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slap-pop-karl
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Fatter tyres? Reply with quote
When my tyres are ready for a change I am thinking of getting a fatter set. 130 on the back and a 110 maybe a 100 on the front. I was wondering though....whats the benefit of a fatter tyre?
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PostPosted: 19:32 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
What bike is it, and what's on it at the moment?
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PostPosted: 19:38 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its an AJS CR-3 125. There is a 100 on the rear and a 90 on the front as a recall.
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PostPosted: 19:58 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
If it is Chinese, the tyres will outlast it.
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PostPosted: 20:00 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
...Whats with the china hate??
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A lot of youngsters buy Chinese bikes as they are attracted by the looks and price. The quality is generally poor and some are plain dangerous with frames that snap.
When the Chinese come to terms with quality control like they have with capitalist greed they may have a chance.
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
1930 Ariel wrote:
A lot of youngsters buy Chinese bikes as they are attracted by the looks and price. The quality is generally poor and some are plain dangerous with frames that snap.
When the Chinese come to terms with quality control like they have with capitalist greed they may have a chance.


what he said Karma
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
jack_zxr400 wrote:
1930 Ariel wrote:
A lot of youngsters buy Chinese bikes as they are attracted by the looks and price. The quality is generally poor and some are plain dangerous with frames that snap.
When the Chinese come to terms with quality control like they have with capitalist greed they may have a chance.


what he said Karma


What they said Karma

p.s...I have seen the quality of a Chinese bike during a strip down and rebuild...shocking is about the closest description, narrowly ahead of appalling and dangerous.
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PostPosted: 20:15 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh I understand you get what you pay for, did understand that befor I bought it. Figured if bennits would insure it, it wouldn't be that bad....anyway.....off topic Razz
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PostPosted: 20:18 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Re: Fatter tyres? Reply with quote
slap-pop-karl wrote:
whats the benefit of a fatter tyre?


A thinner wallet Laughing

Don't waste your cash.

What a waste of a once great British name, reduced to selling rehashed chinese imports.

I really can't see one of these in a transport museum in 50 years.....
Well only as a pile of rust on the floor. Embarassed
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
So there actually is no benefit?
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PostPosted: 20:26 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Re: Fatter tyres? Reply with quote
iooi wrote:


What a waste of a once great British name, reduced to selling rehashed chinese imports.



Indeed...truly a tragedy of Shakspearean proportions.
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PostPosted: 20:28 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
slap-pop-karl wrote:
So there actually is no benefit?


None whatsoever.

Leave it standard, sell it and save up for a Yamaha YZF125.
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
okay thank you very much Smile.... So why did they bother doing it to the cbr f3?
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PostPosted: 20:51 - 01 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
More rubber on the road more traction but more resistance. With a large bike where loosing traction because of power this is a fair trade off, however on a 125 narrow tyres give less resistance and you do not need the extra traction. Why do manufactures fit fat tyres on little bikes? Fashion.
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PostPosted: 13:28 - 03 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
1930 Ariel wrote:
More rubber on the road more traction but more resistance. With a large bike where loosing traction because of power this is a fair trade off, however on a 125 narrow tyres give less resistance and you do not need the extra traction. Why do manufactures fit fat tyres on little bikes? Fashion.


Nearly... the pressure over surface area also matters. ie, wide tyres on a wet road can actually reduce grip by being less efficient at moving water.

So with the low weight of a 125 you could have more grip in the situations where it really matters if you have thinner tyres.
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PostPosted: 17:25 - 06 Sep 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ahh, thank you very much for that Smile
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