You can go flat on a sport bike tire and not know it. On a bias ply your all over the road. The sidewalk height is much taller and thinner on a bias ply.
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 11, 2012, at 4:44 AM, "Allen Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > From: Kurt Nolte <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:27:04 -0500 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [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. -- 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.
