Darkside rear for Yamaha 950

Ok, help me. I am ready to try the Dark Side. My rear tire and bike have 7000 miles and the tire is showing the wear . The size is 170/70b 16., rim - 16x4.50. I tried the sizing chart but it would not come up. A little help on size ,brand,type..... I am new so be nice. Thank You

looks like a 175/70-16 would be within 1% of your stock tire, but I am not having much luck finding one. A little more info about how much clearance you have width and height wise would help trying to locate a suitably sized tire...

try tire calc at the bottom you can type in the MC tire size and anything around it in a CT size. such as a mc tire will be 170, 180 ect and ct's are in 175, 185, ect... the second number is an aspect ratio to the first number, so if you wanna keep the same height and you increase the 1st number, decrease the second... play around with that keeping in mind your clearance and what is available in ct sizes...

hope that makes sense and is useful.

Thanks for the info,still looking for size on ct, have found some that will fit 16" rim,but I must check clearance with and hight of both ct & mt first.I will let you know.

iiamfrank wrote:Thanks for the info,still looking for size on ct, have found some that will fit 16" rim,but I must check clearance with and hight of both ct & mt first.I will let you know.

With a 16" rim....you will be limited like the HD guys and they don't offer many sizes at all that are narrow enough for you. I hope you find something and if you do...please let us know?


.....................bobby

Ill be watching this as well. I got a friend with the same bike wanting to go darkside. If he finds one Ill post it up as well.

Peace
Moon

My mc tire is 6.5" wide. I have room for a little over 1" on each side before hitting the fender. 5 3/4 " on the hight(bottom of mc tire to the top). Last the rim is 4.5" wide. As you said the with is a concern. I am going to mesure some tires here localy and see what they are. Sizes range from---- 150-70, 175-60,195-55, and 205-50. We will see. Let me know what you think.. All these tires state a 5.5" " rim or bigger.

Thank You

What is the meaurement between your MC tire and the belt?

About 2.5 ".

iiamfrank wrote:About 2.5 ".

You are telling me that you have 2.5 inches between your belt and the edge of your tire. Is that correct? That sure does sound like a lot of space, but if that is true you have a hook up to put a fat a$$ tire on that bad boy.

Peace
Moon

Yes,I want to check it again, the fender is the problem.

Ill be getting off the boat tonight. I will go to my friends house tomorrow afternoon and look for myself. We will get this resolved for you soon. Hang in there.

Thank You. My wife had sugury today,so I will be back and forth with her. She is doing ok,hope she can come home Friday,then I will have more time.

iiamfrank wrote:Thank You. My wife had sugury today,so I will be back and forth with her. She is doing ok,hope she can come home Friday,then I will have more time.

Sure sorry to hear that she is haveing sugury. I'll send up some prayers for yall. I got your back, I have a red phone to the big guy upstairs. Im one of his favorits.
Blessings to you and yours.
Moon

The "BIG GUY" is the man,she is home now but will be going slow for a long while.
The mc tire again is 6.5" wide at the widest point, the fender will only give you 1"on each side more,or 8.5" not allowing a lot of clearience. The rear arm has 2" on each side,but again the fender is the most narrow. I am going to go and measure some tires and check there numbers.

Thanks for the prayers!!!!!!