Suggestions for rear darkside

barneytheweasel said:

Seems no one can answer the question. I wasn't asking about your opinions on darkside riding. I was asking those in the know what tires they found best. If you know nothing about riding darkside you may be well advised to learn a bit then speak. I have had my Rocket for 17 years. and 15 other bikes currently and been riding 60 years. I have done countless miles on darkside on the Rocket. It works and on the Avon's I ran before she let go out of hard corners on hard accel. The car tire never has. I got 3000 k's out of Avons and 29,000ks from CT's.

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tdragger said:

For the over 76k miles that I put on my Rocket, all but the first 4k were running darkside. By far the best solution was the Riken Raptor ZR in a 225/55/16. It is only 1% larger in circumference from stock and handled great. I averaged 29.5k miles out of each one that I used. Some particular good features about the Riken include: 1) it has a symmetrical tread pattern, 2) the center rib has a wavy edge to it that helps immensely with handling grooved roadways, 3) and its price point. You might have to do some searching for it but I was generally able to find it on TireRack.com.

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