Still a great looking bike!
What colour are the new Grips?
Thank you! I can't wait to go a little harder on the descents knowing I have a gravity tyre on the back. I weighed them both and they come out to approx 1,200g (f) and 1,300g (r)..
Looks good ! Were you tearing sidewalls in the past ?
Get out and ride
Before you ride it though, unseat those tyres and line up the valve stems!
Thanks! Mainly burps, I once lost all the air out of a rear tyre descending a rocky downhill section.
The reason I ask is it's taken me 15yrs to go enduro/DH casing on tyres, eeb as it doesn't matter and Deviate as it's mainly shuttle and play bike.
I've tried MaxxGrip and other soft compounds before but it's like riding through custard then the weight of heavy casings.
If you are climbing and riding flow, soft compounds and thick casing can really knock the speed off and feel draggy, making the bike feel heavy and lifeless.
The weight weenie in me has always had me on tyres run at their limit, if I can get away with a lighter, faster tyre, I'll use it. Burps are easy fixed with more pressure, snakebites and casing holes are different but for that 1 janky section, you could slow down rather than run 1300g tyres over 950g ones.
Get a couple of rides on them and see how you go
the MM.
Have you ridden them yet ?
Hello rolling resistance!
Being 100kg is also rolling resistance!
Not really a rolling resistance. On the flat when up to speed and going down, 100kg is your friend. Point it up and the 100kg fights gravity.
After my Xmas binge on various fattening solids and liquids, I'm currently 91kg so only a few short of you.
I can't be bothered with going lighter, I'm aiming to have fewer issues with sturdier tyres apart from working a bit harder. But as I don't do 5 hour rides then it's worth the trade off.
Wait till you have tried the big boys before you go all in.
I have ridden everywhere, including 5 Tassie trips on normal casing tyres like Maxxterra EXO, Michelin Enduro, regular Vittoria Mazzas. My venture in to enduro/DH is only about a year ago.
It's all good, I liked my WTB tyres and these are the closest equivalent in terms of casing and tread type. Wasn't it you that suggested sturdier casings in the first place?