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Offline RRSTL3

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Tire size
« on: May 28, 2024, 01:10:32 PM »
The tire size printed on the sidewall of the original tire is ?MU90B16?. I have been to several shops in the area, and each says that size isn?t available any longer.  Is there an equivalent metric size?
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Re: Tire size
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2024, 03:29:33 PM »
I've got MU85R16 on the back of 525. Looks very stock to me. And its a dunlop
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Re: Tire size
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2024, 04:41:47 PM »
MU = 140. Plenty of MU80 and 140/80 tires out there. 2coolwheels and others have managed to install 150s as well, though I thought Jumper said they might rub on the belt guard or something.
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Re: Tire size
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2024, 06:46:33 AM »

I run 150's on all my bikes...as far as belt guard ...gone !!!
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Re: Tire size
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2024, 11:17:44 PM »
Thanks for all of the advise. I followed Bruce?s lead and went with MU85 Dunlop American Elite. Looks great!
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Re: Tire size
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2024, 06:01:55 PM »
When I got 525, the guard was rubbing at 1500 miles. We purchased 3 more bikes thru the next few years. They all rubbed. Best I can figure, is that the plastic/vinyl cured, and moved.
I don't know where any of them are (I may still have them... just don't know where). But I can attest, I have rolled a couple of big rocks around my rear sprocket. One was so big it cracked my sprocket.
You know how it is here in the flat lands..... Paving still hasn't been invented.
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