Thinking about running a 150 rear tire on my 98 Road King. I read up on the Pingel and a Cycle Vision spacers, and just wanted some feedback from anyone who's actually used them and successfully mounted a 150 rear tire. Is it possible without too much headache? Or should I just stick with the 140 or mu85? Thanks!

 

[ I don't think it's possible to do a 150 tire and still have proper belt alignment with the original 1 1/2" belt. I installed a BDL 1" poly chain with a new rear pulley and a 15/16" spacers, it all came in their kit but I had to machine the spacer to 13/16" to achieve the proper alignment not just the belt but the wheel center line as well. Then I was able to install a 150 tire and still had 5/16" between the belt and tire . The kit was around $420 with shipping. It definitely looks better don't have a pic but it does fill the fender better.

 

It is possible with the stock belt, see White Bike and rear tire.

Tires are offset from the factory and you must have it dead nuts in the center of the fender to fit in the fender, it will only have a paper thin clearance on each side so you need to remove the fender fastening mounts, grind some material off, it widens the fender some or stretch it open further.

Used the Pingle pulley space, it was a 1/8" to move the tire to center, will need some axle spacers to fill the 1/8" difference BUT here comes the fun part, can't move the brake caliper over 1/8" so it takes removing 1/8" from the caliper bracket to keep it in the same spot but then the rotor bolts hit it, need to track the rotation of the bolts on the bracket, clearance it and done.

Can use the small belt but won't make a difference if you can't fit the tire in the fender, use whichever eye is precision at that time for fitment. Sometimes cool looks more simple than anyone imagines.

 

depends on the tire....i wouldn't do it with a belt (I'm running a 530 chain, and I've got MAYBE 1/8" clearance chain-to-tire)

1/4-5/16" fender to tire clearance sounds about right...its definitely tight (I'm running an avon cobra, which IIRC measures out a bit wider than 150mm)

why 150? in theory it'll turn slower than with the 130. I did it for traction (140ish ft/lb of torque is tough on the 130, figured i'd try out a bit more rubber to see if it'd hook up better....seems to have worked)

 

Well, I've decided to stick with a size closer to stock. Bought a Metzler MU85 88--whitewall, of course, so I have to buy a new white wall front soon (in spite of my current one being relatively new)

Here's the impaled tire:



Here's the new Metzeler:


Turns out I also have tubeless wheels. Gotta love the PO!!!

 

Yep, that's impaled!

 

don't let TD see those WW's he will give you hell for the greasy finger prints

 

I don't think I've EVER managed to do that to a tire before--looks like someone was trying to kill me.. LOL!

Oh, it bother me just to think about it, and I kicked myself for using the same oily gloves I used to remove the old wheel... They'll get sanitized before mounting in the morning, at which point I will also capitalize on the opportunity and shine up the rest of the wheel.

By the way, Fooking Tires Are Fooking Expensive!

 

those extra spokes look good as well (80's?)

 

Yup. 80's. Again, my hat's off to the PO.

Makes 'em heavy, though...