Time for a new rear tire, car tire or bike tire ?

No worries, Openroad these are normal caveats and/or concerns whenever car tires are mentioned in the same thread as motorcycle tires.

Now, behave yourselves, the rest of youse guys!

Look what I've gone and done now, I just had to stir you fellas up thanks everyone for the advice or input. It will all be taken into consideration for my decision for sure.

Im still on my 1st set of tires after 10000klm , i have carefully thought it through as to which way i will go once i need to replace at least the rear in the next 5-6000 klm. The car tire has the attraction of being cheaper and lasting longer and i also spend a good deal of time riding in the verge to get around traffic jams on my 100klm each way trudge to work , so far i have had one puncture and i assume the softness of bike tires lends itself to easily being punctured by all manner of crud that gets thrown onto the verge , so the car tires resillence to punctures is a plus.
What isnt a plus to me is the news that Triumph will void my warranty on a 2 1/2 mth old bike for having a car tire on and my insurace would be equal to ***all if i get involved in an accident, so at the end of the day i think i'll stick with the bike tire and try one of the aformentioned brands to see how long they last

Wrecka said:

Im still on my 1st set of tires after 10000klm , i have carefully thought it through as to which way i will go once i need to replace at least the rear in the next 5-6000 klm. The car tire has the attraction of being cheaper and lasting longer and i also spend a good deal of time riding in the verge to get around traffic jams on my 100klm each way trudge to work , so far i have had one puncture and i assume the softness of bike tires lends itself to easily being punctured by all manner of crud that gets thrown onto the verge , so the car tires resillence to punctures is a plus.
What isnt a plus to me is the news that Triumph will void my warranty on a 2 1/2 mth old bike for having a car tire on and my insurace would be equal to ***all if i get involved in an accident, so at the end of the day i think i'll stick with the bike tire and try one of the aformentioned brands to see how long they last

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Wrecka said:

Im still on my 1st set of tires after 10000klm , i have carefully thought it through as to which way i will go once i need to replace at least the rear in the next 5-6000 klm. The car tire has the attraction of being cheaper and lasting longer and i also spend a good deal of time riding in the verge to get around traffic jams on my 100klm each way trudge to work , so far i have had one puncture and i assume the softness of bike tires lends itself to easily being punctured by all manner of crud that gets thrown onto the verge , so the car tires resillence to punctures is a plus.
What isnt a plus to me is the news that Triumph will void my warranty on a 2 1/2 mth old bike for having a car tire on and my insurace would be equal to ***all if i get involved in an accident, so at the end of the day i think i'll stick with the bike tire and try one of the aformentioned brands to see how long they last

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Very helpful information thankyou wrecka

TriumPhil said:

No worries, Openroad these are normal caveats and/or concerns whenever car tires are mentioned in the same thread as motorcycle tires.

Now, behave yourselves, the rest of youse guys!

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Haha thanks triumphil I know you pity those fools

Wrecka said:

... and my insurace would be equal to ***all if i get involved in an accident ...

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Not that I am thinking of swinging that way, but just out of curiosity. What is the clause in the insurance that precludes using a car tyre. We do all sorts of mods to our cars/bikes that insurance is ok with (and some that they aren't comfortable with). Maybe insurance companies regard this as a mod that affects handling?

There is no such thing as a car tyre. I challenge anyone to show me a genuine picture of a tyre that says it is a car tyre. They are passenger vehicle tyres, and are labeled as such. The motorcycle is a passenger vehicle and therefore it is legal to run passenger vehicle tyres on it. A number of motorcycles come with passenger vehicle tyres as OEM. In the eyes of the law, a motorcycle is a motorcycle - whether it has two wheels or three. It is illegal to put motorcycle tyres on a car. At least, all the above is the situation over here. It is worth checking the laws in your location. Go to a primary source, not your mate down the pub.

I don't know why Triumph Australia would void your warranty because of the tyre. Every warranty claim I made in the USofA was honoured by Triumph.

I put it like this...... if you have never tried a car tire on your motorcycle and you're considering it then at least give it a try. This is what I did and I found out the truth of what I really like on the back of my Roadster.


And that would be a motorcycle tire.

Frankly, I don't give a tinker's damm what anyone puts on their motorcycle.

Here's the truth:

Car wheels (rims) and motorcycle wheels have different beads as do the tires that are designed to be mounted on their respective, appropriate rims. In this country, you run the risk of invalidating your insurance by cross-mounting tires on rims that they are not designed for. Federal regs are the guide - D.O.T. - feel free to look it up yourselves as I did years ago.

Insurance cases have been made, adverse to car tire users on motorcycles. Why don't you hear about it? Simple, when the settlements are made, the insurance companies invariably require non-disclosure agreements from their formerly insureds, who may have incurred or caused or experienced a personal liability. Insurance cos. will do anything they can to legally avoid paying out claims.

Run a motorcycle tire... as I said, I care not. Just don't go whining to anyone if you have, cause or are involved in an accident, because if your insurance company decides to handle your case as they will if they ordinarily would have to pay out a claim when personal liability is involved, you will be S.O.L. and possibly much poorere for it.

More than likely, this scenario would play out even worse in Australia where they have some really Gestapo-like policies when it comes to vehicular regs.

BTW, Openroad, I speak from both experience and knowledge. I've previously run car tires on three different large cruisers for a sum total of approx. 30,000 miles. That includes 7,000 miles of the ****tiest handling, highest personal risk and tiring, physical, overcompensating, wrestling match-like miles that I've had out of the nearly 25,000 miles I've put on my Rocket.

My $0.02...

Openeoad said:

Haha thanks triumphil I know you pity those fools

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Now where did you go and get such an idea???