Cheap new tyres

Today I took delivery of some new tyres for my CD90.

2 tyres, with tubes, delivered to my door for $66.

They're advertising on page 138 of the current Just Bikes mag. They
also do a few dirt-bike tyres, chains, and a couple of road tyre sizes
up to 140/70-17. The brand of the ones I've got is "Fei Chi", and
they're the old-fashioned "rib" pattern.[1]

It'll be a few months before I have the bike ready for rego, but I'm
sure they'll be a bit grippier than the 30+ year old rubber that it
currently has fitted.


BTH
[1] C'mon then Clem, give us a franger joke.

 

Frig. I paid a lot more than that for my last pair of bicycle tyres.

Theo

 

That's about what I paid for the last pair of tyres for the Z50.

Oh, the pair I got were Bridgestones, with a really nice modern
"road-race" pattern, sent my mail from UK.

Of course, to be fair, I have already worn one of them out... damned
soft compound race tyres!

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Just don't use them in the rain. I owe my first "off" on my Honda
CB200 in 1986 to a Cheng Shin bar tread front tyre and a wet road.
Put Pirelli Mandrakes front and rear on it and never had another
problem wet or dry.

 

CD90? show us a pic then? I've got one of those, and an S too.

 

I'm still gathering parts together, I haven't even put a spanner on it
yet:

http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/236/cd90a.jpg

Is that you, Darren B? ;-)


BTH

 

Yeah, but you lads paid extra for new-fangled features like "grip" and
"roadholding". These tyres would be at home in the Grand Old Days of
motorcycling, where "longevity" was the best you could hope for! ;-)


BTH

 

Lads?

Theo

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:48:59 -0700

I think you should leave the franger jokes to Clem.


Zebee

 

He's too slow these days. I have to make my own fun.


BTH

 

Lads (n): What men become once you put more than 5 of them together in
a group.


BTH

 

I don't think Aeek qualifies.

Theo

 

O.k. here is a couple of pics of mine, the camera has been kind to them and
made the paint look shinier than it actually is.
The bars on the CD are off a CL90 that was the doner of engine, wheels and
seat to the "S" ,the CD also donated it's exhaust to the S too.
I still have the CL's frame and forks.
I have the original CD's bars but it did not have it's throttle cable slider
or cable stop, so I just fitted the CL bars to it to get it going.
If anybody out there has an undamaged set of S90 bars I would be interested.
Sorry about the photo quality as the the camera battery went flat after the
second shot, if you want some more, let me know.
FOG.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e33/ogslotu/CD90.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e33/ogslotu/S90.jpg

 

They're certainly in much better condition at present than either my
CD90 or Lemmiwinks' S90!

I'm not in a hurry, I just need to have my CD90/125 ready for
Wintersun next year. ;-)


BTH

 

OK, I'll concede that.

Theo

 

Oh no, please tell me you're not doing to your S90 what Dr
Blacksliminator did to his CX500?!


BTH

 

http://tinyurl.com/29fd7x


BTH

 

Errk; am I the only one here feeling like he's watching old-people flirting?
People showing eachother photos of their Honda 90s in public is just sorta'
wrong. I understand that it goes on but it just should be kept in private
that's all!

 

I'm not reading this thread.

 

Yep, funnily enough, Clem, I noticed you weren't reading this thread
<snigger>

betty