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Old 05-14-2008, 10:19 PM   #10 (permalink)
demingrickjames
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Originally Posted by Hvymtl View Post
We have a couple of die hard riders here that ride about 100 miles a day on their Honda VTX 1800s. They both use a car tire and get outstanding mileage without any side effects as you mention. Don't see how that tire could corner...but until I try it...I'll take yours and their words for it. Sure would be cheaper in the long run.
It does corner. Believe it or not, you actually have more rubber on the road in a hard lean with the car tire.

The stock tire costs $300+ to replace and only lasted 7500 miles. The car tire was $138 delivered to my house and has an 80,000 mile tread.
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