why do people like poke?

[JDub11]

WTF is POKE? whoever came up with that term needs a good slap.

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[Wbino]

New rule: If your tires poke out don't EVER bitch about your cracked windshield.?

 

[Jiggs1960]

If tires extend beyond the standard flares, with standard rims because they are wide tires is one thing, but if they extend beyond the flares just because you have spacers looks stupid. I'm getting old though, so what do I know.

 

[Floriduramax3.0]

On my rig, I have 4-1/2” lift. In order to keep from rubbing everything I had to go with a 3.5“ backspace on my wheels. I still get a little rub on full flex. People running anything less then 3.5” backspacing on 37’s would just rip out the fender liners while flexing and rubbing front steering and suspension parts. The poke also helps tire placement when crawling also.

Why didn’t you do a flip knuckle for that lift height?

 

[ChuckQue]

Just curious.
Don’t remember the term when I was on a Jeep TJ forum years ago, but I’ve seen it a lot here since getting the JLR last year.

From my point of view, the tire sticking out from under the flares was something you had to live with if you got wider tires, especially with less backspaced wheels, and maybe because you needed to move the tires out to clear suspension with the wider tires—those kinds of lift&tire modification issues.

But it seems like poke is something people want to achieve for its own sake?

Tire sticking out from under the flare also can cause legal problems some places—they seem easy about that in Utah where I am. But I prefer stock backspacing (for the sake of the hubs) if I can make it work with tire width, lift, clearance at full articulation, and turn radius. And I like that less mud gets thrown around.

I actually don’t care for it myself, despite having wheels that do. I primarily wanted to clear suspension and add stability for off camber situations or cornering.

 

[Smoke Showing]

Poke, when you have a lift and big tires, looks proportional or it can make you look like a go cart with small tires and spacers. There is a trend among a certain population around me that looks like they are stacking spacers to get half of their small tires sticking out of their pickups.

 

[Mocopo]

New rule: If your tires poke out don't EVER bitch about your cracked windshield.?

I disagree. MY cracked windshield has nothing to do with MY poke!

 

[roaniecowpony]

Well this is a forum, and everyone here is having what some call a conversation. Much like the “why don’t you take your doors off” thread, I fail to see why people get super defensive about people having a dialogue back and forth about jeep-related issues. If people want others to mind their own business maybe don’t spend time on a public forum.



That was my first thought as well. I came here to say “because it’s freakin’ delicious, have you tried it?!”

Not a big fan of it, but my wife likes it.

 

[James Cole]

Does having a wider stance increase stability in our JLs? does the Jeep feel more planted and drives better than stock?

 

[MayThe4x4BWU]

This is not nearly as comical as it should be given the title ?

 

[JasonInDLH]

I’m a big fan of tire poke for two purposes:

1. Less roll over risk on the trails.
2. My adolescent brain thinks it looks cool.

 

[Come2elmo]

I was thinking a different kind of poke all together and I don't think there is any debate about whether what is was thinking is good.

 

[JINO]

I don't like the sunken in look, the way stock comes.
When I'm crawling rocks or ruts, I rather be rubbing my tire than my fender.

My JL has a 3.5 lift and needed backspace for the wheels to fit (instructed by metalcloak).
An inch poke looks good to me.
Hate when jeeps have tires that stick out really far and have tiny paper thin fenders, so ugly, but that's just my opinion.

 

[keeperman13]

I thought this thread was about poke bowls and was a bit confused until I opened it. I must have food on the brain for some reason...

I was preparing my answer as to why I love a good poke bowl. Then started reading. My favoriter after beach snack in the world has to be a poke bowl with a coke. Or poke and a coke.

Edit: I noticed I goobered up the word favorite, but I decided to leave it.

 

[CarbonSteel]

If tires extend beyond the standard flairs, with standard rims because they are wide tires is one thing, but if they extend beyond the flairs just because you have spacers looks stupid. I'm getting old though, so what do I know.

Yes, but no one can argue that you have a flair about you when discussing flares.

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