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Laury
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Tires for my XV920RH
09.06.09 at 04:41:59
 
I'm writing from the US where where only the most knowledgeable are aware of a Yamaha V-twin that's NOT a Virago.
The information that I need is probably in here somewhere, but I am apologetically monolingual in English.  I never imagined in my German I class that I would one day have use for the language to maintain a Japanese manufactured motorcycle.

I have owned since new an early XV920RH.  Several other bikes have come and gone in the interim, but the 920 is a constant.  While doing some mildly spirited riding recently, it became apparent that the handling might be might well be improved by replacing the old-but-not-worn-out rubber with a pair of new generation sport-touring tires.
Any recommendations of brands, models and sizes would be greatly appreciated.  

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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #1 - 09.06.09 at 10:10:09
 
There are three good tires for the TR1: Bridgestone BT45, Bridgestone BT45, and Bridgestone BT45.

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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #2 - 09.06.09 at 21:10:34
 
.............but I thought I needed only two tires.

Thanks, Georg.  I am giving the BT45s serious consideration.

In looking at Bridgestone product information, I find a 120/90-18 V-rated rear tire.  At the speeds I ride, the the high speed rating is superfluous, but the H-rated tire is a 120/80 which I assume would not be correct.  The 19" tires listed are 100/90-19 in both H and V.  Does this size fit properly on the MT1.85-19 rim?

 
 
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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #3 - 10.06.09 at 09:55:02
 
It's always a god idea to have one in reserve... Wink

100/90-19 and 120/90-18 are the right dimensions. You don't nee the speed index V, that's right, but i think they do not cost very much more than the H-rated tyres...

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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #4 - 10.06.09 at 20:54:13
 
Hi Laury,
i'm at one with Georg concerning the BT45.
You can also use the BRIDGESTONE BT45F 3.25-19 54 H TL
instead of 100/90-19 57 H or V.
Besides usually the 3.25 ist less expensive than the 100/90.

good luck and have fun    Smiley
Alex


 
 
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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #5 - 10.06.09 at 21:16:35
 
Thank you Georg and Alex.  
I find that I can have the pair of V-rated BT45s delivered to me for <$200.00 so it seems like the right thing to do.

 
 
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Re: Tires pressure for same tyres
Reply #6 - 20.07.09 at 14:28:55
 
Hey guy's what tyre pressure do you run in these tyres for general 110-120kph solo riding?

Kero

 
 
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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #7 - 10.08.09 at 16:06:58
 
I'm a bit late, I suspect, into this party.  I've posted a similar question this afternoon. I'd agree that BT45s are good, having had them on a Suzuki GS650GT and a Yam XS650.  But!  I've heard some good things about the new Avon AM26 Roadriders.  With tyre (sorry, tire - we must make allowances for our colonial cousins... Wink) technology moving constantly forward, and the Avons being a considerably newer design, logic suggests that they might be the equal, or even the superior, of the Bridgestone.  Oh for the olden days, when the only tyre (sorry, tire... what the heck; we invented the darned language!  Tyre!) to have if you ever took a corner - apart from nothing Japanese, of course, was the Pirelli Phantom!  Now that was a great looking tyre, and very sticky as well.  I wonder how they'd compare nowadays...?

 
 
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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #8 - 11.08.09 at 09:36:30
 
Quote from Glugskiclumfum on 10.08.09 at 16:06:58:
I wonder how they'd compare nowadays...?


They would just be terrible, to be quite frank with you... Pirelli re-issued a few hundred Phantoms one or two years back and it was dreadful.

Maybe "back then" not everything was better...  Roll Eyes

 
 

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Re: Tires for my XV920RH
Reply #9 - 12.08.09 at 12:22:17
 
Funny how perceptions change.  It's a bit like bikes themselves.  Way back in the dim and distant past, the Triumph Bonneville was the dog's wotsits, with magazine tests banging on about 'arm-stretching acceleration'.  Then in the seventies we had the Honda CB750, which 're-wrote the book' on performance.  then came the Suzuki GS1000 and the Kwak GPZ900R, which are both now called 'slow', when compared to the latest tackle.  I'm rather glad I decided early on to opt out of the horsepower race, preferring to take the Rolls-Royce view - 'sufficient' is, er, sufficient.  TR1s rule!  Back on topic: anyone have any experience of the Dunlop Arrowmax GT501?

 
 
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