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- From: bsstrs@gdr.bath.ac.uk (T R Stickland)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Oversize Tires
- Keywords: Metzler Kawasaki Tire Over
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.181429.3218@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:14:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.223556.16906@tc.fluke.COM>
- Organization: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bath, UK
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- In the referenced article, zippy@tc.fluke.COM (Steven Zopfi) writes:
- >
- >Ok here is a general question that hopefully someone might have a
- >comment on. I have a 85 Kawi GPz 550 with a ME33A up front and a ME99
- >in back. I am getting to the point, probably soon, that I need to
- >replace the tires. Now the ME99 is a 90 120X18 and I have been
- >thinking of going to a ME55 instead because I understand that it is a
- >better tire than the 99. Problem is that the ME55 doesn't come in 120
- >size, only 90 130x18. Anybody got a gut feeling if this tire will work
- [etc]
-
- comments:
-
- - if it is a different tyre the _correct_ size may be different
- Telephone Metzler and ask them (also pressure may be different
-
- - fit the recommened size for that tyre and no other
-
- advice comes via me from a tyre development specialist at Avon tyres
- (this is a few miles from here, he teaches at the same m/c training
- centre as me).
-
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