Thinking about a wider rear tire

[Calamari_imp]

I'm actually set on the 180 rear. The 160 option is info which I will pass on to friends of mine if they are interested in a wider rear but don't want to do a bunch of mods for a 180. I'm a function over form guy. Meaning it has to work good before it looks good. The 180 rear is form only, I like the look of a wider rear tire than what's currently on the bike. If in my research I find that I lose too much function (handling and rideability) from the mod, I won't do it plain and simple. I know that millions of dollars and tons of research are done to design and build a bike. I'm not naive enough to think I can do it better than the engineers that created the bike but I will look at every option at my disposal to get all the geometry, physics, etc as correct as possible. I do a ton of research before I make changes to anything.