sonny
Living Legend
Screw it I will get my two cents in. I ride a bit. 15,000 miles on a Rocket X bought in Oct brand new. Never even thought about a car tire for a motorcycle until now. I ride in Oklahoma and most of the roads around here are straight and not very many curves at all. The stock tires were shot at about 6,000 miles. The Avon Cobras are now about shot. I run Michelin tires on the Harley fatboy and get about 12,000 miles on them but they do not make a tire for the X so I have been looking and learning as much as possible about going to the dark-side. Lets face it, the Rocket is not a sport bike not even close. So with all that said I will this weekend buy a car tire for the Rocket X. No I will not take the bike in and have some numb-nuts figure out how to screw up taking the back wheel off and placing it back on the bike (Dealership last time) Made a bracket for the Rocket at work (WELDER BY TRADE) and it will work on getting the bike in the air enough to change out tires without the worry. Am I concerned about how the bike will handle with a car tire? Yes. Is it enough to keep me from going ahead and trying it ? NO. Can I afford a real motorcycle tire? Yes, come now the Harley Fatboy has 85,000 miles on it and bought it new in 2010. and it runs like a screaming ***** which cost a lot of money to maintain that. ENOUGH SAID.