pegscraper Posted March 31, 2009 #1 Posted March 31, 2009 Last July the Federal rear CT with WWs was mounted. It has around 7000 miles on it so far. Today the Avon MT90HB-16 WW rear tire was mounted backwards on the front rim. The tread depth at the middle of the tire is .325". I'll be interested to see how many miles I get out of this tire. I got almost 23,000 miles out of my previous Avon front tire of the same size, and this tire has more rubber on it. Best of all, the new tire's WW width is 1 5/8" where the previous front tire's WW width was 1 1/4". I like WWs.
Mikealiasmike Posted March 31, 2009 #2 Posted March 31, 2009 This will be interesting to see how it turns out. I just installed a Dunlop 404 rear on the front of my RSTD but did not reverse it. Took it for a ride today but being the wind was blowing between 30-45 mph I could'nt get an accurate feel for it. I will say one thing, they needed to put counter weights on my front rim which I've never had B4... God bless. Mike Be SAFE
BigBoyinMS Posted March 31, 2009 #3 Posted March 31, 2009 Congrats guys. I still have about 8-10k to go on my front ME880 before I need to change. The PO gave it to me when I bought the bike and I installed it before I even started thinking about Darksiding.
FreezyRider Posted April 1, 2009 #4 Posted April 1, 2009 Last July the Federal rear CT with WWs was mounted. It has around 7000 miles on it so far. Today the Avon MT90HB-16 WW rear tire was mounted backwards on the front rim. The tread depth at the middle of the tire is .325". I'll be interested to see how many miles I get out of this tire. I got almost 23,000 miles out of my previous Avon front tire of the same size, and this tire has more rubber on it. Best of all, the new tire's WW width is 1 5/8" where the previous front tire's WW width was 1 1/4". I like WWs. So, am I blind??? Where's the PIX??? If you're gonna play the game you have to follow the rules, Lynn!!! Joe
pegscraper Posted April 1, 2009 Author #5 Posted April 1, 2009 Here it is. Pretty unexciting. Gotta love that WW though. The guy who installed this didn't bat an eye when I told him what I was doing. In fact, he told me something interesting about this subject. He said that many years ago, front and rear motorcycle tires used to be the same thing, and the tire would have one arrow pointing one way for rear usage, and another arrow pointing the other way for front usage. He added again that that was a long time ago. I had heard all the reasons for mounting the rear tire backwards, but was having trouble buying it and wondered whether I really wanted to run it backwards or not. But when he told me that, I was convinced. Backwards is the way to run a rear tire on the front rim.
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