Max,
I know this is going to be hard for you to understand. When a motorcycle is in motion and leaned over in a turn, the G forces increase causing the bike to settle into its suspension there fore the distance between the frame and the ground becomes much less than when in a static condition. When the frame moves closer, the bike will touch down much sooner than it should. That is the reason there are people designing suspension systems to compensate for those things. Get on the internet, you will see several people selling devices to prevent this from happening so bad.
Also, there is no need in Yelling (very large bold letters) This is bad manners in internet etiquette. You should know that by now.
I would have to see a letter from Bridgestone stating that the Goldwing will be at 38 degrees when compressed under load at max gross weight. I do not think it would be near that amount, at least mine won't..
Along with the above, a car tire will compress the inside sidewall as the G forces increase causing the tire to lay flatter than it would if the side walls did not give a bit... There fore, the tire will not quit be on edge, but will have several inches of the bottom of the tire on ground while in a curve.
If you will do the following, you will have a better understanding.
Put a good sport radial car tire on a rim and mount it to your bike. I used water but you could use some paint, any way, coat the tire (I run through a puddle of water) Drive through the water at any speed, just as the back wheel passes through the water, start a very tight turn, leaned as far as you can go. Then stop the bike and go look at the tracks, measure the width of the tracks, then tell me why there is over 3 inches of track in the tight turn.. After you do this, you will have a better understanding of what the Darkside is all about.
I did not see any where in the Bridgestone article where it said that being on the side wall was only on the edge of the tire.. Even in the drawings, they indicate the sidewall as being on the ground, I have seen maybe 20 car tire installations and never seen even one that showed the side walls had touched the ground.
Have a good day :lol:
JMHO 8)