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<blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 519307" data-attributes="member: 3828"><p>Wait a minit here! It's not April 1st, so what the hell is going on?</p><p></p><p>Are you actually serious about using a car tire on a motorcycle? If you had a sidecar, training wheels or only ride in a straight line, I'd say go for it. But the design goals behind auto tires and motorcycles are exactly opposite to each other. What the wheels do during cornering, and the resulting loads exerted on the tires, are completely different.</p><p></p><p>When you lean your bike into a corner any greater than ~ 10 degrees (which is tiny) with a car tire on the back you will be lifting the outside of tread block off the pavement, riding only on the inner corner of the tread. I guess it will scrub down soon or later, and become more round in profile, but the car tire's carcass is not designed for the wheel to tilt against the road. In fact, in sport applications, people add camber to the wheels so that the wheel stays as close to perpendicular to the road during corning, as possible.</p><p></p><p>But if you live in a place where you always go straight...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred W, post: 519307, member: 3828"] Wait a minit here! It's not April 1st, so what the hell is going on? Are you actually serious about using a car tire on a motorcycle? If you had a sidecar, training wheels or only ride in a straight line, I'd say go for it. But the design goals behind auto tires and motorcycles are exactly opposite to each other. What the wheels do during cornering, and the resulting loads exerted on the tires, are completely different. When you lean your bike into a corner any greater than ~ 10 degrees (which is tiny) with a car tire on the back you will be lifting the outside of tread block off the pavement, riding only on the inner corner of the tread. I guess it will scrub down soon or later, and become more round in profile, but the car tire's carcass is not designed for the wheel to tilt against the road. In fact, in sport applications, people add camber to the wheels so that the wheel stays as close to perpendicular to the road during corning, as possible. But if you live in a place where you always go straight... [/QUOTE]
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