Entropy, granted, I'm sure there are doubters of Bill's tire choice however it is still a motorcycle tire. Anyone running over 186mph is pushing the approved limit of the available motorcycle tires as it is. I don't see that Bill did anything dramatically different he just thought outside the box a little and used a wider tire.
The car tire is an entirely different story. In my opinion (yeah I know the @ saying) but he's trying to adapt a tire for use in a manor for which it was not intended as a bandaid to an entirely different set of problems all while there is superior and proven equipment available. Now don't get me wrong, we're all about innovation and fabrication. Heck there's not a metric bike that has left our shop that's not secretly sporting a Harley part {gasp} but never when there is a better, proven, readily available item to be had.
For all we've seen go on at Maxton I just don't get why a car tire would be allowed on a bike at the track. Yeah I get that so far he hasn't gone fast enough for it to matter but it's only a matter of time. Some of our best riders have taken out cones heck some of our not so great riders have too... ahem... but the point being, as was said above, if this little experiment fails as it is destined to do as he continues to try to push the limit, we ALL suffer! The trees are gone, the cross winds are stronger, conditions & the track change not to mention the wildlife. You can't just count on going straight and making one {hopefully} controlled turn.
I don't understand stating that the fastest bikes had to dial it down. What kind of comparison is that? Yes they had to in order to keep the power to the ground and the wheel from spinning so what I wonder is why doesn't he just do that? So far the majority of the riders don't do as well with an extended swing arm at our track because they can't hook up with it hanging out there. Many many people have proven you don't need to launch hard enough to stand the bike up and in fact if you're trying to go fast, standing the bike up only slows you down.
I don't know, I just don't get it. Why where motorcycle tires even designed if car tires were adequate or even superior? How much more horse power needs to be used and how much more speed obtained before the motorcycle tires are proven?
I dunno, maybe I'm just a dumb girl cause I don't get it!