Greetings. My TVS Jupiter currently comes with 90mm tyres on both the front and rear. Can I upgrade to slightly wider 100 mm tyres for better ride quality and handling?

Autocar India

•4d

Since you're looking at just a small upsize in your tyre sizes, you can go ahead and replace the tyres of your Jupiter with 100-section units from the stock 90-section ones. It will help give you more sure-footed handling as well as a slight improvement in ride quality.

The flip side to this change will be that wider tyres will increase rolling resistance, which is going to have a small but noticeable negative impact on fuel efficiency.

Another point to bear in mind is that the scooter's steering will feel heavier in general, but especially at slower speeds.

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Bhavesh

•4d

Thanks, really insightful

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