Car tire on my Road King

I didn't read every post, but I didn't see anyone mention using a R/F (run flat) type tire. That is what most of the wing guys are running. I used a Dunlop 175-16 3D wintersport tire on my 08 GW. A car tire makes a GW civilized. I took mine to the Dragon last year and I remember having to slow down for a lot of other bikes. Probably won't put one on my 09 RG even though I suspect wet driving and rear braking would be better.

Wintersport tire is available at Discount Tire by special order. Tried several 195 tires and the 175 tire handled way better. You can go to gl1800riders.com / darksiders forum to read forever about this.

Mike
 
You know you will hear negativity from the those that have never used car tires but consider themselves experts.Years ago when doing burnouts almost everytime the clutch was dropped,used biased tread car tires.Back then people were not so giddy about using them.Once the tires are gone on my bikes it's back to the radial car tires.
 
Folks,

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Just because you THINK it will not work, or you THINK it will have a smaller contact patch, or you THINK it will cause an accident for the sole fact of being a car tire, just THINKING doesn't make it so.

This is why I said in the beginning, and I still stress it now - "TRIED IT"
I didn't post anything until I TRIED IT. While you naysayers are debating why it cannot work, those of us that crossed over are enjoying the hell out of it, simple as that. TRIED IT.

Some folks like to stay in their comfort bubble and not experiment or do things that may disrupt that comfort. That's fine. Keep your motorcycle tires on, no big deal, nothing wrong with that. This information is posted for another group of riders, people that like to experiment, do things a little out of the ordinary and find out for themselves whether something works or not. And judging by the interest in this thread, there are a lot of these folks here.

As for me, it works. By now, I had a chance to try my car tire in dry pavement, in the wet, in the twisties, wet turns, turns with gravel, 80 MPH sustained speeds in the interstate, one up, two up, and I can't think of any situation that would make me go back to a motorcycle tire. This thing is so comfortable in all these situations, that the only regret I have is that I didn't do it sooner.






I hope I didn't sound too harsh, my apologies if I did.


Regards,
 
I have to agree tires are the life blood of a motorcycle any blowout on a tire would be deadly and once more your insurance company can say anything they want but when it comes to court they can say well it was a non motorcycle tire we are not liable to pay anything i would rather pay the extra money and get a tire that is designed for your bike
 
You obviously have never run car tires to base your opinion on making your opinion worthless.I, like a lot of bros used to run them all the time back when money was tight.No one could have run their machines faster or cornered harder than we did then running biased tires and never once had the slightest problem with sidewall lost traction.All our bikes had a lot of metal turned in showers of sparks and never once lost lateral traction.Bottom line is run what your comfortable with,your the one paying the hard earned dollar for your toy.
 
When Yamaha fit one on the R1 and Rossi runs a race version in MotoGP, I'd be convinced. Until that point, I'll trust the millions spend by tyre corporations for bike specific tyres, not some back yard, bar room expert.

Good luck!
 
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