Re: Cracked sidewall - Page 18

 



So do what everyone else does and disconnect the sidestand switch.

And now ask the question: if a rear tyre is so broad and flat that a
bike can sit upright on it, how good will it be in corners?

Oh, did you deliberately set the follow-up to "poster" and your own
email addie instead of the ngs, or was it a mistake?


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R. LaCasse wrote:


Which is now.


Oh yes it does.


Which is relevant how?

 


|>>If a tire with a tube has a cracked sidewall, is it critical to replace
|>>it?
|>
|>Is there a question here ?

    I'm not sure either, the "question is vague" and ambiguous, but it's
what this whole thread was based on.......replace it as you see fit, a tube
is not going to save your ass at 100kph+.....

    Maybe ask the originate poster Message-ID:
seems to have disappeared after his questions..

Bob

 

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:40:06 -0600, otakuiam@webtv.net (Animeniac) wrote:

|>
|>If a tire with a tube has a cracked sidewall, is it critical to replace
|>it?
|>
    Critical? replace it when it needs it.

|>In another case, I recently noticed my CH80 front has cracked sidewalls.
|>It is tubeless however, so I figure it isn't safe even at city speeds.
|>
    I don't think the smaller tires scoot tires of 11" and less have
real m/cycle sidewalls, since the tires are about the same as Cessna and
Piper/Cub light aircraft landing tyres.....
    It doesn't really matter in that tyre size, since some ppl use car
tyres on m/cycles and it all works just almost as good and cost much less,
as a lot of youtube m/cycle tyre performance videos have shown.

    Car tyres slip more rather than the thick soft rubber of harder
sidewalled m/cycle tyres.

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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:03:10 +0000, you wrote:

|>
|>> The ignition linked side stand is a bit of an inconvenience
|>
|>So do what lots of people (includeing me) do or have done: disconnect
|>the switch.
|>

    After 5 years with it (yamy-majesty 400 yp400ts), I'm still
outweighing the possibility of using the side stand ignition cutoff as an
added anti-theft utility.

    It's not that heavy if your pepped up enough... and lift-->swing
your top body right to lower the center stand.

|>> so not
|>> using the side stand and not having to use the center stand seems like a
|>> good idea in theory.
|>
|>And that brings us back to our start: how well do you think a bike, with
|>'flat' tread like that, will corner?

    I seen vids of it cornering from a camera at the bottom of a
M/cycle, .the sidewalls flatten as you turn...no skids, which means that car
tyres can used if there is nothing else on the planet.

Bob