phat tire on a goldwing

[6jugzz]

my brother has a 03 gw, he wants to put a phat tire on the rear,maybe the briges 200 battleaxe, anybody know if it will fit??

[sandy]

There are folks who put car tires on Wings. http://gl1800riders.com/forums/forums.php Ask on this board for a better answer.

[AussieValk]

I know a bloke who put a Goodyear F1 195/50 on his and he said it was a tight fit.

[Disco]

I don't know if this is phat    but there is no need to go fat.  I'm running a Dunlop Winter Tread Run Flat in 175/60-16.  It's my first darkside experience - and I was very leery - but I have experienced none of the negatives I've read about CTs.  I'd bet that, without prior knowledge, a darkside skeptic could ride it and never know something is different.  The only time I've felt the rear "hunt" for its line was on a road so irregular that any tire would have had some personality.  It has almost 7,000 miles on it and looks almost new.  Nice, after getting 7,000 out of the OEM Bridgestone.  1-up and cruising, 2-up and loaded, city, country, interstate, TX hill country, CO rockies on the way to and from InZane IX, it's unbelievable. 

Another option that people seem to like is the Continental Vanco in 195/60-16, but 1) it appears that tire has been discontinued, and 2) it rubs the swingarm for the first 1,000 mile, or so.

[Farther]

I don't know if this is phat    but there is no need to go fat.  I'm running a Dunlop Winter Tread Run Flat in 175/60-16. 

  Sounds more like skinny and short to me.

[Disco]

Sounds more like skinny and short to me.

I'm not trying to convert anyone - I'm running a Cobra rear on the Valkyrie.  That said, its overall width is obviously a whopping 5mm narrower, but the contact patch is much wider when compared to stock.  The tread is more rounded than most CTs, it's deeply siped, and it requires no additional steering inputs in turns.  And, if my math is correct, its radius is only 3mm shorter when new - probably not now if you compared it to an oem with 7,000 miles on it - and not much of an exacerbation of the oem speedometer error.  

Am I going back to a motorcycle tire on the 'wing?  No  

Am I going darkside on the Valkyrie?  TBD    If only they made one in 195...