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Repair and upgrade recommendations 1977 cb550f1

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bomber:
I'm looking for a dual tyres to fit my bike, quite like an idea of knobbly but their must be crap on the road right?
Micke
Did this tyres fit straight into standard rims?
Thanks


--- Quote from: Green1 on August 12, 2014, 09:21:06 PM ---Can't go wrong with metzeler tourance I have them on my Pegaso excellent tyre.
Dead quiet on road and can cope with dusty tracks.

Micke

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Green1:
The tyres on the peg are on standard Ali rims they are  100/90 19 and 130/80 17 so they would probably fit.

Mick
 

JustcallmeMrT:
I'm have to replace my rims, would you guys suggest going a size wider?  Does that make it easier to find tires?

matthewmosse:
Hmm, how do you intend to use the bike? And how much do you want to change? Basically from my time on bikes I found the fassion for fat rear tyres is ok for summer, but that first sheen of icyness come winter / spring / autum and the back end of the bike gets unhappy. Other factor is that you cannot go much wider before you start rubbing on brake torque arms and stuff. I cannot advise much further, I have run a wider rear tyre, it rubbed the torque arm of the brake, looked fine at standstill but that 5mm clearence vanished somewhere when riding, after messing with trying to offset the torque arm a bit and running the tyres at different pressures I abandoned that wheel (15 inch rim and tyre, not sure of the size of the tyre but was abot 5 inch wide I think). If you do want to take the bike out on those crisp winter mornings or indeed commute into winter then I personally would stick with the stock sizes, I never dropped a bike in winter running the stock 70s size tyres, and that includes riding in snow, over the Breacon beacons on a bmw ( same tyres as my 500/4 ) but the past 5 years, doing a lot less miles have seen my modern Hondas with fatter rear tyres take a fair few tumbles or gone sideways incedents. In short I am pretty determined after the last off broke my foot that I do not want to see another winter on fat tyres. I have never had issues finding tyres for my old bikes.modern sizes seem to cost more if like me you prefer to scrape the barrel and run part worns, in fact I don't bother on the modern bikes.p

JustcallmeMrT:
I'm a function first kind of guy, so I'll stick with factory sizes - no use running larger if the stock runs better in the harsher conditions.

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