The Never Ending Refurbishing of a Dream

[Sascha]

So, I know you are looking for whitewalls so check out the firestone whitewalls I have on mine... Got them from Coker tire.



_MG_0339 by RustyOlive, on Flickr

-Sascha

[clarenceada]

If you get the 100/90's, let us know how they do.[unquote]


Got the tire from Motorcycle Superstore, in two days; pretty fast shipping:




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It is wider than I hoped, the old tire was 3.5 in. and the new 4.25 in.:



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also the white wall is too big for the tire as there is not much sidewall:




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It's a tight fit for the front fender (don't know how much you can tell by this pic) also it may get a little narrower once it's mounted on the wheel:




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The sidewall on the Sport Demon is very stiff, almost could be used as a run flat tire! The old nitto is more like a biycycle tire and it's no wonder that it was so disatorous when you had a flat with one of these at high speed:




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The Pirelli is standard equipment on some faster "sport scooters" (if that isn't an oxymoron) and I was hoping it would improve the handing and high speed stability (all that mass has to have some gyroscopic influence---much heavier than the Nitto) so I'm going to mount it on the black Dream (sans white wall) and see if I can get it to fit.




Clarence

[brewsky]

Thanks for the detailed report!

The whitewall looks to me like it may fit if the tire itself isn't too wide.