Change from motorcycle tire to car tire at rear?

Lots of Valkyrie riders had "gone to the dark side", They regularly drag the pegs in Deal's Gap so I dn't know if that's a "down side to handling", or not.

Go to the Valkyrie Riders Cruiser Club (VRCC) and check out the tech board. You'll have to register (free) to post a question but you should be able to search the message board.

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/board,5...

Car tires have a flat tread. Motorcycle tires have a rounded tread so they get traction while leaning in a corner. Cars don't lean in corners. I would think it would be dangerous to use a car tire on a motorcycle, even on a cruiser or touring bike. This is because you would be fighting the bike to lean in a corner. If the bike would lean in a corner you would ride up on the side wall which would give little traction. I wouldn't risk my life to save a few bucks on a tire. Do it right and use a tire designed for the task.

aH..... Thinking of going over to the Dark Side you are.

Automobile tires are made with a much stiffer rubber. They have a flatter profile. If you ride mostly upright and put 20,000 miles or so a year on your motorcycle you may consider crossing over to the Dark Side. With an automobile tire you will get many more miles out of the tire. The cost, there is *always* a cost, is that you will have relatively pitiful handling. A motorcycle tire, in a turn, keeps a large contact on the road. A car tire, in a turn, will lift most of the tread off the road and you will be riding on just the edge corner of the tire. You lose a lot of cornering traction. But if you don't push it, don't lean far in the wet, you will most likely be OK.

If I had a touring bike that spent 99% of it's time upright on the Interstate I would likely be on car tires.

Instead, I ride city, regularly scrape pegs, ride in wet, over painted lines and steel manhole covers. I don't give up my safety to save a few bucks on a tire. I run Metzelers.

don't be daft, there is more technology in motorcycle tires than any other tires on the road or flying above it. Look at the profile and contact patch on a car tire then look at a motorcycles tire the difference should be very apparent. Car tires are flat at contact and motorcycle tires are shaped like a "U", for a damn good reason,corners, cars do not lean into corners bikes do. If you plan on dragging the bike that would be the only application that would suit, I would interested in seeing what the rim you plan on mounting this adventure onto. be carefull

On certain bikes some owners have done this with good results, a longer lasting tire, decent grip, etc. BUT the down side is that handling suffers. You can not corner quite as fast, because you can't lean the bike over as far, so if you can keep your speed down in the turns, then good luck and happy tire hunting, but if you are like me that most of the fun of riding is in scraping floor boards and foot pegs in turns, then stick with motorcycle tires.

A car tire will give you DREADFUL handling. Period. The only way in which it might "outperform" a bike tire is in terms of longevity: It will last forever, because you won't ever want to ride the bike with handling that evil.

You must know what you are doing before you change things

a simple example is fit a much larger tire might give you more grip but at the cost of a slower bike not to mention weird steering.

Answer - ask a decent mechanic ! also ask him what else to do to keep bike safe and you alive

Ya ever notice how on a bike tire, no matter how wide, the contour of the tire along the tread pattern is rounded? This is for leaning in a turn.

A car tire is flat along the tread pattern. (looking across from outboard side of tread to inboard side of tread).

Motorcycle tires are made of thicker rubber to help protect them from road hazards. I don't think using a car tire is a good idea. It's like using a car tire on an airplane...they just aren't made for the job.

It's been done for burnout competitions and dragsters.... biggest reason.... they don't steer much. Do you plan to steer your bike or not?