What size were you running on the Rocket? 225?

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.

Any cunt that is dumb enough to put a car tyre on a motorbike deserves what they get.

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

"The Dark Side", it's up there with politics and religion lol

And don't forget oil discussions...

Lol, I like oil threads 😂

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.  

Well no crash barrier is a good place to park,  fortunately never done it.

They do seem a tad divided.......

Out on a back road somewhere.

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.

God i am but a spring chicken....2012 Street Glide and 64 in a few weeks gives me a total of 77yrs

Lucky bastard!

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. 

"Off overseas for 5 weeks riding in the sunshine"

Me too.... Was in Laos for 4 weeks in April and did a fair bit of riding. Back there again in 15 days :)

Picked this up the other day, brand new ie: unmolested by anyone.

If it's the 1050, they are a sweet little V-twin ( as you would know, based on the TL1000S ).
Good balance of torque and power .
Never ridden the new generation, but it would be very capable .

Yes mate, latest generation 1050.