Where do you guys buy your tyres?

Any good mail order places worth checking for good price/product?

In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:55:48 +1100
Raticus <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Where do you guys buy your tyres?

Chivos usually.

>
> Any good mail order places worth checking for good price/product?

I'm too lazy to fit my own...


Zebee

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:18:19 +1100
Jordan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>> I'm too lazy to fit my own...
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>> Zebee
>
> I gather many bikes have tubeless tyres now?
> Otherwise you'd need to remove them for repair of punctures.
> In which case fitting your own tyres is good practice, if not the most
> pleasant task.

BY the side of the road means you have to carry fairly solid tyre
levers and appropriate patches. Some say you can't use glue ones on
motorcycle tyres, they get too hot, you have to vulcanise them.

Me, on the tubed bikes I either sacrifice the tube and use the foam
goo to get me home, or I remove the wheel and hitch hike.

Used both methods, both work. The goo stuff is not all that good at
keeping the tyre inflated so not great for major highway work, the
hitch hike method is chancy. But one or the other is more to my
ability than hoiking a tyre off Borrani rims and getting it back on
again.

Zebee