On 05/12/2015 07:14 AM, micky wrote:
On Sun, 10 May 2015 21:58:10 -0600, wrote:

On 05/10/2015 01:47 PM, J Burns wrote:
On their track, engineered like most roads, backward tires performed
fine. That was my experience on motorcycles. I'd run at 80 or 90 in
hard rain.

On both motorcycles and bicycles some people mount the tires backwards
Biccyles? There is forward and backwards on bicycles?


Most definitely, particularly for mountain bike tires. Even slicks tend
to have arrows but the direction isn't all that important.

Most of the braking on bicycles (most wheeled vehicles for that matter)
is done by the front tire, while the driving force is transmitted by the
rear wheel. This leads to markings like

--- rear front --

since you want the most aggressive part of the pattern oriented
differently. Or sometimes not. When I'm riding in the desert I don't
like a really aggressive pattern on the front since it tends to dig in
and send you off in strange directions. I'd rather live with the
understeer.

Motorcycles are the same. I've run several different flavors of DOT
knobbies on the DR650. The more off road oriented ones like Dunlop 606's
are better in snow and mud but on the loose, rocky roads around here
they tend to deflect on rocks rather than just pushing through. Those
waterbars with the thick rubber strips can be interesting too.