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Originally Posted by VulcanV2K  Did you base this on thinking motorcycle tire are softer than car tires? If the opposite is true would it change your thinking at all? Could you consider that a car tire with a softer compound, nice conforming radial side walls and a relatively rounded profile (like my Dunlop SP5000) might not handle as badly as a hard rubber tire with a stiff sidewall that falls off the sharp edge of its flat wear pattern because it can't conform?? |
I think we're talking from two different worlds here. I've worked with enough tires of both persuasions to know that a car sidewall is never going to "conform" enough to duplicate what a sharply curved sportbike tire does in a hard lean (beyond, say, 40 degrees from vertical). Obviously, you aren't speaking to sportbike riders, but that's the perspective I have. Maybe my rejection of the idea of using a square car tire comes more from my demand for good handling (of the sportbike variety), and not from any real or perceived characteristic of the tires in question. I'm guessing we'd agree that a car tire is not suitable for a sporting application. I'm curious what your experience has been in that arena. Should you indicate that a car tire would work well on a sportbike, I'd be forced to dismiss you as completely loony.
