Nice camera work

this one came up after yours...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/BXasxVxsza8

nice tire, responded well

WOW!  Sure is flat down in that part of the country!

OK, I'm going to try to post again from my new laptop, just in case the problem last time was my old computer. This is the only site I was having a problem with but you never know.

I'll start with JOG & then answer OFs' question from another thread.

If you watch the video closely you will see white drag marks appear on the concrete on several of the turns I make, even scooting the rear end on one right hander. I've never had a problem because I usually don't corner like that pulling the trailer. It's the same trailer I pulled with a Savage for 8 years with no issues.

For Oldfeller, the tire on there is a Vredestein Comtrac 175/75R16 made in Holland that cost me $158 delivered. The oem Brigdestone was down to the wear bars at 6250 miles when it picked up a nail. The current tire now has over 15k on it now & looks like this.



Considering I have put +21k on this bike in less than 3 years & should get at least another 15k out of it, & oem tires are about the same $$$, I think it's a bargain. The fact that it outhandles the oem in every way is just a big + in my book.

Preview worked, now I'll see if it posts.

 
I have never been disappointed in the curve handling ability of the car tires I have used.  I realize I use a third of the tire on the left side when going left, a third to half in the center when going straight and a third on the right when going right.   Modern radial car tires have a rounded enough profile to make these transitions seamlessly as you roll from one side to another.

Still, the actual amount of rubber in the contact patch with the road is LARGER than it is on a bike tire because the car tire side wall flexes to allow the tread to lay a bigger contact patch flat on the road better than a hard sided bike tire can ever do.  The car tire contact patch size is always about twice what the bike tire can give you in any given angle of attack, even in the way heeled over attack angles you think of as Dragon Riding.  

Car tire wet grip (even in the driving rain) has always been good.   MUCH much better than some harder bike tires as a matter of fact.

High speed running is the only issue that I have ever had on my old Nankang car tire, and that was a function of rear tire alignment causing a high speed feedback with the front end which apparently can occur with bike tires as well.  

My current Nexen tire does not have this issue -- Nexen also grips better than the Nankang ever did, I can't get the rear brakes to engage strong enough to get the tire to break free in braking (which was easier to do with the Nankang as it would break free and squall like a car tire squalls if you mashed it good).

Indeed, by slicing away the excess rubber tubeless flap material on the Nexen you can get the mounting pressures down closer to "normal motorcycle mounting" types of air pressures, but still bead popping pressure is still high enough at nearly 60 psi to be up in "the bead breakage danger range" and as such car tires cannot be recommended as safe to be put on a Savage rear rim.  

And this is WITH using all the speciality tricks like using grease on the stubborn sections of bead.

        ..... if it wasn't for the mounting dangers involved more car tires would likely get used on bikes.  But it is what it is and only a few souls will take the risks to put one on.

You want to see a car tire,look at some of the bikes that used to come out of BBW(Borgett Bike Works)in Pheonix.He used to use Viper tires before you could buy 200,250,360,400 tires.

At 1:50 in you got sideways. At that point I stopped watching the video. If somewhere after that point you mentioned that it was a V-Star, my mistake. I also don't care if you think I know nothing about distinguishing the make/model of your bike by only being able to see the bottom half of the very back of it. If you really expect me to believe you can tell what any bike is going down the road by the view in that video, I'm going to laugh in your face.

Cavi Mike wrote on 10/14/12 at 14:28:17:

You couldn't tell by looking at the bike it wasn't a LS650/S40?  Gee, the exhaust pipe, on the RIGHT SIDE, should have been a clue.  Then again, maybe not...........