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Old 05-25-2013, 11:13 PM
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Always remember...you can't put anything false on the internet.
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I think that my failed attempt at Darksiding was the tire I used. I believe if I'd have used one of the tires that have previously been used I'd have liked it better...or if I closed the rim to go tubeless...
I'm willing to try it again using an ulterior method.
 
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Old 05-26-2013, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by terryrh
Always remember...you can't put anything false on the internet.
...I learned that on the internet.


He is right you know!!


I think that my failed attempt at Darksiding was the tire I used. I believe if I'd have used one of the tires that have previously been used I'd have liked it better...or if I closed the rim to go tubeless...
I'm willing to try it again using an ulterior method.
I am going to DS on the '12 FLHTC when I need a new tire. I like it and I'm gonna do it.
 
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Old 05-26-2013, 08:55 AM
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I too will try it eventually...I only have at this time 1 choice. The Austone Taxi tire...Use to be able to get the Vredestein but it's very elusive right now...The Austone looks to have a nice profile and the sides fairly tapered...
 
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Old 05-26-2013, 09:02 AM
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The Austone Taxi tire.....
....made for London taxis! I suppose if you only ever travel around in city traffic.....
 
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Old 05-26-2013, 09:06 AM
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....made for London taxis! I suppose if you only ever travel around in city traffic.....
If it can handle that it can surely handle me very well...
 
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Old 05-26-2013, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Notgrownup
If it can handle that it can surely handle me very well...
It's gonna keep pulling you over to the other side of the road though
(yeah, that's the best I got...had many beers today at pig roast )
 
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DarkSide all the way baby! Michelin Hydro Edge 205/55-16 on an 09 FLHTCU and I'm never going back. Rode it for the first time last night, went to work this morning. Stop and go in Denver, WFO once I got up north tonight on the way home. Too easy. The sky ain't falling people.

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Originally Posted by Mark5
I am going to DS on the '12 FLHTC when I need a new tire. I like it and I'm gonna do it.
Me to! I am going back to a car tire when the stock is shot on my 2013 FLHTC.

Had a 2011 RK and went darkside on that. Really liked it especially when I had to brake hard for deer or Oscar and Minnie Grope in their belch fire 8. Oscars blind ya know.

Never had any probs with the handling. Different but not bad even on gravel and tar snakes. Could run 90s with no probs and at 68yrs that's fast enough.

If you don't want to do it don't if you do do it.

Oh and for some reason my ds tire held air better than the OE did??

I am going back!

Balanced with 3oz DYNA BEADS. Two oz in front. Worked great.
 
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Old 06-16-2013, 07:39 AM
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I like to suggest RideOn since I've started running it; it took care of some lateral imbalance in the Austone where beads didn't. I'm getting some for the front too; had a front flat recently and the beads did balance out the plug, but lost a lot of the crew to stick to it. We never would have had to stop if I'd had the RideOn in it. It balances same as beads too.
 


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