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Originally Posted by johnnyrod
Sarah everyone says it makes it turn slower, what have you found?
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No difference in turn in at all. We are running a 5.5" carbon rim for the dry with the 180 and a CBR 5" rim on the inters and wets.
Turns in great in fact when i rode Steve's SV after riding my supersport bike the SV had me in the kerbs mid corner as it turned so quickly!.
The bike does run a lengthened Ohlins and GSXR front end so quite different to a stock road bike geometry wise anyway.
If your running a 180 on the 5" CBR rim for the road then you will more than likely find it will turn as quick if not a little easier to to the profile of how the tyre sits on the 5" rim.
I ran a 190/55 on my supersport 600 bike for a while and it actually aided initial turn in as the rolling circumference of the tyre was taller than that on the 180/55 so it sat the bike up by a few more mm at the rear and gave a larger side footprint.