| Author | Message | ||
     Toomanytoys |
is there something different about model specific tires? my buddy wants to replace the tires on his new CBR, and i said i would take the old ones off his hands. when i looked up the tires he has, i see that they are made specifically for the Honda CBR. my feeling is that they could not be any different, because then he would not be able to install any other tires on his bike, he would always have to buy the OEM replacements. | ||
| Bomber |
some factories cut special deal w/tire folks, lighter weight, slighty diff compaund profiles, and like that -- they would likely work on your bike (and the other way round), just not quite as well as they were intended | ||
| Ray_maines |
or maybe better than the factory intended.......... The most you can really say is that the standard tires will work differently. Maybe the factory type tires are sticker but you do all your riding on the freeway and place higher value on longer tread life, or vice versa. Etc. etc. .... | ||
| Taxman |
well the buells version of dunlops are a different shape. correct me if i'm wrong but aren't the sides shaved down a bit to make them a bit more curved? it is probably just something like that. | ||
| Davegess |
Buell's dulps are lighter than the standard dunlop of the same model |
