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- From: karen@angelo.amd.com (Karen Black)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: HONDA GB500 - club racer single.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.000156.3872@amd.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:01:56 GMT
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- In article <BxMq4L.FrJ@news.iastate.edu> tomes@iastate.edu () writes:
- >In article <DUKE.92Nov12131222@portal.paperboy.osf.org> duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard) writes:
- >
- >>One thing though--the tires are really small: 90/90 in the front and
- >>100/90 in the rear. It's about time for me to get new ones...
- >
- >Well, can you stand German tires for a change? Metzeler seems to be
- >holding its own in the performance wars, and I have 100/90-18 and 110/90-18
- >on my Seca. Im pretty sure that the diam. of your rims puts you in the league
- >for a Laser front and a ME55 rear. These tires have worked well for me for 10k
- >miles, with the rear (used to be a ME99) going at 7k. Front still has ~1k to
- >go before replacement.
-
- I just put a ME77 on my GB's rear rim (the listed size was 4.00 x 18, but
- I was warned that tire sizes vary from manufacturer to manufacturer). It's
- done a good job on the first 800 miles I gave it; the bike feels much more
- responsive with a properly-round tire on the back.
-
- Karen Black
-