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Post by milly on Aug 27, 2023 17:00:50 GMT -5
My motorcycle has 18x2.75 front and 16x3.50 rear. It doesn't lay down much power being a 125cc but what I am after is a good premium grippy tyre for the mud, snow and wet of winter.
I have used Anlas Winter City grip with good effect over the years on my scooters but they only come in tubeless and I need tubed.
Any advice gratefully received I don't fancy bouncing down the road at my age if I have to avoid the Dodo driving of some people round here when I have to take to the edge/verge of the road on rare occasions with crap tyres.
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Post by aeroxbud on Aug 27, 2023 18:19:24 GMT -5
I cant find something with tyres for front and back that matches. They are pretty weird sizes.
If you find some tubeless tyres, you could always put tubes inside. Or perhaps try a metric size?
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Post by jackrides on Aug 28, 2023 12:04:46 GMT -5
With normal bias ply motorcycle tyres, the pattern does not have to match. Wide, deep tread cuts (sipes?) crossways to the tire will enable bite and water expelling. What brands of tyres are easily available to you?
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 28, 2023 14:48:40 GMT -5
I see lots of the 18x2.75 size on eBay and Amazon. Google is down at the moment but a regular fat knobby bicycle tyre may work on the rear. Google came back up and I see many on eBay and Amazon, even walmart over on this side of the pond. Any tubeless tyre will take tubes. Back in ancient times many old codgers put tubes in their newfangled tubeless tyres because they did not trust them new idears. Many of them groused about not having solid stone wheels for their wagons to each other while chomping on their cee-gars and warming their hands by the damn cast iron stove that did not produce warmth like a proper fire.
BTW- I have spent many hours around 'proper' open fires, cast iron stoves, and gas stoves warming my hands..... I still have an old gas stove sitting in the corner of my basement that was new back in the latter 1800's. It needs some ceramic inserts. Maybe I should look for some and hook it back up for when the power is out in the winter.....
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Post by milly on Aug 28, 2023 16:00:39 GMT -5
With normal bias ply motorcycle tyres, the pattern does not have to match. Wide, deep tread cuts (sipes?) crossways to the tire will enable bite and water expelling. What brands of tyres are easily available to you? Most makes like Continental, Michelin, Hedinau (if spelt right) Pirelli,Avon, Metzler, can't think of many more at present. |
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Post by milly on Aug 28, 2023 16:24:10 GMT -5
I see lots of the 18x2.75 size on eBay and Amazon. Google is down at the moment but a regular fat knobby bicycle tyre may work on the rear. Google came back up and I see many on eBay and Amazon, even walmart over on this side of the pond. Any tubeless tyre will take tubes. Back in ancient times many old codgers put tubes in their newfangled tubeless tyres because they did not trust them new idears. Many of them groused about not having solid stone wheels for their wagons to each other while chomping on their cee-gars and warming their hands by the damn cast iron stove that did not produce warmth like a proper fire.
BTW- I have spent many hours around 'proper' open fires, cast iron stoves, and gas stoves warming my hands..... I still have an old gas stove sitting in the corner of my basement that was new back in the latter 1800's. It needs some ceramic inserts. Maybe I should look for some and hook it back up for when the power is out in the winter.....
We have quite good roads round here so I reckon wooden wheels be better than stone for me. 😄 As for heating we av this ear new fangled air source which Yolanda won't let me touch the led panel on in case I bugger it up. Was happy in younger days with the old Rayburn or open fire in house's and in trailers/trucks/caravans small pot belly stoves for warmth but now collecting wood from the forestry/hedgerow is a thing of the past one being age and two the forestry sends all their pine to be pulped and turned into biomass pellets for the latest environmentalunatic idea to save the planet. They take 30 ton loads 60 miles away to pulp it then back empty being a logging lorry so no return loads then they take it further again back this way turn it into pellets and whatever they add to it to bind it the waste goes in a tank to be carted away as pollutants and happens to be close to a wild trout and wild salmon river and lo and behold they had a leak which killed a massive massive amount of trout salmon and all other stuff really f**ked the river eco system and had "experts" in on the company behalf who said nothing to see here and got a lenient fine. By the way 10 years later there's still bugger all to see no sea trout or salmon. Pike seems to have survived though by the sounds of it. I had a paraffin stove ( is that same as kerosene?) for the shed but that's expensive now. Was more expensive than petrol at some point. |
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 28, 2023 19:36:16 GMT -5
I have a paraffin/kerosene stove also but it is much more expensive than gasoline/petrol. Here in the US they are trying to convert every heater type device to electricity but that is really expensive and seems a terrible waste to me. There are big scare campaigns around to try to stop people using gas stoves.
The pellets are held together with an organic resin binder, -guess where that probably comes from.
Governments everywhere are massively corrupt.
George Orwell's 1984 is just arriving a little late, George got the date wrong. The PC police are trying to ban it in many places. I have a large collection of old science fiction. I would wager a good percentage of it would be banned by public libraries now.
Be a proper green person and chop down all the weeds by the road, bale them up, bring them home to dry in the back yard. Burn that biomass in the winter in an external boiler to provide steam heat for the house air source thingy. Capture the CO2 in water to make carbonic acid for home made soda pop.
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Post by jackrides on Aug 29, 2023 15:24:30 GMT -5
Yeah, it's hard to find. cmpo.co.uk has a front, rear is out if stock, maybethey can get one. The ribbed front with a patterned rear is a traditional combo. I logged Many miles on that. Going up a size on tires has never proved a problem to me. The old inch, or Imperial, sizes\ lableing seems to have gone away, in favor of metric or Alpha designations. Anyway, Front 18 x 2.75 is very close to 18 x 80/90, 90/90, MH90, or MJ90. Rear 16 x 3.50 is very close to 100/90, 110/90, MM/90, or MN/90. The numbers and letters describe the height and width either in mm or ratio. I can't keep the specifics straight, but if it is close on a bike like yours, it will work. The wheels were built for tubeless tyres, but a tube would work, just more trouble to mount.
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Post by Lucass2T on Aug 30, 2023 0:37:43 GMT -5
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