30-12-13, 02:26 PM
(30-12-13, 03:20 AM)midden link Wrote: You're not bloody wrong there mate.
If he's lucky, the rim will be 4 inches and it'll therefore take a 150/60, so he could also get the BT-090 in those sizes.
To be honest though, probably be a lot easier looking to try and find a 17 inch wheel that'd fit in (I suspect ZXR400 would be minimal work), and then raise the ride height a bit to compensate!
Surely the easiest and probably safest option would be to just buy a tyre to fit the wheel rather than a wheel to fit the tyre.
Well usually yes, but the rear wheel size he's got is a very, very old odd one, and there's very, very few choices in that as noone has that size 18 inch wheels on a bike any more!
Only one I could find, apart from a bunch of shinko plastic jobbies were bridgestones rather old BT-092s, whereas if he swapped to a 17 inch rear as with every other modern bike, he'd have a huge choice of tyres.
Only difference really would be he'd then have to raise the ride height a bit to compensate for the smaller wheel, which is an extremely common mod on most older 400cc bikes (lot of the older Hondas had an 18 inch rear too as standard)