Continental Classic Attack Vintage Radials - Excellent!!! (2014)

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You are jumping the gun making any assessment of a tyre size before it is mounted on your rim and set to a correct pressure!

Your 120 and 110 comparison appears to show that they are of different profile?

Not that I disagree with you sending the 120 back, I think it would likely be a problem when fully inflated for no actual return in roadholding or handling, certainly in road use or even track days.

I have a 3.2" rim, it might work, but at the moment I will stick to what I know, and would most likely choose the 110 if I tried the Conti, but knowing my rim would flatten it out a little bit.
 
Getting high mileage out of motorcycle rear tires is something I am not familiar with. However, I could say I got 27 years out of an Avon Super Venom rear on my Norton. Rode it for a couple thousand miles then parked it for 27 years before changing it. 3 rears a year on the street was fairly common in California in my youth. Probably 1 every 2 years now given how short the riding season is in the pacific northwest. Fronts last a long time for me in general. Much longer than the rears. Blah blah

I'm running Conti Go tires since they are relatively easy to find, price is tolerable, and I like the tread pattern. Skinnier the better for me. The Attacks look nice but would make no difference for the higher price in my case. Any tire with Classic in the name is overpriced IMO.

Tom I think choosing the narrower rear is wise on a street bike. I personally am a big fan of narrower tires on both ends of the Norton. I could explain why, but then I'd have to explain myself further, and I don't have any charts or graphs.
 
tomspro said:
Re: Continental Classic Attack Vintage Radials - Excellent!!

Assume you are running the tires with tubes on those wheels.
I just researched and purchased new tires (Bridgestone Battlax BT45) after much research.
Did not go with radials because one manufacturer (Dunlop?) does not recommend using radials with tubes.

Anyone have thoughts about this?
(silly question - of course you do :lol: ).
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Would you please post a link to the Battlax supplier's website ? I cannot get 18 inch performance tyres in Australia.
 
I don't ride motorcycles which do not have steering dampers. You only have to chirp the front tyre to get into a tank slapper . if you don't get yo hands off the bars quickly enough, it can launch you.. An hydraulic steering damper applies more resistance the quicker the steering moves but can still be set to give almost no resistance under normal circumstances. My friend tells me the steering damper compensates for bad handling, but any bike can launch you if you ride it fast enough to lose grip at the front.
When you road race, you generally go progressively faster both going into corners and coming out, so what happens when you lose grip is predictable and you adjust the damper to suit. When riding a road bike every corner is new.
 
SteveA said:
You are jumping the gun making any assessment of a tyre size before it is mounted on your rim and set to a correct pressure!
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SteveA said:
You are jumping the gun making any assessment of a tyre size before it is mounted on your rim and set to a correct pressure!
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i am not making any assessment, just providing measurements i took which i had a hard time finding. I had some inclinations that Conti's ran a little narrow. I believe that's the case from what i measured
 
TomU said:
i am not making any assessment, just providing measurements i took which i had a hard time finding. I had some inclinations that Conti's ran a little narrow. I believe that's the case from what i measured
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Always two ways of looking at something, my experience with Avon and Heidenaus is that the Avon 'runs a little wide' ;)

This means that in my custom made swinging arm I have to trim both sides of a 130/70 18 Avon and I don't trim a 130/70 18 Heidenau at all!

I could hope that I would not to trim a 120/90 18 Conti, but I still don't know. However, just to confuse, they don't do the 120/90 in a race compound, the choice is a 110/80 or 130/80, and I think the 80 profile might be the problem here due to swinging arm taper!

Not today's problem, I have a tyre to wear out first.
 
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Schwany said:
Getting high mileage out of motorcycle rear tires is something I am not familiar with. However, I could say I got 27 years out of an Avon Super Venom rear on my Norton. Rode it for a couple thousand miles then parked it for 27 years before changing it. 3 rears a year on the street was fairly common in California in my youth. Probably 1 every 2 years now given how short the riding season is in the pacific northwest. Fronts last a long time for me in general. Much longer than the rears. Blah blah

I'm running Conti Go tires since they are relatively easy to find, price is tolerable, and I like the tread pattern. Skinnier the better for me. The Attacks look nice but would make no difference for the higher price in my case. Any tire with Classic in the name is overpriced IMO.

Tom I think choosing the narrower rear is wise on a street bike. I personally am a big fan of narrower tires on both ends of the Norton. I could explain why, but then I'd have to explain myself further, and I don't have any charts or graphs.
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"Balloon tire corner cripples" came to mind.

www.accessnorton.com

Too balloon or not to balloon

So, its too @#$%ing hot here in the Namib desert to acutally do any work so I'm hunkered in my airconditioned office looking at bikes on the net. I notice that lots of customizers prefer to use balloon tyres. is this only for cosmetic reasons or do they also improve performance. Sorry if this is...
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concours said:
"Balloon tire corner cripples" came to mind.

www.accessnorton.com

Too balloon or not to balloon

So, its too @#$%ing hot here in the Namib desert to acutally do any work so I'm hunkered in my airconditioned office looking at bikes on the net. I notice that lots of customizers prefer to use balloon tyres. is this only for cosmetic reasons or do they also improve performance. Sorry if this is...
www.accessnorton.com www.accessnorton.com
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Extreme measures for a look those fat tires are. Feedback from the road must be very vague.
 
If the rear tyre is too large, it can affect the handling. when the sides of your rear tyre align perfectly with the sides of your front tyre, the handling is usually much more precise. A large rear tyre can make your bike feel heavy as it turns. I use 4 inch rear tyre with a 3.6 inch front, but I have much more trail on my steering than you would have with a road bike. I ride the bike differently. In corners it stays much more upright and when I gas it hard, I sometimes lose traction on the rear. The weight distribution has an effect.
 
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