hotrod wrote on 06/12/19 at 04:46:31:They sure are more expensive. Car tires too. I remember the first good handling, road feel tire I put on a motorcycle, a Dunlap K81 TT100. I thought I was Mike Hailwood on my Honda CB350.
Naw, those aren't car tires, they are "universal thread" motorcycle tires a la BMW, from 1960's mebbe. Bias belted would be my guess, not radial at all. No steel belts either. Tread continues around to part way up the sidewall, as was typical back then.
What you see below is a $27 new rear car tire for a Savage, a real car tire on special sale from Walmart On Line. Walmart On Line is a mess, they screwed up and lost the tire twice and Walmart On Line refunded me twice and gave me a $25 gift card for all the trouble they had caused me. I'd go to the store and the folks at the local Wally would not know anything about the tire that had just showed up there shipped in special just for me.
Hah, nothing ever showed up TWICE and after 3 months of trying I called it quits and told Wally to keep their cheap tire and their special charge card, which special issued Mastercard was a complete pain in the butt to use and to credit to and then to credit to again when they had charged me twice for the tire that never came.
Then the tire actually showed up at the local Wally Tire Center about 4 months later and I was told to come by and pick it up at the Tire Center store manager's insistence. I told them twice that the order was all screwed up and had been cancelled twice (at a lot of effort on my part).
I am unsure if I ever got even charged for the tire again, and I really didn't really sweat it very much as Wally had made such a mess out of the first two cancelled orders ---- I no longer felt much responsibility to Walmart On Line when they can't keep their act together any better than that.
By then the Wally charge card had been closed out and cut up months earlier.
This is a Federal brand name steel belted radial car tire with nice rounded corners, I think it will ride the best of any of the car tires I have ever run on the back of the Savage as it fits the wheel well better and has nice rounder corners.
May be a year or two before I need to put it on as I am not putting as much road mileage on the Savage like I used to.