Car tyre on a bike

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

You're doing it wrong.

Amen!!

the handling of that must be.....interesting

Why not fit a steering wheel to it as well, so it turns better!

why not add another wheel and use 2 car tyres and call it a trike??

i always knew, always, that they didnt really leave england in search for new lands, we kicked them out for being bloody stupid.

Didn't they make a car tyre especially for a Mercedes that had tilting wheels? They had a rounded edge and would suit him perfectly.

I'm not going to kock him because he's obviously happy with it and its his bike his life and his experience.

C

Actually, all car tyres have rounded edges and look more like a rounded U rather than a sharp |_| and this is to account for tyre deformation when subjected to side forces (such as the ones that occur when hard rounding curves)...
Of course, mounting one would surely make a bike handle like cr*p as it has a more abrupt transition, whereas the motorbike tyre has a circled profile and thus there is no actual transition to talk of (except on badly worn motorbike tyres..)

Whilst I don't agree to mounting a car tyre on a bike, I do get his point about manufacturers not willing to make tyres that last on motorbikes, as there isn't a sufficiently large market to account for development costs. So they NEED to last a short amount of time, so that we keep buying more tyres than a car owner to compensate for the lack of large numbers...

Originally Posted by davepreston

that was defo worth the read

+1000
Be a shame to put off by the length of it, some good insite.
Totally inapplicable to the UK but still a good read.

An insight into how differently we use the roads can be seen in his description of tyre life, he said his last car tyres lasted 70,000 miles!! It's usually about 12 - 15k over here. American car tyres must be hard as nails. No wonder they're mentally unprepared for bike tyre life.

maybe its not the american cars that have terrible handling then.............its just the tyres they are using