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Refugee
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
Moto: Pimped 2005 SV650
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I'd guess that there's no way an insurance adjuster would approve a claim for a bike modified this way. That's just stupid.
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Trip's Assistant
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Location: Imported from Detroit
Moto: 2009 HD Street Classic
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First off... its a car tire not a bike tire. Proper part for the proper job. No fuckin way I'd put that shit on my bike. Just look at the contact in lean.
Secondly... the tip of my yamaha guy is a fuckin tool. Obviously for tippin over his bike. Obviously for putting a car tire on it. Less obvious... for talking about "the infamous clutch rattle". Guess what fuckface. That isnt it. You're a fuckin tool. |
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Tony's Crack Pusher
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Topsfield MA
Moto: 2003 Aprilia Tuono (street/track days), 2006 SV650 (race)
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It's pretty wild... Those that haven't tried this are all up in fucking arms about it, saying it's dangerous, handles shitty, blah blah blah, you're gonna get killed.
Those that HAVE tried this, friggin swear by it... and many of those people are generally riders who ride WAYYY more fucking miles a year than any of us here do and have been riding for longer than some of us have been alive. It just further goes to prove, that in theory, theory = practice.... but in practice, it's not. Does that mean I'm gonna go try it? No, because I don't ride a cruiser/tourer and I like my bikes to handle as they're designed. I don't just cruise around. But for the folks that just cruise around, I can see this working for them, since it obviously DOES work for them.
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token jewboy
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: CBR 900, KLR ugly ass duckling, Gas Man
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I totally think the tip over guy is an idjiot. I just cant imagine the amount of force that it would take to push the bike into a turn off a flat tire like that, and I was surprised at how much that other guy was able to lean on the tire.
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too much time on my hands
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: the northern district of god damn
Moto: 01 ZX6R, looking for more now.
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frankly, I dont give a FUCK what people who log a million straight line or interstate miles a year say, they're the ones that are wrong. yes you CAN get a lot more miles out of that car tire, but no it IS NOT safer/better. totally unacceptable risk to me and I'm not gonna put myself or anyone else, let alone my favorite means of transit at risk by doing this.
the way I ride, I'd be wearing out the SIDEWALLS of that car tire, and it'd blow out in a few weeks easily. |
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Tony's Crack Pusher
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Topsfield MA
Moto: 2003 Aprilia Tuono (street/track days), 2006 SV650 (race)
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Sure ya would.... Except the sidewall never touches the road.
Unless of course you can get these kinds of lean angles. ![]()
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Chaotic Neutral
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Cherry Hill NJ
Moto: GV1200 Madura, Hawk gt
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what they wont tell you is his throttle was stuck when that pic was taken
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Custom User Title
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Location: Central NY
Moto: 2003 SV650S
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that's waaaaaaaaaaaay to small of a contact patch in corners for me.
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WERA White Plate
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Austin, TX
Moto: '01 Aprilia Falco
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Didn't even make it all the way through the first video, but did anyone else think that goldwing sounded suspiciously like the tank from Halo?
I rode behind a guy once who swears by this. He rode a Valkyrie, and said it handled like crap to begin with, so he didn't really notice a difference. It was a bit freaky to watch. |
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Elitist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Moto: Gix 750
Posts: 11,351
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Hope these guys don't ride in a heavy downpour.
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