190 tire on 99 RR?

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Dec 23, 2002 | 04:09 AM

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Re: I dare you!

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Originally posted by Ahigh
NAGS:
I think the bigger front tire should help steer a little in the beginning. But there's a couple of other things too. One is that the braking tireforce from a given set of brakes (braking torque) is reduced due to the bigger rim. This should only matter when trying to initially get it up though.

I don't know from experience. I only know from listening to Kyle and Brock from XXX talk about it. Considering they are doing 600ft stoppies on RR's... I'm gonna trust whatever they say when it comes to stoppies.