| Author | Message | ||
     Spectrum |
Just had a set of new tires mounted up and they mounted the rear tire going the wrong way. These are touring only tires as I have two sets of wheels. One with a soft compound for the twisties and the other set for commuting and traveling. I know mounting and dismounting wheels causes a lot of stress on the tires side walls and bead. How important is direction of travel versus the stress of dismounting and remounting the tire? The tires are Pilot Road 2's | ||
| Carbonbigfoot |
I bet it'll be o.k. If not, have the shop that mounted em buy you a new tire! | ||
| Dipstick |
Direction of rotation is important, have it swapped. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Get them changed. what a retarded move on the their part. Jeez. Under normal circustances, they will be fine. People buy takeoffs and use them with no problems, those have been mounted/demounted before. (Message edited by fresnobuell on April 22, 2009) | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Remounting is no problem. Running them the wrong way is. OK? | ||
| Spectrum |
K, I'll take it back. Thanks guys! | ||
| Jdugger |
My experience is running them the wrong way only matters in the rain. In fact, I find I like the Diablo front tire mounted backwards a bit better than "correct". I flip track day tires around and run them backwards because I tend to wear the left sides out long before the right. | ||
| Smoke |
although i flip mine on the track for wear issues and have mismounted 1 or 2 street tires and ran them that way until noticed without issue, i would have my long distance tires remounted correctly for peace of mind. you will probably be running them for 1000's of miles. tim | ||
| Pizzaboy |
i bet youre going to get sick of swapping wheels off and on your bike really quick. i couldnt imagine deciding im going to take a sunday afternoon ride in the mountain, so i swap wheels. get home and swap them again to go to work the next day. that would get old FAST.. talk about bringing the suck! couldnt you just go with one nice dual or triple compound tire?? soft edges and hard center makes for great all around warrior. nobody buys a 1125 because they want HD soft tail tire life out of it. sh!t, you just might as well buy 2 bikes.. a 1125 for twisties and a sportster for commuting... or buell tuber.... | ||
| Smoke |
1 1125r for the street with stradas and another salvage 1125r for the track with dragons. works for me!!  i got tired of swapping rims and worried about going down at the track on the street bike. no worries now! tim | ||
| Spectrum |
Thanks guys. Had the tire remounted. The tire also had a lot of weight (almost 4 oz) on it prior to the remount. I told the tire mount guy about the balance reference dots on the tire and wheel. He had never heard of such a thing. We couldn't find any reference dots on the Michelin's, so he called their support number. We found out there is a bar code label on the lip of the Michelin's that is to be used as the balance reference point. Remounted tire needed less than 1oz to bring it into balance. To be honest swapping out the wheels really hasn't been much of a problem. Most of my riding is commuting our touring. Only occasional get to the mountains or do a track day, so don't have to change the wheels that often. A second bike is defiantly in the long term plans. Not so much because of swapping the tires, but as Smoke mentioned having different setups for different needs. Plus having another ride if one is down for maintenance or repairs. Just waiting on other financial priorities. Now if Buell would just come out with a real sport touring bike, I'd have to rearrange my financial priorities. |
