You know when people band steel wheels to make them wider, could a similar thing be done to make them thinner to take a motorbike tyre? If so I could fit the now-narrowed steel wheels to car hubs from a small car, would be cheap and wouldn't have to work out how to fit bike wheels. I'm not sure if the lips of car and bike wheels are similar (i.e. the bit where the tyre forms the seal) Any idea if that would work?

Just use a narrow wheel.

How about space saver wheels?

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Originally posted by Benzine
You know when people band steel wheels to make them wider, could a similar thing be done to make them thinner to take a motorbike tyre? If so I could fit the now-narrowed steel wheels to car hubs from a small car, would be cheap and wouldn't have to work out how to fit bike wheels. I'm not sure if the lips of car and bike wheels are similar (i.e. the bit where the tyre forms the seal) Any idea if that would work?

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The answer is here

http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible_pg4.html

if you can understand it!

Search under profiles

Cheers

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Originally posted by designer
Just use a narrow wheel.

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Originally posted by Dingz
How about space saver wheels?

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What size, offset and pcd are you looking for? If I have any kicking about, I don't mind whopping one in the lathe and waving the mig at it to see what occurs.

Bear in mind your tyres have to be rated to faster than your vehicle can do - this is normally based on what your speedo is rated to. Whilst bike tyres will be ok, space saver tyres more than likely won't.

Also are bike tyres designed to always have their forces pushing downwards (hence when they corner the bike rolls to the side). In a car the tyre has to resist a sideways force as the tyre is always flat. Are you sure that a bike tyre can resist that same force?

I have actually done this due to the correct wheel being unavailable, all worked fine & half the welding of a banded wheel.
To be fair though it was on a David Brown!

Thanks for the replies!

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Originally posted by owelly
What size, offset and pcd are you looking for? If I have any kicking about, I don't mind whopping one in the lathe and waving the mig at it to see what occurs.

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