Short report on new Dunlop K70 tires

[e3steve]

Well I, for one, am dead envious that Gold Seal K70s are still made in 19" but not 18"!

Steve,

The K70 is available in 4.00-18 if you are talking about shodding a Brit bike. They make 3.25 and 3.50-19 tires for the front and 4.00-18 for the rear.

regards,
Rob

4.00 is a tad OTT! I'd attempt 3.00 for the front and 3.25 or even 3.50 for the rear; anything else would look ridiculous and probably render the handling pretty poor; not to mention getting them under the fenders....

[mike horvath]

The images of G-Man's post look great which is the look I'm in for. Those tires are mounted on the stock rims, and are the K70 series were talking about here? 3.25/3.50x19.
Thanks

[teazer]

Back in the day, K70 were the stock tires fitted to all/most British bikes. They were relatively cheap and worked OK under most road conditions. I have no idea what compound they make them out of now, but there are stickier tires if you want performance.

For an old school look they are spot on

[Snakeoil]

Mike PM'd me about front fender clearance with 3.25-19 K70 mounted. Here's a couple of pics of that tire on my '67 CL77. Plenty of room. It had a 3.25 Yokahama on it when I got it. Tire was like new, tread-wise, but the side wall was splitting from age.

regards,
Rob

[mike horvath]

Thanks Rob,
It certainly does look nice, and clearances appear good. Now we gotta wait for the finished product huh?

[Snakeoil]

I'm really not doing a resto. It's a spruce up. PO did a quasi-resto on the bike, his way. Painted some stuff that was chrome because it was in his mind ugly. I stripped the paint off some parts and probably would have polished them and left them original. Too late now. I did bite the bullet and sent the rear grap rail to Browns for replating. I painted the lower shock covers black. He had painted them silver and they look crummy that way. Black is not correct but looks more correct. This engine runs well, but smokes a bit. Will run it this summer and see how it goes. PO repainted the tank and side covers a darker silver. I think it might have been a correct color as I understand there were two silvers. He did go with a single step paint so no clear which is correct. The bikes were not very shiny as they came from Honda. It has a very nice new seat cover done correctly. But he did not blast and paint the pan first. Don't understand that thinking.

It will be a nice runner that I can always make better by finding parts here and there as time passes. If I ever make it perfect again, hopefully I'll have built a new house by then with special places for my vintage bikes to reside in my golden years.

regards,
Rob

[geosar]

Those rims are really beautiful Rob.

Got my zinc, vinegar etc so on to the spruce-up.

George