I've read somewhere that the bead on the radial tire rims are different due to radials not having the inherent side wall stiffness of bias-ply. YMMV Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Nolte <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:27:04 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Pilot Road 2s -- I'm just askin' I don't know the PRECISE rationale behind "Bias ply only" specification, but I know that you aren't supposed to mix bias and radial ply tires. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that by specing ONLY bias ply tires, it kept people from incidentally putting one and one on the bike. Then too radial ply motorcycle tires were not very common or advanced in the days when the manual was written, so... -Kurt On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:38 PM, surfswab <[email protected]> wrote: > And...does anybody know the engineering rationale behind the > recommendation to use only bias-ply? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
