Rear Tire Size
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RE: Rear Tire Size
I just bought a Pirelli Diablo Rosso 180 and it looks skinny compared to my old dunlop 180. Yeah i love the twisties and leaning hard but my buddy just bought a CBR 1000 and he has a 190. I was thinking about upgrading next time but it sounds like its a down grade in performance if i go to 190... if so, why does the 1000 have a 190 rear tire? ..... 200 looks pretty though!!!?!?!?!
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RE: Rear Tire Size
ORIGINAL: vaggabon
I just bought a Pirelli Diablo Rosso 180 and it looks skinny compared to my old dunlop 180. Yeah i love the twisties and leaning hard but my buddy just bought a CBR 1000 and he has a 190. I was thinking about upgrading next time but it sounds like its a down grade in performance if i go to 190... if so, why does the 1000 have a 190 rear tire? ..... 200 looks pretty though!!!?!?!?!
I just bought a Pirelli Diablo Rosso 180 and it looks skinny compared to my old dunlop 180. Yeah i love the twisties and leaning hard but my buddy just bought a CBR 1000 and he has a 190. I was thinking about upgrading next time but it sounds like its a down grade in performance if i go to 190... if so, why does the 1000 have a 190 rear tire? ..... 200 looks pretty though!!!?!?!?!
The 1000 has a 190 rear tire because the bike was designed to have a 190 rear tire.
Not because a 190 is wider and looks cooler, but because the 1000 needs one and has a 190 designed for it.
The 900rr was designed to have a 180 size tire.
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RE: Rear Tire Size
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RE: Rear Tire Size
I'd go with the 180/55 if you just commute around town. If you hit twisties then you might consider 190/50 since it maintains the turn in of a 180 with a larger 190 contact patch but anything bigger is just silly and affects performance.
[2 cents]
Stretching it for anything other than drag strip makes a bike look too ghetto. Might as well get spinning rims and take off a front rotor.
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[2 cents]
Stretching it for anything other than drag strip makes a bike look too ghetto. Might as well get spinning rims and take off a front rotor.
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