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Old Sep 4, 2007 | 11:36 PM
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Has anyone here ever seen a tire for the Sportster with a more "offroad" tread? I'd really like to hit up some of thenon-paved side roadswithout the constant fear of spinning out. Maybe something like a flat track tire, maybe?
 
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Old Sep 4, 2007 | 11:47 PM
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Today's tread designs are more user specific. You can find enduro treads but are designed for a bike that is duo oreinted. A Sportie is designed for standard road conditions. The enduro bikes have different shock rates and are built differently. You can use duo purpose treads on a Sportie, but it will handle like crap on the road. It just wasn't designed to do that.

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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 09:06 AM
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I'm looking for a more aggressive tread as well, hopefully someone will chime in here. At 5300 miles my rear tire needs to be replaced very bad.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 09:19 AM
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these are what i have on my flat tracker.


there are a ton out there, that would be useful for both.

Front
http://www.denniskirk.com/jsp/tpl/ti...fCatId=&mmyId=

Rear
http://www.denniskirk.com/jsp/tpl/ti...fCatId=&mmyId=
 
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