
Feels like a lifetime ago that I owned a Bandit 1200. They're nearly 30 years old now
I'm intrigued as to how it handles and how its longevity. When a decent tyre is £200 and last 5000 miles then I can see why someone might go for a £50 tyre and double the life.
Feels like a lifetime ago that I owned a Bandit 1200. They're nearly 30 years old now
This was a thing among chopper types with hardtails and all that, probably 35-40 years ago.
With fairly wide tyres, low pressures and tall sidewalls, it was apparently much better than you might expect.
I assume that was with radial tyres but I couldn't prove that.
Personally, a decent bike on modern sport-touring tyres gives adequate tyre life IMHO.
40 years ago, I think tyres for a superbike were a bigger slice of the costs per mile than today?
You can get a reasonable rear bike tyre for not much over £100? weren't they well over £50 when beer was a pound a pint?
With fairly wide tyres, low pressures and tall sidewalls, it was apparently much better than you might expect.
I assume that was with radial tyres but I couldn't prove that.
Personally, a decent bike on modern sport-touring tyres gives adequate tyre life IMHO.
40 years ago, I think tyres for a superbike were a bigger slice of the costs per mile than today?
You can get a reasonable rear bike tyre for not much over £100? weren't they well over £50 when beer was a pound a pint?
Darksiding like this used to be fairly common in the US on bigger cruisers up until about 15 years ago, less so now but still happens. Not really seen it a huge amount over here due to the lack of stupidly long straight roads that are common for US interstates.
Years ago I rode a 97 roadking with a conventional car tyre on the rear (was a loaner bike for 2-3 days whilst mine had some engine work done) with lower tyre pressures it rides ... okay ... probably fine for someone who does miles and miles of motorway riding. Lower tyre pressure negated some of the squared off feeling but its not something I would chose to do myself.
Years ago I rode a 97 roadking with a conventional car tyre on the rear (was a loaner bike for 2-3 days whilst mine had some engine work done) with lower tyre pressures it rides ... okay ... probably fine for someone who does miles and miles of motorway riding. Lower tyre pressure negated some of the squared off feeling but its not something I would chose to do myself.
hiccy18 said:
I think Fortnine did a video on "darkside" tyres ( or tires, I guess). Apparently didn't handle as badly as you'd expect, but I think I'll keep shelling out for the real thing.
I just come on here to say same thingAs already said it's fairly common on big cruiser's, especially in states
Not so sure about running it on an arse bandit though
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