Tires for the M109R - Page 2

busabeater 2 · #11 03-29-2008, 07:38 PM

My new tires for the 9

Jim · #12 03-30-2008, 08:17 AM

Looks great Mike I'm riding to Savanna next Sunday the 6th can you go?

busabeater 2 · #13 03-31-2008, 10:23 AM

Yep count me in and also my buddy on his vs800

Let me know when and were to meet and its all good

Were you sunglasses, gets kinda bright riding next to me now

Ctatyk · #14 03-31-2008, 10:48 AM

Swung by Busa's house on Saturday and well...let's just say that I'm VERY impressed with each of the mods that he's done. Some guys do a mod and it doesn't look right on the bike or it doesn't fit well. Suzuki should take note in case they're wanting to create a "fully loaded" M109R!!
That 280 on a 10" rim is just amazing! I couldn't stop checking it out. I hope that they didn't think I was some sort of perv for constantly checking out the bike....LOL

Anyway...Good job Busa, on all of your mods!

busabeater 2 · #15 03-31-2008, 12:57 PM

Thanks Ctatyk, it was great meeting you also, you want to ride this weekend also, be nice to get a couple of bikes together and ride to Poppys or where ever Jim wants to go

I am going to let a few friends know about it also

sutphen77 · #16 04-04-2008, 01:30 PM

If you are lowered and rubbing already, by using the 1" higher Elite will obviously rub a bit more.. But they sure do look good

MAC109 · #17 09-20-2008, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MC57

I've got 4400 miles on my metz 280 ( stock rim ), and I'm just starting to see some uneven wear on the rounded edge, and I push it fairly hard in the twisties..

hi friend i want buy 280 but fit in the rim stock have that modified the bike? that size and brand of tire buy thank you

MAC109 · #18 09-20-2008, 07:08 PM

'hi friend i want buy 280 but fit in the rim stock have that modified the bike? that size and brand of tire buy thank you

Ctatyk · #19 09-30-2008, 08:23 AM

I replaced another tire in Arkansas.
This time, instead of a thin strip showing 1-2 cords, I had a strip over an inch wide and was in Eureka Springs. I rode that afternoon (fairly hard) back to the campground and the next morning (much tamer) over to Fayetteville. I pulled the wheel off myself with some great direction from JUtah (Rich). He had his B-King up in the air with both tires off, so I had to wait until he got his front tire on to change mine. $201.00 and a few hours later, I had a Dunny Elite 3 tire back on the bike and we hit the road for some scrubbing in. He got his new super sticky tires all scrubbed in and I got mine done pretty well.

I ended up putting on another 240, just like the Metz.
observations between stock, Metz, and Dunny E3

Stock was a bit hard and had an odd curve that made cornering more of a chore, but I got 6300 miles out of it.

Metz was much stickier and handled SIGNIFICANTLY better, but I got less than 5000 miles on it and it was $300.00

Dunny E3 seems to stick to the ground as well as the metz and I hope that it lasts at least 4000 miles. That alone would make it a much better deal than the Metz. I have noticed that the dunny has a shorter profile than the Metz because I was dragging pegs all over the place this past week.

Yes folks, you read correctly...I was dragging pegs.
This might have been partly due to the fact that instead of following other
M109R's around for the week, I was following a B-King or two around. I was able to maintain the same lines as they were. They might have been able to run off and leave me, but they didn't. (I blame this as much on me being insane as I do the tires though)

2006moy · #20 10-03-2008, 07:41 PM

I vote for the fact that you can just damn well RIDE good!

I have 1 of the Bkings that Bud was following and hes got the skills. Or do i just lack the skills??????

All in all had a lot of fun and it was good to hear you finally scrapped a peg. I rode with you when i had my 109 you never scrapped i left half of my bike on the ground.