Dark Side...The Last Time...Promise!! (Pictures)

Jimbosidecar said:

I can't imagine how it would handle on a solo bike. My bike is a sidecar rig where it makes good sense if you want to save money on tire costs and mileage range. But I do know a couple people who have put them on Goldwings and these don't have a sidecar. But a Goldwing is hardly a canyon carver

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#3 · Jul 2, 2018
Yes ... Yellow Wolf eventually crashed his yellow Wing in a corner that had sand in it. He was running a CT at the time.

#11 · Jul 4, 2018
The CT saved him from the other 317 curves......

#4 · Jul 2, 2018
Yes, he was using car tire and said he was faster on dragon with car tire than bike tire. Front tire lost traction on sand in corner.

#5 · Jul 2, 2018
CT do NOT lose traction . . . on anything! So, you know it was from the front (motorcycle) tire!

Darkside #598
2018 red DCT Tour
2018 Jeep Trackhawk 707 hp

#6 · Jul 2, 2018
I don't "know" it was front tire but yellow wolf said that was what happened.

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Ishrub said:

Ya reckon?


Lots of folks here on the forum have or do run Darkside as the stock rear rim is so wide it easily caters for it and the never ending "discussion' has just about petered out with exhaustion.
You may have have noticed it even has its own Forum section.

The Dark Side

You put a car tire on WHAT?

www.r3owners.net

My 'niggle' is the different bead lock angles between car and motorcycle rims meaning car tyres never perfectly match and contact the machined rim surface as designed.
Ya either believe or you don't!

Personally I would be happy to run them with chairs but still run motorcycle tyres on my solos.

https://www.gl1800riders.com/threads/tail-of-the-dragon.431791/

Ironically for your post I found this in a Google search!
WTF!

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