Thinking about a wider rear tire

[Calamari_imp]

I wanted to add my 2 cents pertaining to the wider rear tire/wheel subject. I'm a big fan of a wider rear tire. I own a Suzuki M109R with a factory 240 rear tire. It's very fat and looks great. I also own a '13 CB1100 and had a sportbike until a couple weeks ago. With that said, the big rear tire definitely changes the handling of the bike. Even though Suzuki designed the M109R with the 240 rear, it is definitely different when turning with such a big rear tire and it's very noticeable. I'm sure they spent countless hours getting the geometry correct so it was rideable by the masses. I give them many props on the 240 setup. The factory did the 240 mod, so any time we decide to change our bike from the stock riding geometry, it's going to have some affects. We have to do our homework.

I say to each his/her own. There are certain things that I'll do to my bikes that some may not agree with and others may do things to their bikes that I wouldn't agree with. The cool thing is that we all have our bikes modded the way we like them. I won't knock anyone for how they personalize their bike because it's their bike not mine and quite frankly none of my business.

I personally want to put a sportbike 180 tire on my CB and am looking at how I can do that. I already know the handling will be affected and that I'll have to make some mods and I'm ok with that. Someone may say I could just go buy another bike with a 180 tire already on it. The thing is, I don't want another bike with the 180, I want the CB1100 with the 180 on it. I could understand someone's concern if it was the last CB on the planet but there are tons of them out there and people are buying the heck out of them. There are lots of them that will remain stock and tucked away in garages, living rooms, etc. The best thing I can do is research as much as possible and make sure I'm not doing anything unsafe because that's the stopping point for me. Another would be if it gets too involved or stupid expensive. One of the things I'm anal about is doing a ton of research before I jump into a mod. We all love bikes and our CB's. Let's just enjoy them. I say Mod away! Just be safe doing it.