2013 Car tire debate

[bruce59]

Originally Posted by Mike7202

Bruce, do you keep a spare wheel with a tire mounted to it so you can just swap em out and then change the other tire at your leisure?

At that time it would have been handy, lol.
With a new baby I put less miles on now ... and the police have become more vigilant so I am a bit better behaved.

Also, a dyno tune that lessened the degree of deceleration also contributed to better tire life. Personally I prefer the heavier decel for my riding style... but it does help eat up the rubber.

[midnightsun]

This will be my next car tire, you have all convinced me to order next week

Toyo*Proxes R888

[BIGDADDY1966]

Sweet looking tire midnight!! Looks like it has a soft rounded sidewall, I like it!!

[wyomingwarrior]

I rode a CT for almost 2 summers. NO complaints! Ya'll are like mainstream media... this is one of those things that sounds SOOO easy to bash and throw under the bus... but in reality most all of you refuse to even acknowledge any of the tens of thousands of riders who have riden on them for years without issues.

All motorcycle accidents I've seen, happen so quickly there is no time to zig-zag around the car. It's not like Hollywood when you can zig-zag around a car in .5 seconds. Do you realize that to zig zag around a car you have to spot the hazard, confirm it has become a hazard and then react to the hazard. All the accidents I've seen that gives them just tens of feet to move horizontally 10 + feet!! Most accidents I've seen/heard testimony, the riders have enough time to hit the brakes and lean it down. At least with a CT there's WAY more friction on the ground to help slow the bike down before you lay down.

I rode with a CT and I ride with a 280 now. NO JOKE... this 280 scared me more in the twisties than my CT. This 280 made the bike feel like it was drifting through the turn. And I don't even have any rake. The CT in a turn felt smooth (not as smooth as a MT obviously) but there was not that "transition" phase/feeling.

How come there aren't "riding with no helmet" bashing threads, or I raked my bike out and have a 280 rear and no longer have the ability to "zig-zag" bashing threads??? OR even a "ride with a jockey/suicide shift" bashing thread?

[wyomingwarrior]

I should probably include zig zagging around a board in the road. I've had to avoid road kill and debre with the CT and with hazards that small, we all know it doesn't take much lean to avoid them. So little lean in fact, that there wasn't ever a risk of the tire washing out.

Edit: I still think everyone who is AGAINST the CT are still thinking we're saying it's JUST AS good in the twisties as a MT. I will hands down say it's not and will never be. I think most all the CT guys have one thing in common. We ride A LOT of long flat straight miles.

[jamesd]

Originally Posted by LeaderDuece

If I keep going through a tire a year, I may have to seriously consider it.

You only go through 1 per year!!!! Holy crap... I was averaging three sets before I got rid of the Warrior. Must have been all the trips to The Gap. I would have been thrilled with one set per year.

[arizonawarrior]

I wonder how many rear tires are worn prematurely by poor rear wheel alignment? Maybe not too many, dunno.

[jamesd]

I heard Harley was gonna start putting them on at the factory. Most Hardley riders only go to bike night and back home for a total of about 2000 miles per lifetime at the speed of sludge. Most of them are drunk anyway.. LOL

[active1951]

Originally Posted by arizonawarrior

I wonder how many rear tires are worn prematurely by poor rear wheel alignment? Maybe not too many, dunno.

If poor alignment was cause of rear tire wear, would the wear be more on one side?
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[californiacruiser]

I tend to use the sidewalls of my MC tire, only about 1/4" chicken strips on each side. There will NEVER be a CT on my bike. I understand the economics, but if you ride twisty roads, I do not understand why you would ever do it. Yes, you MIGHT get away with it. Then again, you may not.