Art Webb
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SuzukiSavage.com Rocks!
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columbus, Texas
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I'm over ever widening tires on bikes, It's gone beyond IMO the Savage is a 30HP 400lb bike with a wider rear tire, stock, than my old XS1100, which with 95 HP and a 600lb curb weight has no issues with traction I have gone to a bigger (taller) tire in back due to economics, but I always keep in mind that a fatter tire hydroplanes more easily, even on a bike I watch some of the biker build offs and see the guys fitting ever wider tires to bikes that are ill handling already due to being designed for 'coolness' rather than function and think 'really?, another fat tire, is that all you could think of? it's just copycatting at this point No offense to guys who like wide tires, the first time I saw a 190 on a chopper I thought it was cool, too, then I saw eleventy gazillion of the same and it got to be very ho hum
I've never forgotten the day when I watched a Beetle out corner a 911 with fat tires on a slick wet road
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