Will a 170/60-18 fit a '91 K100RS?

[Pete_Dubai]

Has anyone tried a 170/60-18 rear tire on a K100RS? (Instead of the 160/60 stocker.) That's all I can get where I am living at the moment, it seems like it should fit, has anyone tried it?
Thanks!

[johnny]

greetings pete_dubai...

welcome to motobrick.com...

i gotts a 170 60 18 shenko podium on the brick of the corn... a 1994 rs eleven hundert... running 2 spacers... all is good...

note... im talking eleven hundert... donts knows abouts the ten hundert...

posting it up cause i like to say hundert...

j o

[Freelancer]

Should fit, though (depending upon the tires profile) it might affect the handling.

Is this a "stuck in the sticks and needing a tire to get home situation?"
-or-
Just live in an area that is hard to get parts shipped in?

Some here might be able to help depending upon the "sitcheeashun". (Last bit was for Johnny)   :hehehe

Later,
Freelancer

[Pete_Dubai]

It looks like it would be really close, as the existing gap with the 160/60 I can not fit the tip of my little finger in (not a scientific measuring tool I know :)
That's why I was hoping to hear if anyone has done it on the K100RS or not, I don't know if the 1100 bikes use the same swingarm.
What about the spacers?
Thanks

[drut]

Just to confuse things I know on mine it is a tight fit to get a 160/60 Dunlop Roadsmart in between exhaust & swingarm(have to let tire down)whereas a 160/60 Michelin PR2 goes in much easier.So you may be able to fit a 170/60 of one make but not another.