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[iski]

Iski I believe you and I think along some of the same lines. Hopefully we are not the only two on this forum. 

HighOnHD, although I do my best to try not to think, sometimes I still do & the next thing I know......it's not the next thing I know.  We most likely do.  Life is short, the time we waste use is valuable, it's more fun with a smile.

To tell ya the truth, I don't care if somebody runs tractor tires on a Sportster, much less run car tires on a bagger.  If it makes 'em happy & they don't run my ass over, great.

 

[Ironhorse]

I don't care if somebody runs tractor tires on a Sportster, much less run car tires on a bagger.  If it makes 'em happy & they don't run my ass over, great.

[iski]

Very practical application!   

[HighOnHD]

Now that looks like something to consider when old age sets in! Probably more fun to ride than a trike anyway. 

[bigC]

How does that do in the Ride like a Pro course, and how far a part would the cones need to be 

[Ironhorse]

How does that do in the Ride like a Pro course, and how far a part would the cones need to be 

Not a problem it just mows ‘em right down,...lol!

[Para Bellum]

As for the question I posed it was "Anybody out there riding their CVO on the Dark Side?". Why do I need to define it? If you do it then you know what it is and conversely if you don't know what it means then you most certainly don't do it.

As one engineer to another, the hole in that logic is large enough to drive your cyclotron through.  That's the problem with asking questions that are just attempts to receive validation of your own decisions:  They aren't really about getting information.

[Cat Eye]

For us simple Bikers

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1934 in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the centre along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying (radio frequency) electric field

Hope this clear this up.

[OBB]

For us simple Bikers

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1934 in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the centre along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying (radio frequency) electric field

Hope this clear this up.

So who makes it? Honda? 

[Cat Eye]

So who makes it? Honda? 

Not sure, but I  hear it can roast one hell of a pistachio nut.

 

[iski]

Not sure, but I  hear it can roast one hell of a pistachio nut.

 

True, but if you do you will void your warranty.

 

[Para Bellum]

Not sure, but I  hear it can roast one hell of a pistachio nut.

 

Not going to roast my chestnuts!  Not even one of them!   

[RayG]

Some of the remarks remind me of what went on here a few years ago, it was a small house cleaning and we lost some members that just has enough personal attacks.  Why look for a fight?  There are not allot of members that offer so much time and advice helping a wide variety of forum members.  I for one don't want to loose their input regardless of their position on certain subjects.  I just don't see why this post had to get so personal, can't we just read what we want and ignore what we want to without a verbal go around?  I might be wrong but it would not be the first time someone waits in the back ground ready to pounce in some kind of ambush setting. 

We don't need this.     

[FlaHeatWave]

Some of the remarks remind me of what went on here a few years ago, it was a small house cleaning and we lost some members that just has enough personal attacks.  Why look for a fight?  There are not allot of members that offer so much time and advice helping a wide variety of forum members.  I for one don't want to loose their input regardless of their position on certain subjects.  I just don't see why this post had to get so personal, can't we just read what we want and ignore what we want to without a verbal go around?  I might be wrong but it would not be the first time someone waits in the back ground ready to pounce in some kind of ambush setting. 

We don't need this.   

Yep! What he said!

[Mountainman streetbob]

I suppose if you just ride in a straight line it probably won't hurt to run an automotive radial tire, but from an engineering standpoint it is not a wise modification.  The benefits claimed by all those Gold Wing riders about improved tire wear and fewer tire failures might be due to the comparison to the stock Honda tires, which have a significantly lower load rating compared to what will come on your new Harley.

The whole idea started way back in the 50's and 60's on "choppers", because tire companies didn't make wide tires for bikes back then.  Considering how evil the handling was on a severely raked out front end, I guess the chopper riders didn't mind that the car tires sucked for anything other than straight line low speed cruising.  Try some high speed cornering and the pucker factor increased exponentially.  Thanks, but no thanks.




fwiw car tires have been used on harleys since the 1920-'s at least.....

BTW I went darkside less than 24 hours before heading out on a 3k mile ride to idaho, wyoming, tetons, rockies, plains and back to Alabama this June.

spent the first 750 mile day making suspension adjustments at each fuel stop!

BTW I anticipated issues and added preload spacer in forks as well as thicker heavier fork oil..same day we installed the car tire..

Learned a lot, Put 7k miles on my 18 heritage 114 in less than 6 weeks.

Car tire worked great non the dragon, in the tetons or running 100mph from missouri to Idaho in 112* temps... Car tire REALLY REALLY REALLY worked well hitting gravel at 50mph in the wyoming boonies as well as massive heat rain showers SEVERAL afternoons.


Darkside is fun!!!

Jerry