Maybe you don't think it "holds water", but use your own logic and call any motorcycle company engineer and ask if it's safe to more than double the HP in any given motorcycle. I guessing their answer is going to be no. Motorcycles are engineered to withstand a certain amount of HP and torque. Exceeding these values could cause catastrophic failure. Including lockups due to total transmission, or driveline failure. It is definitely not aerodynamically designed to exceed the 120mph speed limiter that was built into my bike, yet I would wager it is nonexistent on most modified rockets.
I understand and accept the risks with using a darkside tire just as I did when I removed that speed limiter. There's just no reason to pretend that . There are literally thousands of examples of them on the roads. Surely someone who has had problems would be complaining on a forum somewhere if it has happened. I am still looking though.
Btw. Adding that HP is variable and that it's the riders input doesn't really help your argument. Most advances in technology in automotive and motorcycle safety seem to be to protect you from yourself. Stability control, antilock braking, launch control and even applying brakes before you rearend another car. Basically, engineers understand that we are flawed and make bad decisions. They have even figured out a way to read posted speed signs and have your car automatically adjust. I'm just waiting on the implementation of that one.
If you're gonna' modify any motor vehicle to deliver more speed or power than OEM specs, you'd be pretty dumb not to modify any and all components of said vehicle to handle such add'l speed or power as
safely and reliably as possible. Now, any dumb-dumb knows that "speed kills" and climbing tall mountains or surfing giant waves or swimming alone are all inherently true. IFT has done plenty of expert witness work for both the motorcycle industry and for insurors, so maybe he will enlighten you (as we've done before in other similar threads) as to why "[You] can find no reported incidence where a ct caused an accident. No one else seems to be able to either."
We are certainly not positing that if you choose to darkside "you will die if you use a ct", as you stated. That's a false and unsubstantiated arguement or line of reasoning. It can be stated and affirmed,
categorically, that mixing such tires and rims
adds an increased, existential risk to any rider, any of a rider's passengers and anyone that happens to be proximate enough to a catastrophic tire separation event to be hurt. Of course, we're not beating that old dead horse of the laundry list of other reasons why using car tires on motorcycle rims involves a compromises that nearly all riders who value safety, comfort, responsivenes to rider input, handling, maneuverability, quicker reaction times, etc, over and above $$$, will not only opt for, but will insist upon every time they ride.
You are definitely right about one thing, though, Wannbe. Unless or until the practice is outlawed as it has been elsewher in the world, it is still a choice. Certain members here will
always present factual, verifiable information, the "other side" of the purely anecdotal story that is almost always the Darksider's only knowledge base, so that people contemplating the choice can make fully informed decisions for themselves.
) that holds not one drop of water, logically or rationally.
