120 front tyre woes

[reillypadraig]

Just got my cousins bike for saint Patrick's day parade, he wanted me to being it tru the parade today and tomorrow, but the front tyre is 120 and the difference is diabolical, is too sensible on small movements and fairly smooth on twistys but you have to force the counter steer more than my own 110 tyre, any helpful tips on reducing the sensitivity on the small movements? Or anyone have a 120 on there front? It's a street fighter front and horrible bars and the clutch and brake are angled too far down and hard to reach levers, also when I brought it home yesterday the handles were loose and the lights keep blowing, but I don't mind, only have it for 2 days. Very smooth carb but more power in my own, have competition only viper end can and standard exhaust down pipes, far rather my own, rear hugger belly pan, no fender extender ok front and double lights wired to the front

I think that's where the light problem is, only had the bike down the road 10 minutes and the lights went, replaced the fuse with a 15 (hadn't a 20) but revved the bike and it blew, so put in a 30 and it blew the starter relay fuse so the bike just conked and wouldn't start so I replace the 30 on the starter and left no fuse in the lights, he has a short somewhere in the lights,

I will never say that my bike is dangerous on the road ever again because this one is a nightmare

[Ben600]

I ran a 120 front on my FZS600, I found it paid to drop the forks through the yokes by about 50mm.  I much prfer the 120 fron, and the reason being it makes for a nice ride and less chance of rolling off the edge of the tyre (as I did on a 110).

[Fazbaz]

I've always used a 120/70 profile tyre on my Fazers.... I'd raised the back end ( a bit ) and dropped the front forks through the yokes by 12mm. This made the bike handle well 

Bearing in mind that the steering angle of the bike matches a Ducatti 916, you'd have to have the skills of a MotoGP rider to cope with a 50mm drop..... It would be really twitchy and the ground clearance would be severely reduced.... I think Ben is winding you up just a bit 

Baz 

[packie]

he has a short somewhere in the lights,

.......maybe the short is somewhere else!! 

[Ben600]

Ben was too tired.. should have been 40mm / 4cm . ground clearance wasn't affected really and I loved it.

[reillypadraig]

Wel it handles like a sausage at the minute,

Ill make sure to tell him to drop the forks at his own peril haha