Wire beads don't split and come off the rim. And when I say split I mean the equivalent of breaking the cord that runs the circumference. There's a very good reason real dh tires are wire bead.

Air them up and go ride them. The sealant needs bouncy bouncy

they've already verified suspicions by only making these in 1 size, 1 casing.

The wildrocker2 that everyone raves about (including me) are the same tires as what they're calling the rockr2 now on their website.

the endurpo is new. I haven't ridden them but I've seen them...

I've been trying to put my finger on what the difference is but that post above does a better job than I would just sitting around guessing. Straight up the knobs on the gumx are more compliant. As...

I put two gumx rockr2s on my bike this weekend.


heeheheeeeee......I keep saying it but I forgot how fucking good those tires are

Those particular michelins....they can keep.

Heh. In a few years that ass guy will be about as relevant as the griffon in their lineup.

Companies release new because it's new not because it's better. It's what keeps tire companies...

do you notice a big difference between different kinds of tires? You live in BC which generally has pretty good dirt and delicious fresh cleared loam. Cutting out things to open that channel up won't...

The little ones closest to the sideknobs.


Cutting down corner knobs 'because they're too tall?'

Sweet jesus people are idiots

Oh you have to click enduro

'mtb' just doesn't cover it guess. God help you if you try to all mountain on those things.

Fuck this sport

You actually found a tire on michelin's website? One that you were specifically looking for? Doing better than I am.

Michelin's website is so god damned bad. I can't find shit on there.

They bailed on the dh tire that was just a bigger wildrockr2. I won't forgive them for that. The dh tires they're in theory...

I'd rather not

Totally serious. 2 harder compound for rear, one gooey for a front. I've used those tires since they came out. They rule

Those things are way better than minions. Thanks for the heads up. Just ordered 3!

Debatable

I have zero interest in learning any sort of proper anything.

Literally zero fucks.

And thin, fat balloons that go on rims are still stupid.

Learn how to ride better?


:D


I run those harder ones in the back too FWIW. I can't stand sticky rubber for a rear tire on anything I pedal for hours.

I do use the 2.4s though.

You cray cray


hey SS: just keep both of those "dual" things for rear tires and buy a good sticky front something.

hard/60 I think.

Doesn't look like they make a supertacky one. They probably know the thin sideknobs would last about one run.

Not really though. Good tires work everywhere. Grabbing available material for turning/braking only really changes when the material is complete gummy slop.

You rolling in the 350+ lbs camp these days?

That's absurdly high on a thick tire like that.

Good. Maybe by the time the mtb world is on 48.75" wheels their tires will actually measure to the listed number as well.

Totally. I've done this on trail bikes/rims/tires and my dh bike/rims/tires.

Every time I end up with a fatter rear tire. Talking 26" here though. It might be a different ballgame in other sizes. ...

Every 2.4 dhr2 I have is bigger than every 2.5 dhf I have. The dhr2s might be bigger than the hr2s though. They end up pretty balloony once they stretch.

every dh tire (which means g5) works fine tubeless

I've had them on my dh bike with no tubes for 2-3 years

Yeah not sure that feeler thing is worth an extra 25 bucks then.

Dee, you own one of those?

Are the cutting ends shaped any differently than what you can get at a hardware store?

I just clicked on the first one and saw 'fat bike tires'

Who is it? Not a whole lot of info on the 'about' section of the site.

Ah

No wonder I'd never heard of them. "those" kinds of tires......

I recognize the numbers but are those other characters making words?

I was working directly with the people actually designing the tires for those maxxis reps when the new tires and naming conventions happened. What I said is exactly what happened. About two years ago...

There isn't really. The old 2.35 is just 2.3, and is comparable to a 2.1 from anyone else. I've got a 2.5 dhf and a 2.3 slaughter on my bike and I think the slaughter is actually a little bigger. ...

It's not.
I'm not kidding look at weights.

No tire weighs what it does because someone wants that weight. It's all a compromise. And if a tire is kinda heavy it's because in some way,...

Yes pretty much entirely.

There's more to durability than thickness. Dense material is dense. It doesn't need to be thick. Half an inch of silicone is still weaker than a 1/8" of Kevlar (and guess...

Look at weights. That will tell you more than reading a bunch of casing marketing gobbledeegook. But no just because you tore ONE version of a DHR2 doesn't mean that DHR2s are week. The first molds...

treads don't rip, casing designs rip. "DHR2" is a tread design.

which DHR 2 casing was it?

184819

Fun fact: the minion ss in a 26er is improved via closer sideknobs because they realized they fucked up the 27.5 one.

curmudgeonlife pays off again

chaching!

Good. I don't know why they did that.

But then again I know I shouldn't even ask, because well........tomahawk and griffon.

They'd be fine as long as you don't regularly ride dirt that packs tires up. That would destroy your front wheel braking (which is most of it) with all those itty bitty knobs in the middle. They're...

Looking down at schwalbe tires will mess up your perspective. They're big for their claimed size and older maxxis designs like the one you just bought are small for their size. Just keep riding it...

Does that mean course marker tape doesn't stick to it?

No biggie. Those aren't horrible but they're neither a semi-slick nor anywhere near the awesome of what you'll have on the front.

Definitely not. Don't waste your money.

Que?

(that means quoi)

^that

The michelins aren't THAT much heavier than everything else, but the casing is stiffer so you run them at slightly lower pressures which means a lot of your pedaling momentum gets sucked up in...

I hear you on the e13 hype but no one besides maxxis, michelin (I think?) and continental makes their own tires. They're likely farmed out to one of the bigger plants, maybe the same place doing the...