Tips on Motorcycle Tire Maintenance
THE MOST IMPORTANT MOTORBIKE MAINTENANCE YOU CAN PERFORM
Even if you are not mechanically inclined, routinely checking the pressure of your motorcycle tires is something that needs to be included as part of your riding experience.
You can have your local dealer handle most of the other service items for your bike, but you need to check [...]
Motorcycle Tire Tips on Matching Front and Rear Sets
MATCHING FRONT AND REAR MOTORCYCLE TIRES MEANS GREATER HANDLING AND STABILITY
OK, just to be sure we’re considering the obvious, you need to buy motorcycle tires in matching sets. Motorbike tires are designed by manufacturers to work together as a front and rear team to give you maximum performance.
Here are a few tire tips [...]
Motorcycle Tire Tubes
OUR LIFE-SUPPORTING MOTORBIKE INNER TUBES
With the advent of tubeless motorcycle tires, fewer bikes use inner tubes than in the past. However, there are still plenty of on- and off-road bikes that do use them. Motorcycle inner tubes act like a balloon inside of our tires. Maintaining the correct air pressure inside our tubes [...]
Continental Tires and Those German Engineering Roots
CONTINENTAL TIRES FOR MOTORBIKES
Continental (Conti for short), is one more mega company that makes tires for riders all over the world. And just because that didn’t keep them busy enough, they also make auto brake systems, vehicle stability control systems, engine injection systems, as well as other parts for the automotive industries. Conti is [...]
Bridgestone Motorbike Tires
FOUR FUNCTIONS OF MOTORCYCLE TIRES
Motorcycle tires need to perform four functions:
1) Support the motorcycle
2) Transmit traction and braking forces to the surface
3) Absorb surface shocks
4) Maintain and change travel direction
Over the years, tire manufacturers have continued to improve the performance of those characteristics, all in pursuit of a better - and safer - rider [...]
Avon Tyres (Whose Gonna Teach Them Brits How To Spell?)
AVON TYRES: “MADE IN ENGLAND”
Regardless of how you spell “tires,” Avon makes ‘em. And they’ve been doing it a long time.
This company has its British roots going back to 1885, although it was actually in 1904 when they started churning out tyres for cars and motorbikes, vans and trailers.
Since then Avon has proven itself [...]
The Dark Side of Digital Tire Gauges
Why I Don’t Like Digital Tire Gauges
Let’s be clear: I’m not a guy who hates technology. In fact, I welcome the improvements it brings to life. For example, I pack much more compact photo equipment on my motorcycle trips than I did in the past, and I can more readily share and reproduce [...]
Pirelli Motorcycle Tires: Italian-Bred Motosport Rubber
Pirelli Motorbike Tires
Tire manufacturer, PIRELLI, is a big name in the motorcycle racing world. The company is based in Milan, Italy, and has been around since 1872, when it was founded by Giovanni Battista Pirelli.
Additionally, they make tires for cars. No surprise there, as for most motorbike tire manufacturers, the automobile world is their [...]
Motorcycle Tire Repair Kits: Hoping To Never Need One
No Motorcycle Tire Repair Kit?
The benefits of motorcycle riding are obvious to even those that do not ride: A sense of unrestricted freedom.
The disadvantages of riding are just as obvious to those that do not ride: A lack of protection from the elements and particularly a lack of protection in the event of a [...]
Tires for Harley Davidson
Harley Davidson Motorcycle Tires
Check out the link below for whitewall and blackwall (but not too many off-the-wall) motorcycle tires, including Michelin and Dunlop (and others), for your HARLEY DAVIDSON.
If you’re into whitewall motorcycle tires, you may want to visit this link for a little history of whitewall tires.
(Whitewalls can offer a more classic look [...]
Michelin Motorcycle Tires: Like a Fine French Wine
Michelin Motorcycle Tires: Born in France
Ahh, the French. Famous for great wine, word-class food, fine art and Michelin motorcycle tires. Well, actually, probably more folks in France (and elsewhere in the world) are more aware of Michelin automobile tires, but only because they have not been personally enlightened to the finer pleasures of two [...]
Motorcycle Racing Slicks: Don’t Wear These Tires at Home
Motorcycle Racing Slicks (Racing and Track Day Only)
There are LOTS of motorcycle tires in the world. But among the most unique are that aggressive and highly competitive breed of MOTORCYCLE RACING SLICKS.
Racing slick tires are, as the name denotes, for racing (or for track days).
These tires are NOT made for street riding. Not [...]
Metzeler Motorcycle Tires: More Mature Than You and I
Metzeler Motorcycle Tires
Metzeler has been making motorcycle tires for longer than the combined years that you and I have both been riding. (And I’ve been rockin’ and rolling on motorbikes since about the time the Rolling Stones unleashed “Gimme Shelter” to the world).
As one of the industry’s most mature motorcycle tire makers,
METZELERhas been [...]
Dunlop Motorcycle Tires: Made in Buffalo, NY
Dunlop Motorcycle Tires
Dunlop makes motorbike tires for high-performance/sport bikes, touring bikes, sport-touring motorcycles, off-road machines, dual-sport bikes, tires for desert riding, OEM tires, tires for Harley-Davidson, tires for scooter and vintage bikes as well as racing tires, trials tires and even tires for 4-wheel vehicles (go figure!).
In short, Dunlop makes a lot of MOTORCYCLE TIRESfor [...]
Nitrogen Tire Filling System
Why Nitrogen for Tires?
As more and more drivers and bikers are looking for nitrogen to fill their car and/or motorcycle tires, should you get a NITROGEN TIRE FILLING SYSTEM for your shop?
Nitrogen has been used to inflate aircraft tires to minimize expansion and contraction as a result of extreme changes in ambient temperature and pressure [...]
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