I used to have macadam 50's on my K75S- they're bias belt, not radials!
Tire problem...
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Also there are different load ratings.... If the tyre insnt the correct load rating it will delaminate as the pic suggests.... also if it's been loaded.
Was an instructor based at a dealers many moons ago and a bloke came in with a 1200Wing and was complaining of having a 2nd tyre delaminating.... tyre correct fitment for bike etc but the guys were having a chip at the Blackpool Illuminations set up on the bike and in conversation it cam out that he needed a number of car batteries in the panniers to run the light show...
Sure enough they weighd the rear end and it was well above the load rating...
Was an instructor based at a dealers many moons ago and a bloke came in with a 1200Wing and was complaining of having a 2nd tyre delaminating.... tyre correct fitment for bike etc but the guys were having a chip at the Blackpool Illuminations set up on the bike and in conversation it cam out that he needed a number of car batteries in the panniers to run the light show...
Sure enough they weighd the rear end and it was well above the load rating...
deaninkl
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Sorry to disapoint Wapping, but as said in a post yesterday I'll be getting a Battlewing today...so I'm hoping the ride home will be uneventfull. I would have ridden the bad tire home though, having been riding in S.E. Asia for 30 years I've seen some lash ups and have had fun myself. One on a C90 in sumatra and having used the last of my spare innertubes I was shown a local trick by farmers near a town called Bukit Tinggi, they stuffed by split tire with rice stalks.....it got me the 30km I needed to the nearest bike shop.
Slightly different with a 230kg GS I know....and I may have been a tad lighter myself also.....it was 1982...
Slightly different with a 230kg GS I know....and I may have been a tad lighter myself also.....it was 1982...
deaninkl
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Had the wheel off today in preperation for new tire arrival, I checked the DOT numbers as per the site supplied by Peter K, the DOT number is actually a combination of numbers and letters, last the last 3 are numbers and are 008, indicating the tire was made in 1998, which would explain the deteriation of the rubber. Tire was made in Spain, probably on a Friday afternoon....
Well at least if someone want's to know what a bias-ply tyre is made out of they can see it here.
1998 tyre sorted in a 30c+ shed for 10 years
1998 tyre sorted in a 30c+ shed for 10 years
deaninkl
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Tire arrived yesterday evening, but local bike shop could not fit it as they only had tire ions and I stopped their persistant efforts as I could see the rim having a chuck taken out of it if they kept trying... so we have it sent by van to a nearby small town and a car tire shop fitted it with the correct tools came back looking good last night so I'll fit it back on the bike today.
Word of warning to any entrepid amongst you...if you are going to the middle of nowhere make sure you have your own torx socket to get the wheel off, now garrages where I am had anything, lucky from past experience I carry it with me, but on the BMW tool kit you wont find it.
Word of warning to any entrepid amongst you...if you are going to the middle of nowhere make sure you have your own torx socket to get the wheel off, now garrages where I am had anything, lucky from past experience I carry it with me, but on the BMW tool kit you wont find it.
1998 tyre sorted in a 30c+ shed for 10 years
I am definitely showing wear and tear after being 15 years here
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