tires

jwood · Apr 28, 2014

I put Shinkos on mine last year and LOVE THEM! Got caught in the rain last summer and had to brake hard, the tires held the road great!

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gamorg02 · Apr 28, 2014

Brepins said:
I just got a pair of shinkos today, I'm gonna try to swap this week seeing how its supposed to rain. the tires on it now are dunlops did vmax's come with dunlap originally?
Should I also replace wheel bearings?
Bike is a 2005 w/ 16k mile's I bought it used last year.
thanks for any info

Brian

Not sure if you know but I do tire changing!

I had an ad here but I can't find it. I'll repost it shortly!

Brepins · Apr 29, 2014

gamorg02 said:
Not sure if you know but I do tire changing!

I had an ad here but I can't find it. I'll repost it shortly!

I got your PM I'll try to figure out how to respond...thanks for info I do have a shop to swap tires about 200 yards away although I'm not sure what he'll charge. I work in a machine shop and we have made custom parts for him sometimes cheap sometimes free and he fixed my old taillight for free last year so I"ll give him a shot. if he screws up I'll let you know.
And again thanks to all who posted info the tire swap is going easy. Just finish taking tires off didn't even take an hour would have gone faster but I had 2 beer breaks.

gamorg02 · Apr 30, 2014

Brepins said:
I got your PM I'll try to figure out how to respond...thanks for info I do have a shop to swap tires about 200 yards away although I'm not sure what he'll charge. I work in a machine shop and we have made custom parts for him sometimes cheap sometimes free and he fixed my old taillight for free last year so I"ll give him a shot. if he screws up I'll let you know.
And again thanks to all who posted info the tire swap is going easy. Just finish taking tires off didn't even take an hour would have gone faster but I had 2 beer breaks.

200 yards, i don't blame ya at all!

Brepins · May 2, 2014

Well tire's are on, took a cruise around town they feel much more grippier
... 1 pic is of old tire and taillight before last years quabbin ride where twistedmax inspired me to destroy my tire there is zero tread left, was a tad slick in rain, as seen in pic with new taillight. and the last pic is new shinko which has 3/8 tread....for now and my feet don't tough as much of the ground as before. I think today I'll take a longer ride head up to chickenbone in Framingham for some chicken and sexyfries.
Thanks for all help
Brain

gamorg02 · May 2, 2014

Brepins said:
Well tire's are on, took a cruise around town they feel much more grippier
... 1 pic is of old tire and taillight before last years quabbin ride where twistedmax inspired me to destroy my tire there is zero tread left, was a tad slick in rain, as seen in pic with new taillight. and the last pic is new shinko which has 3/8 tread....for now and my feet don't tough as much of the ground as before. I think today I'll take a longer ride head up to chickenbone in Framingham for some chicken and sexyfries.
Thanks for all help
Brain

How funny, just ran into Brian at the shopping plaza.

-garrett