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Submitted by
Super29
a Weekend Warrior
from Gateway City, Missouri USA
Date Reviewed: 4/7/2008 11:08:16 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Any Singletrack |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | Came with bike |
| Strengths: | These came stock on the bike. Lightweight and can be made tubeless. |
| Weaknesses: | These tires cut far too easily. In my first ride with the tires on a moderately rocky trail I sliced a 1" gap in the tread. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Reading the site right now to find replacement. My 26" had WTBs that never cut a tire on this same trail. |
| Bike Setup: | Fisher Paragon - stock. |
| Bottom Line: | Light weight, but not ready for any type of rocky terrain. |
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Submitted by
Derek
a Cross Country Rider
from Chadds Ford, PA
Date Reviewed: 1/13/2008 7:46:47 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | David English, White Clay Creek, Brandywine Creek |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $1 |
| Purchased At: | Newark Bike Line |
| Strengths: | Great mud tire Endless Traction Great Cornering Solid AT Tire |
| Weaknesses: | Slow Rolling, sort of |
| Similar Products Tried: | Panarcer Rampage, Geax Saguaro, Kenda Small Block Eight, Bontrager XR, WTB Exiwolf, Mutano Raptor |
| Bike Setup: | 2008 Gary Fisher Rig, Fox, Race X Lite Grips and Stem, Race Lite Bar, Ti Seatpost, Selle Italia Storika Saddle, |
| Bottom Line: | This tire is excellent in slushy mud, sticky mud, and most other types of mud. It corners well, rides reasonably soft, and gives you confidence. It also isn't that heavy, and the new TLR versin can be set up tubeless. |
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Submitted by
Caleb Janicich
a Cross Country Rider
from Beaverton, OR USA
Date Reviewed: 11/14/2007 1:02:38 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Tillamook! |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $34 |
| Purchased At: | Vancouver Cyclery |
| Strengths: | Great climber! Great Cornering! Great downhill. No troubles with flats, punctures, very durable so far! Very good feel. Drifts well. Just rails around corners. If you hit it too fast, just drift until you hit a rut and keep a goin! Tubless Ready! |
| Weaknesses: | Very soft side lugs. (not a problem for me, but soft nonetheless) |
| Similar Products Tried: | 26" tires Panaracer Fire XC Pro, Panaracer Cinder, Michelen All Mountain |
| Bike Setup: | 08' Hi-Fi Pro 29er |
| Bottom Line: | I've taken this thing over rocks, jumps, technical descents, technical ascents. It's never failed me. Rode it on a trail that almost ALWAYS gives me a flat on my Panaracers, no flat! I'm running it tubed, haven't gone tubeless yet. Handles great out here in OR. Highly recommended for muddy wet climates. Grips the mud like no other. Just point and go. Looking for confidence in the mud? Here look no further. |
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Submitted by
Scott L
a Weekend Warrior
from St. Louis, MO
Date Reviewed: 10/1/2007 12:02:47 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Chubb |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | Hooks up well on hard packed surfaces and grabs well on dry trails. |
| Weaknesses: | WEAK SIDEWALLS! I have gone through (2) rear tires within a 3 month period. Maybe 12 rides. Scary on damp rocks and roots. NO GRIP in wet stuff. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Velociraptors and Panaracer on 26". |
| Bike Setup: | Stock 293 GF. |
| Bottom Line: | I will never buy another one of these. I lost both tires to sidewall damage. The second tire lasted to the end of the third ride I took on it. I have ridden the same trails for 10 years and have never lost any other tire. This is a weak tire and is spooky on damp-to-wet trails. If you are a flat trail rider and stick to dry surfaces, it works just fine. |
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Submitted by
Peter Ryckaert
a Weekend Warrior
from Victor, NY, USA
Date Reviewed: 8/13/2007 8:06:27 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Dryer Road |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $25 |
| Purchased At: | OEM |
| Strengths: | Tire has mad grip on dry semi-loose surfaces. It's early but it seems to be holding up. No wet testing so far. Keeps the bike bolted to the ground. Ride quality seems just fine. |
| Weaknesses: | It's wide enough that my Orbea Alma 29er just has the clearance in the back. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Lower-end Bontrager with shorter knobs (not enough bite). |
| Bike Setup: | Orbea Alma carbon 29er hardtail. Oem heavy wheels. |
| Bottom Line: | This tire is a match for our trail. I can't comment on rocks or damp singletrack. It's dry, dusty and semi-loose this summer. |
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Submitted by
David Dalessio
a Cross Country Rider
from saint peters mo
Date Reviewed: 1/8/2007 5:30:44 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | the ranch |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | came on bike |
| Strengths: | decent traction in dry to damp conditions |
| Weaknesses: | Horrible in wet and even worse in mud. side walls are VERY thin get ripped very easy in rocky conditions |
| Similar Products Tried: | maxis ignitor |
| Bike Setup: | 07 supercaliber29 marybars,maxis ignitor tires,everything else is stock |
| Bottom Line: | would be good for someone that only rides on dry dirt or pavement. I would not recomend this tire to purchase.I switched to maxis ignitor after the side walls got tore up in less than a month/200 miles and the difference is huge the traction is awsome the side walls are alot more durable and traction in shallow mud is alot better. |
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Submitted by
Stefan Griebel
a Cross Country Rider
from Boulder, CO, 80303
Date Reviewed: 12/21/2006 11:39:03 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Colorado Trail |
| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Purchased At: | Came with my GF-292 |
| Strengths: | Pretty lightweight, pretty knobby, but still rolls relatively fast. |
| Weaknesses: | Soft rubber knobs wear quickly. I had more puncture flats with these tires than any other. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Conti Vapor Pro's, Kenda Klaw XT's, Exiwolves, Nanoraptors, Motoraptors |
| Bike Setup: | Rode these on my GF-292 only |
| Bottom Line: | These are a good all-around tire, but I wouldn't buy them again, because there are so many other good choices out there now. I hated how the tiniest thorn would give me a flat, and these tires also wore out quicker than any others I have ridden. |
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Submitted by
GlowBoy
a Cross Country Rider
from Portland OR
Date Reviewed: 12/20/2006 4:29:09 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Lost in oregon |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $30 |
| Purchased At: | Speedgoat |
| Strengths: | Light weight, good volume, pretty fast rolling, decent grip in rocks, sheds mud well. |
| Weaknesses: | Fragile casing, scary on wet roots. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Bontrager XR, Bontrager ACX, Kenda Karma 1.9, Kenda Klaw, Kenda Khan, Maxxis Ignitor, Panaracer Rampage, Schwalbe Black Jack 1.9, WTB ExiWolf, WTB Nanoraptor, and too many smaller 700c tires to count. |
| Bike Setup: | - Surly Karate Monkey, currently 3sp hub commuter. - Vulture custom 29" SS EBB hardtail. - Lenz Sport Leviathan 29"x3" full suspension. |
| Bottom Line: | Until recently this was one of the larger 29" tires around. Genuinely a 2.1-2.2" with decent cush, and good grip in a variety of conditions EXCEPT wet roots, where it's scary. Too bad because the tire is otherwise good in mud, but around here if you've got mud you've also got wet roots. Casing and bead are fragile, not a good choice if you ride in sharp rocks. I'm far from the only person to have had this tire explode on me. Buy it if you want a decent and reasonably fast/light all-rounder and aren't put off by its weaknesses. Skip it if you are larger or otherwise hard on tires, have a lot of thorns or sharp rocks in your riding area, or ride in wet conditions in forested terrain. |
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