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  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 months
    What size were you running on the Rocket? 225?
    The Vic bagger feels best on 195 55s, a lot better than 205 50s, narrower the better I think, with as stiff a sidewall as you can find.
    I never did try a run flat, they're supposed to be good but hard to fit without a proper tyre machine. Because of the spoked wheel on the Vic I was running inner tubes and didn't want to make roadside puncture repairs any harder. That was part of the motivation to have the rim sealed and go tubeless, but I went back to bike tyres after that.
    Some of those old Swedish choppers with the monster wide car tyres looked good I reckon.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 months
    I had a 225 and then tried a 195. The 225 was difficult to ride even on a relatively neutral camber rd....introduce a camber and it was very difficult to stop it trying to head of in that direction. A good mate tried to ride it with the big tyre....he went straight out my driveway and up the neighbor drive, put the bike on the side stand and that was ride over for him. The smaller tyre was not only lighter but gave a slightly rounder profile on the 8 inch rim. All tyres ran tubeless.
  • beaglebasher
    beaglebasher
    3 months
    Any cunt that is dumb enough to put a car tyre on a motorbike deserves what they get.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 months
    Can't think what I got but 40,000 kms of good traction wet and dry from a total of 5 of them.
    Never got the life out of them that the yanks seem to, but Oz roads a different.
    Oh yeah, the fun of taking the piss out of amateur tyre engineers, who would tell you that it wouldn't go round corners, while we were standing on top of Mt Mee, or after outrunning them up the Perserverence dam road.
    Don't run them now.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    3 months
    "The Dark Side", it's up there with politics and religion lol
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 months
    And don't forget oil discussions...
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    3 months
    Lol, I like oil threads 😂
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 months
    Quoting obisteve on 04 Nov 2024 09:18 AM

    Can't think what I got but 40,000 kms of good traction wet and dry from a total of 5 of them.

    Never got the life out of them that the yanks seem to, but Oz roads a different.
    Oh yeah, the fun of taking the piss out of amateur tyre engineers, who would tell you that it wouldn't go round corners, while we were standing on top of Mt Mee, or after outrunning them up the Perserverence dam road.
    Don't run them now.

    I only tried the two and the downside was the chewing out of the fronts due to the constant countersteering required. Dont think i could push as hard on the car tyre than you did on one chase up the obi when you had yours on.....its not a good place to park it in the crash barrier heading up.  
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 months
    Well no crash barrier is a good place to park,  fortunately never done it.
    I stopped using them after deciding that the need for constant countersteering was giving me microslides in the front on the days when the council topdressed the Obi down road or the Suicide with greased bat shit, ran the water truck over it and knocked off for the day.
    And Politics and Religion? One of the Vic forums has that topic, looking in it's like lifting the lid on a septic tank, particularly at the moment. I reckon they'd be shooting each other if they lived closer. For all the posturing about freedom, they seem mighty upset when someone feels free to disagree with them.
    And given that Victories apparently sold best in the south and mid west, you can imagine which way the tide is running.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    3 months
    They do seem a tad divided.......
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    3 months
    Out on a back road somewhere.
    Sounds like a Lucinda Williams song.
    We've had a few violent electrical storms through in the evenings, dumping short bursts of heavy rain.
    A couple of blokes in my brigade got called out to a lighting strike started grassfire  only to watch it hammered out 10 minutes after they got there by hail, then torrential rain.
    Country is a lot greener, particularly along the Maronghi Creek flats, bit the creek is not really flowing yet.
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  • obisteve
    obisteve
    20 days ago
    Been a bit of mention on another thread of combined bike and rider age totals. A mate down south just let me know of his new bike that takes this to next level, as if his 1917 Excelsior wasn't enough.
    1912 Humber, with 2 speed planetary gears in the rear hub, for a total of 183 years.


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  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    20 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 02 Feb 2025 01:41 AM

    Been a bit of mention on another thread of combined bike and rider age totals. A mate down south just let me know of his new bike that takes this to next level, as if his 1917 Excelsior wasn't enough.

    1912 Humber, with 2 speed planetary gears in the rear hub, for a total of 183 years.


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    God i am but a spring chicken....2012 Street Glide and 64 in a few weeks gives me a total of 77yrs
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    19 days ago
    Lucky bastard!
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    10 days ago
    For all those who never wondered, this is a pic of the underneath of a Victory throttle body showing the adaptor that goes straight onto the down draught intakes on the heads. Very much like standard V8 practice. Twin 45mm bores in the throttle body.  The alloy adaptor is an aftermarket part, stock is a moulded silicone rubber. This is from a mates bike, he's had a bit of trouble with the stock rubber parts tearing, but he has Lloydz torque tubes fitted instead of the normal airbox, long tapered tubes that mount big K&N filters below the steering neck that curve over the engine and down through the throttle body. With appropriate tuning (Maximus or PC6) and dyno work, they bump up torque and power quite a bit. 
    My mate likes power. The other pic is of him driving his el Camino.


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