Afan
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If somebody interested in the subject, I think it's worth watching. By FortNine.
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The zip ties method is a way to mount a tire without a tire machine. It is difficult to find a shop or garage that will mount a car tire on a motorcycle wheel due to liability. You either need to know a friend or do it yourself.Boy, I watched that video and I thought, "no way." But, DavidC has some good points, including the fact that most of my commute is by freeway or very straight road. Considering that I'm already on my fourth rear tire after only 29k miles due to the first replacement was old and sold by a dealer and the 2nd replacement was taken out by a nail that a car tire could have been easily plugged. My original pickup tires got replaced after 5 years with rubber still on them and the 2nd was replaced at 10 years with around 75k miles on the clock again with a lot of rubber left. (It is very important in Arizona to watch the age of the tire, the heat will dry rot them quick.)
The only thing I see is that whole thing with mounting it with the zip ties looks a little much. Is that just because he was using a tire that was too wide? A quick look at Tire Rack reveals that we might need to go with a wider tire to avoid too tall of a sidewall. Or maybe going with a 145/70 would work because the tread is flat instead of rounded? A 155/70 would be just a little taller than the Shinko that I have.
Regardless, I might consider the rear but there is no way I would think about the front.
I'll have to try it next time. It was a bit of a struggle getting the tire on the rim last time. I guess that I can see where the zip ties would hold the one side in the middle while levering the other side.The zip ties method is a way to mount a tire without a tire machine. It is difficult to find a shop or garage that will mount a car tire on a motorcycle wheel due to liability. You either need to know a friend or do it yourself.
I used the zip tie method recently to mount my Shinko 705s on my NC700X (by hand using zip ties to hold the beads together and tire levers). It works much better than I thought it would.
JT
There are a lot of videos on YouTube.I'll have to try it next time. It was a bit of a struggle getting the tire on the rim last time. I guess that I can see where the zip ties would hold the one side in the middle while levering the other side.
Pretty sure I found one a year or two ago. But it weighed 10 pounds more than heavy-duty MC tires I was getting around 10,000 miles out of. True, the initial price was tempting and so was the cost per mile. But why would I want to drag down the mild NC engine like that just for more distance out of a tire? The acceleration and handling degradation on a bike not really heavy enough for this approach would bum me out bigtime. Fun would go right out the window.I searched for a car tire that would work on the NC but all the 17" tires I found were too wide for the wheel well.