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Tire goodrich 155/80-15
12/03/08 at 04:03:10 Alert Board Moderator about this Post! Quote
It's posible ! I just put a 155/80-15 GOODRICH RADIAL TA on the back of my savage. No mods nessary...It seated at 76 psi with half and half dishwashing soap, water. I did bring it up to 50 psi to day befor and left it sit overnight to stretch a little. If it were any bigger it would catch the bolt heads holding the crome things on the side of the fender. There is about a half inch clearence on the belt side and three fourths on the high side, there is almost an inch to the middle of the swing arm. The only delima is "what about one side being raised white letter and the other side black letters?"
Though ya'll might use this information.
The mitchlin 145r-15 I replaced needed over a 100 psi (guage only goes to 100) to seat and latter developed a BUBBLE in the side wall.
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Re: Tire goodrich 155/80-15
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Gasp! Oh my goodness!
That's a car tire! On the back of a motorcycle no less!
Don't you know that isn't safe, that you will slide over on that thing just as soon as you try to go around a corner?
Grin Grin Grin
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Give us a ride report, oh you young fledgling Darksider you. You must tell the story of "getting your hindbrain used to it" and the story of what a full lock emergency sliding stop sounds like.
Leaving your pressure jacked up over 35 psi can do some internal damage to a tire if it is left that way for very long. 50 lbs it certainly too much to leave that way for very long.
Don't forget to write down the date and your odometer mileage on the inside of your fender with a sharpie pen so you can eventually report how long and how many miles you got.
And for the rest of you, you who are going to put yet another expensive bike tire on the back of your Savage this summer, I have a special message for you from the founding father of the Darkside Boys
yeah, ol' dangerous Freddy's singing to you again ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMenB9Ywh2Q&feature=PlayList&p=4BF32CB8D7FA620...