Wheel sizes

The Older Gentleman · Oct 4, 2006

B-12 said:

but a motorist
did an unexpected U-turn in front of him
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They all do that, sir :-(

The Older Gentleman · Oct 4, 2006

Mark Olson said:

http://www.visi.com/~olsonm/whoopsie
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That looks like it used to be a nice Wing.

durtdog · Oct 6, 2006

oh the voice of the pedant, huh?

B-12 said:

Oh. The voice of inexperience, huh?

I've tried it all. Spent a lot of money on tires and wheels.

The results were usually not at all what I'd expected. I need to change
my last mistaken selection to restore my Yamaha's handling to what it
was before I accepted Usenet concensus and bought a damned Bridgestone
BT-020 front tire. POS out-tracks on countersteering and shimmies and
speed weaves at freeway cruising speeds.

The factory test riders *know* what a motorcycle should feel like. They
try various tire and wheel combinations and make recommendations. OTOH,
testers do a lot of testing on the race track, and most street riders
will never set a wheel on a track.

Sometimes the bean counters at the factory will recommend a really
crappy tire that they can get for a nickel less per tire, and overrule
the experienced riders' recommendations.

But, generally, if you use the original equipment tires recommended for
your machine, you'll have a motorcycle that handles just like it did
from the showroom floor.

When you talk about"lower profile", what do you mean? Low profile car
tires have a different section height than the older E-section tires
which were as wide as the carcass was tall.

But a low profile motorcycle tire may have a very high crown for quick
handling. Or, it may have a lower crown and the rider has to struggle
to make the motorcycle turn.

One experienced rider I know roadraced for 20 years. He found a very
cheap Suzuki GS-450L with a 16-inch rear tire and tried to race it on
Willow Springs without changing to the 17 inch wheel that came stock on
other GS-450's.

The 16-incher had such a large contact patch it gripped the road too
hard and the GS-450L wobled fiercely in the highspeed turns 8 and 9,
unnerving him.

GS-450's were very popular at the time, riders could run them wide
open, flat out, at about 110 mph and humble riders of much larger
machines.

Don't ask how I know that...
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B-12 · Oct 6, 2006

durtdog said:

oh the voice of the pedant, huh?
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No, if I told you to go to the dictionary and look up the definition of
"pedant", and then proceeded to *debate* with you whether or not my
previous posts fit that definition, *then* I would be pedantic.

durtdog · Oct 8, 2006

*hope* springs eternal - how refreshing in a newsgroup

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