Great video! I just rode the Giant Loop Ride, and a Motoz vendor was promoting this same tire combo, so I'm very interested to learn your impression on trail and pave. Thx!
Off road: I was more than happy with the performance. The rear has plenty of bite and lateral traction so it always felt planted on hard pack, dirt, and mud. Gravel would give you the typical shimmy at speed but very minor and quickly corrects. The front was also very good but you will need to air down a bit (something I rarely do cuz I’m lazy) if it’s rocky at all or it’s gonna bounce the front all over the place. Once I figured that out I had no complaints in the dirty stuff. On road: The rear feels just as good as any 50/50 tire all the way up to hwy speed. It’s a little noisy but really any knobby is and I’m fine with that. The front tire is absolutely terrifying when you first put it on and that doesn’t get much better after being scuffed in. Anything over about 55 and you will get random wobbles. I’ve always been able to modulate the throttle to slow those down in the past but it seemed like no matter what I did I couldn’t shake the pucker factor. They grab rain grooves and tar snakes like just about any knobby tire. I wanted all the off road traction I could get but that really made the pavement riding pretty brutal. Overall I love the rear and will likely go with something less aggressive in the front next time. Totally just my opinion tho as I know people rave about these tires.
WOW nice to see old school maintenance.
Great video! I just rode the Giant Loop Ride, and a Motoz vendor was promoting this same tire combo, so I'm very interested to learn your impression on trail and pave. Thx!
Off road: I was more than happy with the performance. The rear has plenty of bite and lateral traction so it always felt planted on hard pack, dirt, and mud. Gravel would give you the typical shimmy at speed but very minor and quickly corrects. The front was also very good but you will need to air down a bit (something I rarely do cuz I’m lazy) if it’s rocky at all or it’s gonna bounce the front all over the place. Once I figured that out I had no complaints in the dirty stuff.
On road: The rear feels just as good as any 50/50 tire all the way up to hwy speed. It’s a little noisy but really any knobby is and I’m fine with that. The front tire is absolutely terrifying when you first put it on and that doesn’t get much better after being scuffed in. Anything over about 55 and you will get random wobbles. I’ve always been able to modulate the throttle to slow those down in the past but it seemed like no matter what I did I couldn’t shake the pucker factor. They grab rain grooves and tar snakes like just about any knobby tire. I wanted all the off road traction I could get but that really made the pavement riding pretty brutal.
Overall I love the rear and will likely go with something less aggressive in the front next time. Totally just my opinion tho as I know people rave about these tires.
Tractionator desert on my 22 adventure
Nice job, what are you going to do with the old tires?
Hanging on to them for now as they are great on the street.