Check out this guys chicken strips!

[Daisy]

If he's towing a trailer he may not be going fast enough around any corner to lean.

Seriously if you're going to pannier to the max and put a towbar on a bike that already corners like a fat-arsed one-eyed whale on Quaaludes AND tow a camper trailer wtf would you ride at all?

Like if you're a grey nomad and you're going to tour this wide brown land towing a tent in your dotage then wouldn't you just buy a car...or maybe just use the one you already own? Really if you want to have a mid-life crisis and feel the wind in your (thinning) hair one last time before you clock out and into a nursing home then buy a fooking convertible...hang on, can the hair comment he'd be wearing a helmet. It can't be wind in his face, that screen came off a F-111.

I don't understand at all...and I was a Ulysses member (since lapsed).

Mick

I wondered that myself for a while ... until I started doing seriously big miles. I keep finding things about my bikes that are unsuitable so I looked at what it needs to do and what is available that does it all. The answer is a GoldWing. I'm not sure I'm old enough or grey enough to come to terms with that yet.

Here in Tassie I get good use out of a tyre but every time I come to the north island I end up with a dirty great flat spot up the middle of the rear and the right side scrubbed off the front. I hate throwing out 2 thirds of a tyre.

[Ratmick]

A mate of mine has a new Goldwing and he has a car tyre on the back. I've ridden it and it corners a bit weird but not as bad as you might think.

Wouldn't a major issue be that you are putting stress on a car tyre in a direction it's not really designed to take stress from? The sidewalls of a car tyre are pretty thin as the manufacturers don't really expect you to ride around on them AND I'd be surprised if the steel belts went very far up them either.

Just seems an odd thing to do with a $25-30k bike that weighs a fair bit.

Some interesting reading: http://www.goldwingfacts.com/forums/forum4/9239-1.html

Mick

[Daisy]

http://lifeisaroad.com/stories/2006/02/ ... dWing.html

If you have a look at the comparison photo (2nd pic down) its pretty obvious why they do it. You guys are all thinking from a sportsbike perspective. Try thinking about a couple of runs from Adelaide to Perth and back.

[funky]

Hey seiko and you mick "GET FARKED"

[dub]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaIj1Xrm ... re=related

This shows how the tyre acts on the road, there seems to be plenty of vids like this around.

I know one of the sidecar guys here has one on the back of his CB1300 outfit.

[swearbear9r]

thats some funny shit . cant say i would EVER do that............

[Ratmick]

http://lifeisaroad.com/stories/2006/02/10/darkWingdarksideGoldWingcarTireOnAGoldWing.html

If you have a look at the comparison photo (2nd pic down) its pretty obvious why they do it. You guys are all thinking from a sportsbike perspective. Try thinking about a couple of runs from Adelaide to Perth and back.

That was pretty good Daisy thanks. Guy seems a bit of a tool, but that's ok. FWIW I think he blew his credibility when he said motorcycle tyres are like that because they want to make a buck:

afterall, those engineers chose this design for a reason, yes? Well, yes. Price. Thanks.

O...k.

That and this:

After the install, Dean took her for a ride. "No major difference in handling," was his comment

....that was because his mate's tyre was the very far side of farked and a large length of Aggie Pipe taped together would have given him the same ride.

BTW that is some seriously butt-ugly bike, may as well put a car tyre on it. it's not going to lean much without a lot of plastiweld .

When I get that far gone I'm going to buy a trike.

BTW, the other clip led me to wonder what happens when the road is really wet and they are cornering on the edge of a tyre that has eff-all tread or rigidity built into it in the direction they are using it.

Mick