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Fat Tire Sportbikes

By Paul Crowe

Custom Sportbike Concepts Fat tires on choppers are commonplace but it isn’t quite as common on sportbikes, yet. Custom Sportbike Concepts of Orlando, Florida have fat tire kits for selected sportbikes that put a monster rear tire out back for a truly phat look. I have to say it looks pretty cool. The photo at right is one of their custom project bikes, a Hayabusa, that has a lot of other very trick components, including an air ride suspension.

I do wonder how a bike like this handles. Choppers with wide tires have some interesting handling characteristics, of course, choppers aren’t known as canyon carvers in the first place. These kits include a lot of parts including a new front wheel and tire so it looks well thought out. Custom sportbikes at this level are just that, custom bikes, so if there is a penalty in the twisties, the buyer probably doesn’t mind.

Posted on March 15, 2005 Filed Under: Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Design


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Comments

  1. drunkpuppy.net says

    March 15, 2005 at 10:41 am

    It does look, ‘cool’ but I have to agree that handling would suffer. On the other hand, do you really need a side stand?

  2. thomas smith says

    September 21, 2005 at 11:27 pm

    Ahh man you guys are on to something here im from cali. and everyone is on bikes now young and old its blowin up out here.Im doing research right now to order a kit for my bike and i havent even bought the bike yet. I want to be the first to roll up on a chopper with my 240 and leave him there staring at my ladies ass cheeks

  3. Cobiker17 says

    September 22, 2006 at 2:07 pm

    I’ve got a friend with a custom made single-sided swing to accept a 330mm rear tire. Handling, of course is terrible, but it is a head turner. Mammothmaxx.com

  4. fat tire says

    March 24, 2008 at 10:16 am

    correction on cobiker website company is mammothmaxx but website is mammothinc.net

  5. Aaron says

    October 31, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    If you slid off the back of that saddle, you’d be in trouble!

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