Tires on CB750K

[wernwilk]

I am replacing the tires on my 1978 CB 750 K and went ahead and ordered some Dunlop D404's from Bike Bandit.  The tires are the correct size and look a good model, however when I received them i checked to see if they were tubed or tubeless..(I know something i should have done when ordering, schoolboy error)..

They are indeed tubeless but the spoked wheels on the CB use tubes....I looked at the old tires on there and they are both tubeless types also even though tubes are fitted to the bike.

Would it be a huge issue if I fitted the tubeless tires with tubes to my bike?

If there are any implications, what are they?

thanks all.

[MarkPBG]

I don't know if you're supposed to, but the tires on my bike are tubeless type and I have tubes with spoked rims.

[rrgunslinger]

Doesn't matter.  You can put a tube in a tubeless tire.

[shinyribs]

Gunslinger is right. Adding tubes is not a problem.Cant get away from tubes if ya got spokes,but you can run any tire you want.

[wernwilk]

thanks men,

thats what I thought and am glad i checked in.

[sgtslag]

Technically, tubeless tires will run hotter, with tubes inside of them -- but we have no choice, as tube-only tires are pretty much non-existent anymore.  Just be sure to replace the rim strips while you have the tire off.  The rim strips are rubber/plastic strips which cover the spoke nipples, preventing them from puncturing your new tubes.  Always put new tubes in new tires!  The natural rubber tubes will deflate slower, when punctured, than synthetic rubber tubes, as well, but I don't know that it will make much of a difference.  Deflation is bad...  Very bad.  New rims strips, and new tubes.  I'm just sayin'...  Cheers!

[rrgunslinger]

If you don't have a new rim strip use duck tape.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:49 PM, sgtslag [via Honda CB750'S] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Technically, tubeless tires will run hotter, with tubes inside of them -- but we have no choice, as tube-only tires are pretty much non-existent anymore.  Just be sure to replace the rim strips while you have the tire off.  The rim strips are rubber/plastic strips which cover the spoke nipples, preventing them from puncturing your new tubes.  Always put new tubes in new tires!  The natural rubber tubes will deflate slower, when punctured, than synthetic rubber tubes, as well, but I don't know that it will make much of a difference.  Deflation is bad...  Very bad.  New rims strips, and new tubes.  I'm just sayin'...  Cheers!

1979 CB750K
1993 Kawasaki Voyager XII

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[Piute]

          uSE DUCT TAPE O.K. Mc guyver ,I have used electrical-tape but that was on my bycycle