A lot of engineering goes into selecting tires for a bike by the bike's manufacturer, not to mention into the tires themselves by the rubber guys. There is no question that you can mount tires of nearly the spec'ed size on your bike but you can expect even more variables than we see when using the suggested size, speed, and weight ratings. U'N (grin, if we call Uncle Phil, 'UP' I guess Upt'North just got a shortened appelation) hit the nail on the head. I too go with recommended tires. One fewer item to worry about.
What I copied to my own personal maintenance file is below in italics. U'N gave you another number for the same 8012 product. The second URL is for another suggested paste, but not as many of us use it.
ST1300 Moly Paste
Locktite 8012 is the way to go. See: Post 268 and a few later: https://www.st-owners.com/forums/th...-60-apparently-so.163897/page-14#post-2151829
https://www.tsmoly.com/anti-seize-lubricants-compounds-moly-paste-with-mossub2sub-p-84.html
dont look too deep into the engineering honda put into the tires. Tires are always getting better and the oe tires usually fall by the wayside . If They engineer the bike and tires so well then why did this happen
Pan weave[edit]
Evidence indicates the ST1300 can exhibit a
weave instability mode at high speed — known in the case of the ST1300 as
Pan Weave.
In April 2007, subsequent to the death of a police motorcyclist riding a single seat ST1300, the emergency service version of the ST1300, a British
coroner announced he would warn all
Chief Constables in England and Wales of the "serious threat" to riders' lives posed by the ST1300 and the "catastrophic result" of the high speed weave.
[18] Later safety checks resulted in one examiner sustaining several broken bones in a similar incident. UK police forces subsequently withdrew the ST1300 from police service;
[19] London Ambulance Service continue to operate the ST1300.
[20][21]
RiDE Magazine reported in October 2007 that a team replicated
weave instability mode with a civilian Honda ST1300 — reproducing the instability at a speed of 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) under certain loading conditions. The rider noticed a rear wheel maximum yaw of 11 degrees per second, described as "a consistent and alarming sideways movement." The editors named the behavior "Pan weave". The intent of the testing was not to determine the cause of the weave, but to confirm its existence. Also, the article reported that 43% of surveyed ST1300 owners had experienced the weave.
[22]
Tires manufactures design tires differently and they might handle differently, it just depends on how you like your bike to handle and maybe you might not even notice the difference unless you were on a track. I have used many different tires and sizes on the same bike they might feel different at first ( maybe the old tires were flattened out) but after a while they all seemed to handle good . Mileage was a different story.
