Knobby tires VS Street tires

Vandal_Spree · Post by **Vandal_Spree** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:58 am

I have a couple questions. I want to know if knobby tires will reduce the speed of my 86 Spree. I weigh 200 pounds and it barely goes 30 so i cant loose any MPH. Is that the average speed of sprees?

mopedman · Post by **mopedman** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:31 am

Vandal_Spree wrote:I have a couple questions. I want to know if knobby tires will reduce the speed of my 86 Spree. I weigh 200 pounds and it barely goes 30 so i cant loose any MPH. Is that the average speed of sprees?

yes 30 is about all you get out of these things

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:59 am

Stick with street tires.

po89mm · Post by **po89mm** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:01 pm

Kenny_McCormic wrote:Stick with street tires.

what he said,

im 200 myself and on a good day i can do around 33 @ WOT on my 86 if things are nice and clean and not fowled up.

jstone · Post by **jstone** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:41 pm

Just depends on the riding you want to do. Me and my cousins used to race sprees around the yard all the time. Some knobbys would have been nice then lol.

seacook · Post by **seacook** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:11 pm

Stick with street tires...They are Awesome! I just put a new set on my spree and its easy to feel them grip the road on the turns.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:56 pm

Be warned, the d*** things are worthless in gravel and wet grass I only slid and nearly lost it twice today running my dog around.

seacook · Post by **seacook** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:20 pm

Street Tires also grip concrete well, so well that when I was admiring the sound of my Spree as I reved it that I lifted the front end up enough for the rear to grab the garage floor...opps! Anyone have an extra Tailight lense?

chrisdangerpants · Post by **chrisdangerpants** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:27 pm

well, i went from street to knobby and the only difference is the noise it makes on the pavement. Think one of those offroad trucks and how noisy they are on the pavement, then scale it down to a spree size tire. I have to say i will not be going back to street, because i love the fact that I can go offroad now.

Ive cut thru playgrounds and baseball fields now that I have my knobbys, and I love them.

oh ya, it didnt even reduce my mph by 1. I still get the same speed with the knobbys that I did with street.

nightwolf1772 · Post by **nightwolf1772** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:30 pm

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