Any thoughts about running Car Tires On The Rear?

[Peter Aawen]

Educate me?

A reminder to All - Do not 'out' dealers or any other tire fitters for fitting non-OEM tires onto your Spyders/Rykers on the public pages of the Forum, if you must share, do it via DM!

This is post #18 in this thread, just a few posts up...

Just remember that in the past, when dealers have been 'outed' by a member posting here on the Forum that their dealer has fitted 'non-Kenda' tires onto Spyders &/or Rykers, they have frequently been either castigated by BRP for doing this and as a result will no longer do that for anyone else/ever again; or for whatever reason (which may or may not be related to said 'outing' ) they have very soon after ceased to sell or service Spyders at all! (could it be that they had been been dumped by BRP?! ) Even some 'non-dealer tire fitters' who've been 'outed' on the Forum have had 'the heavies' (not necessarily BRP or even specified/identified... ) visit/serve notice upon them that they'd better not do anything like that again!

And even if you don't specifically identify the dealer/tire fitter by name in this instance, if you have EVER included ANY unique identifiers &/or location details anywhere on the internet/social media in any of your posts, then you may as well have sent a formal letter to the World 'outing' these people, or maybe just posted your dealer's/the tire fitter's location in neon lights on every street corner in the country!

So please, if your dealer/tire fitter is kind enough/customer focused enough to fit a non-OEM approved/tire of your choice onto your Spyder/Ryker, ie, anything that is not an OEM Kenda/clone/derivative, then please, be smart enough and and kind enough to the dealer and all members here, and do NOT potentially screw that dealer over by publishing anything about them doing this here - EVER! - if you must share that sort of 'this dealer/tire fitter put a/mkt tires on my Spyder/Ryker' info with others, don't do it on the public pages, do it via DM!

Just Sayin!

 

[Mtn Spyder]

I am on my third General Altimax, and on the first two of them I replaced them early because I didn't want to be on the far side of beyond on a long tour and have the tour upended because I couldn't find another Altimax (Wally World can solve that problem) and, most important, a BRP dealership that would install a car tire AND check the belt tension with a Gates meter every time the wheel is removed the way the Spyder tech at the original dealership does.

I have a 2019 RT, tire size 225/50R15. I can't find the Altimax in that size. Where do you order them from or are you using a different size?

TireRack has Bridgestones in my size?

 

[Snoking1127]

I have a 2019 RT, tire size 225 50 15. Can't find the Altimax in that size. Where do order them from or are you using a different size?

TireRack has Bridgestones in my size?

215/60R15 Altimax works fine and corrects the speedo a bit. I was off 2 mph at 65 and is now off 1 mph.

 

[Mtn Spyder]

Thanks Snoking, that was my conclusion after more research, change to 225/60.

 

[RayBJ]

If you ride in the rain at speed, consider getting the narrower rear tire to reduce hydroplaning.

 

[Peacekeeper6]

I just replaced the stock Kenda OEM rear tire on my F3-S with a Toyo Proxes car tire. The Kenda was worn out in the middle at 22,000 miles. The dealer says it was because I ran it at too high a pressure. I ran it at 30 lbs which I thought was the correct spec. Any thoughts about the Toyo car tire and tire pressure? Thanks

My next rear tire WILL be a car tire.

I am more of a Michelin, Continental, Pirelli fan boi, so I'm going to have to research this, but not for another 10k miles or so.

 

[Peter Aawen]

My next rear tire WILL be a car tire.

I am more of a Michelin, Continental, Pirelli fan boi, so I'm going to have to research this, but not for another 10k miles or so.

We can't readily get the Vredesteins or Altimax tires over here in South Oz, so I've been running an XM&S Michelin tire on the rear of my 2013 Spyder for a while now, very successfully (but sadly, it's a 205 size that's no longer available here in Oz, and I suspect the same applies over there in the US too... ), and for long enough to have done quite a few miles on it in a wide range of conditions, from melting bitumen; thru a wide range of bitumen, dirt, and gravel; to toad drowning wet roads of sundry and varied surfaces, covering more miles during that time than many over your way seem to struggle to do on their Spyders before they 'upgrade' them, let alone replace their worn out tires, and it's still got lotsa good tread and performance left in it!

I've also fitted a variety of Continental & Pirelli tires to various Spyders and tested them on the track, a skid pan, & a brake test track; usually doing at least 1000 miles of testing on them before giving them a tick of approval - and I reckon you could do a whole lot worse than picking any of them!

 

[iSilentP]

I have the General Altimax RT45 225/60R15. I bought different stock size because the lager size aligned my on-board speedometer with the (actual speed) GPS system. Prior, the bike's speedometer was always a bit faster than the real speed - the /60R profile fixed that.