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8ender
Sep 24, 2003

clown is watching you sleep
I just want to say that for old bikes Cheng Shin used to offer almost exact matches for the original OEM tires and they were great tires. I'm greatly saddened by their exit from the tire market.

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8ender
Sep 24, 2003

clown is watching you sleep

frozenphil posted:

Am I crazy for not trusting the IRC tires that came stock on my bike? I haven't felt any reason to be concerned about the tires, but the Internet seems to believe I will die.

Thats really going to depend how hard you ride the bike. If you're planning on attacking the twisties at high speeds then you'll probably want to replace them but otherwise I wouldn't bother.

I have Cheng Shins on my bike and I have yet to reach the limits on them even with some pretty significant speeds on the corners. Then again my bikes handling setup was designed for tires (1970s bias ply Dunlops) that were probably worse than the Cheng Shins so that may factor into things.

8ender fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 30, 2009

8ender
Sep 24, 2003

clown is watching you sleep

Nerobro posted:

Say what? I have CST's on my bicycles. And CST tires on my moped. You sure they didn't just pick a new name?


Well now I can't find where I read that and I feel like a fool. Maybe it was just hearsay?

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