DO NOT PUT A CAR TIRE ON A BIKE RIM. IT IS TOO DANGEROUS.
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barry68v10 PUT A TA 155/80r15 ON THE BACK OF HIS BIKE, DROVE IT A COUPLE OF MILES TO A SERVICE STATION AND BLEW IT UP (that's exploded it for you who haven't heard yet) AT 175 PSI TRYING TO GET THE BEAD TO SEAT. HE HAD SPRAYED TRUCK BED LINER ON HIS SPOKES TO SEAL THEM AND GOT SOME ON THE BEAD AREA.
HE DID DAMAGE TO HIS HEARING AND SHREDDED HIS SEAT BAGS.
DO NOT TRY THIS MOD.
IT IS FORMALLY UNAPPROVED FOR LIST MEMBERS TO DO.
I FORMALLY RECANT THIS MOD AS IT IS TOO DANGEROUS TO YOU AND YOUR EARS AND YOUR HANDS AND YOUR EYES (AND TO YOUR SEAT BAGS).
(signed)
Oldfeller
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joeh100, some of us do wear our IRCs all the way around the edges even when running a flat bottomed car tire on the back end.
this is the back tire worn round nice & tight
this is the front tire worn round nice and tight
Bill67, you are just guessin' about speed of manoever based on what you have read. Fact is that the front tire controls rate of lean, not the back tire. The front tire is always the orchestra leader.
Say you want to take a hard right hand 90 degree turn. Rider shifts his mass and very slightly counter-steers the front tire. A bike back tire responds by rolling the whole bike over its round circumference which takes XX time to respond. A car tire responds by simply shifting the contact patch from the center to position to the right position (flexing the right sidewall slightly). The front tire is still calling the tune, but it gets more response out of less input when working with the car tire as the whole bike doesn't have to rotate around near as much.
Actually, the pair of round bike tires is quite a bit slower to respond as it has to rotate the entire mass of the bike to accomplish its desired change. Car tires are quicker to respond than bike tires and take less lean to get the same amount of directional change. My bike is more nimble now than it was with IRCs mounted on it.
Now, since you get more turn for your degree of rotation and your bike sits taller on the car tire, what does it take to drag a peg? Answer is turn speeds and sideways accelerations you can't get on IRC tires or other normal bike tires under any circumstances.
And it also explains why in the middle of a siren killer right hand turn that spits other riders into the left side embankment I can do a quick emergency stop and pull off the right hand side of the road. I had greater braking patch available and more turn radius left in reserve so I could still do additional things when another stock biker was totally out of stuff to do. Plus, I knew I was nowhere near the limit and had lots of stuff left. I didn't even squall the rear tire (I get a clear audible feedback that the edge of danger has arrived!).
But then again, you will never try it yourself, so you will never believe it anyway.
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