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Description:Rampage 26" (all mountain MTB tire)
All condition all terrain tire with ZSG Natural compound provides unparalleled grip and durability in a tough and light casing. Excellent mud shedding and outstanding descending properties.
CONDITIONAL USAGE: all mountain, loose
TIRE SIZE: 26 x 2.35
BEAD: Aramid
ETRTO: 58-559
TPI: 66
WEIGHT: 700g
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Submitted by
dumbaSS
a Cross Country Rider
from Bethlehem, PA, US
Date Reviewed: July 6, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Good grip, good volume, not bad rolling resistance. | | Weaknesses: | PINCH FLATS AS SOON AS IT SEES A ROCK!!! Even with way more pressure than I care to, or have run, in any mtb tire. | | Similar Products Used: | Nevegal | | Bike Setup: | Yeti 575 | | Bottom Line: | I really, really like this tire and have no problems with it in the 29'er version. But in the 26" version it is totally useless for me. I literally had at least one pinch flat every ride and even pinched the front and the back at the same time before I couldn't take it any longer and had to remove them. They seriously need to beef up the sidewalls or come out with a Rampage FR version, a tire this size wants to be pushed harder than this can take on my trails. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dufferin
a Weekend Warrior
from Los Angeles, CA
Date Reviewed: July 2, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | Mt. Wilson - El Prieto -Pine Knot | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance | | Strengths: | Best Trail Tire ever. Best combination of Grip, Handling, Predictability, Durability, Fast Rolling, Float and Light Weight | | Weaknesses: | Only comes in 2.35 size. Hope it was offered in the 2.5 or 2.25 and with different compounds. The 2.1 UST is a totally different tire. | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer Fire XC PRO 2.1, Panaracer Fire FR 2.4, Panaracer Razer MX 2.3, Panaracer Smoke, Kenda Nevegal 2.35 Stick-E, Karma 2.1 Stick-E, Bontrager ACX, Hutchinson Barracuda 2.3, Schwalbe Big Betty 2.4 GGC, WTB Motoraptor 2.4 & 2.25 DNA, WTB Velociraptor DNA | | Bike Setup: | Trek Fuel EX7, Pike 454 140mmUturn, Fox DHXair5.0, Thomson 90-0 stem, Easton EA70 riser, Hope Pro II hubs, DTSwiss EX5.1D rims, Panaracer Rampage 2.35, Atomlab Quikstep pedals, XT stuff | | Bottom Line: | I've had the Panaracer Rampage 2.35 on my 07 Fuel EX7 for almost a year now (front and back). These tires are the BEST trail tires I have tried:
-True size, measures 2.38 at the widest (on DTSwiss 5.1d rims), Fits perfectly on the Fuel EX with no rubbing issues.
-Light weight, weighs 700 g per tire.
-Fast Roller, climbs fast and easy, hardly any drag
-Durable sidewalls and knobs, Gone down the Mt. Wilson Shuttle to El Prieto several times without a flat, sidewall tear or missing knobs.
-Snake bite protection, this works, usually run 28 psi in front and 30 in the back when using tubes, no problems.
-The rubber compound has a good combination of excellent grip, decent tread life, and predictable handling.
-Stans no tubes certified.
-Made in Japan.
Highly Recommended!!! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
HH
a Weekend Warrior
from Boise, ID
Date Reviewed: March 12, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Strengths: | Great cornering traction. Very predictable and neutral while cornering. Sealed easily with Stan's. Lightweight, especially for the volume. | | Weaknesses: | Rear braking is a little weak because of the ramps on the knobs. It's not weak enough for me to consider a different rear tire, though. They seem to be hard to find in my area, though. | | Similar Products Used: | Many types, prior tires were WTB Mutano Raptor 2.4s | | Bike Setup: | Turner 5 Spot with decent build. | | Bottom Line: | Great tire for the dry conditions that I ride in. They perform well on hardpack and loose conditions. I feel completely confident cramming them into a corner. They've never suddenly broken completely loose; they hook up very well if they do slide or drift. I liked the WTB Mutanoraptors more than I thought I would, but when they broke loose they never seemed to hook back up again.
The Rampages look a lot like Kenda Nevegals. I've never ridden on Nevegals so I can't compare the ride characteristics. They seem to last longer than my friends' Nevegals (or my old Karmas), though.
I highly recommend them for aggressive trail riding in dry conditions. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Curt
a Weekend Warrior
from Midway City Ca
Date Reviewed: January 8, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | Porc | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$32.00 | | Purchased At: | Jensen | | Strengths: | Good all around traction, fast roller, fairly light at 700g round profile | | Weaknesses: | 2.25 on a 29mm rim, 100g heavier than the same width 2.4 schwalbe nobby nic | | Similar Products Used: | most in the size/ weight range | | Bike Setup: | 6 Pack | | Bottom Line: | great compromise of size, weight, speed and traction. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Zephyr
a Weekend Warrior
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: December 23, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | TT | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Sweet tire, rolls well, feels sticky, makes me smirk when i lean into a corner. | | Weaknesses: | sidewalls are thin and weak, have some slashes on the sides n inner tube is slightly visible when i have the tire pumped up. | | Similar Products Used: | Mechilin Moubntain Dry 2, Kenda Kinetics | | Bike Setup: | Hardtail Freeride | | Bottom Line: | Great as a front, super traction def gives confidence when i push it a little, get it if u want to try something diff from the usual. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
RideEverything
a
from Whistler, BC, Canada
Date Reviewed: October 11, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Super fast rolling. Great traction on everything when it is dry. | | Weaknesses: | Not a very good wet conditions tire. | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer Fire XC Pro and FR, Panaracer Fire DH, WTB Timberwolf and Dissent, Nokian NBX 2.1 | | Bike Setup: | Turner 6Pack - set up as a light freeride bike | | Bottom Line: | This is my follow up to my earlier review. These tires are decent all round tires but they definitely score low when it gets wet. I have ridden these tires on trails in Pemberton, Whistler, Squamish and the North Shore. I pedal up as well as ride every drop, log and loose section of trail I can find. Basically I have ridden these tires on everything. They handle well when it is dry but as soon as it is wet they leave something to be desired in the traction department.
I also rode these tires on a trip through Boise, Moab and Bend. The trail conditions there were dry and loose. The tires dealt with everything very well. Cornering at high speeds through the loose wasn't scary with these tires. They hooked up unbelievably well in the corners!
As for the complaints about pinch flats, I have only had that happen once. I am a tall (6'6") and heavy (240lbs) guy. I run my tires at 40psi. I do agree that the sidewalls feel flimsy but I haven't had any issues yet.
Again these are a great 'all terrain' tire when it is dry.
I have now moved on to the Panaracer Fire DH tires. These are unbelievable wet condition tires. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ANTHONY
a
from UK
Date Reviewed: October 8, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Pinchinthorpe trail with a few modified trails | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Strengths: | GRIP | | Weaknesses: | POOR SIDE WALLS | | Similar Products Used: | OTHER PANARACERS BUT CANNOT COMPARE TO THIS RUBBISH | | Bike Setup: | SCOTT FULL SUSS GENIUS MC10 | | Bottom Line: | I REVIEWED THIS PRODUCT NOT SO LONG BACK AND GAVE IT GREAT REVIEW BUT AFTRE DOING A FEW HARD TRAILS THE TIRES CAN ONLY BE CALLED RUBBISH AND A WASTE OF TIME AND MY MONEY.PINCH FAT AFTER PINCH FLAT AND THATS WITH 50 PSI IN THE REAR!!! YESTERDAY I HAD 4 PINCH FLATS IN A 2 HOUR RIDE.I PHONED PANARACER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THIS TIRE DID NOT HAVE ANTI SNAKE BITE/PINCH FLAT PROTECTION BUT OF COURSE THEY HAD NOT HAD A SINGLE COMPLAINT ABOUT THIS TIRE(YEH RIGHT DONT THEY ALL SAY THAT) BACK TO THE GOOD OLD XC PRO'S FOR THE NEXT RIDE BECAUSE I HAVE USED THEM 100'S OF TIMES AND NO PUNCTURES AT ALL. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Stephen
a Weekend Warrior
from Dublin, Ireland
Date Reviewed: October 7, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Marin Trail, Wales | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$42.00 | | Purchased At: | cyclesuperstore | | Strengths: | Cheap, available in Ireland | | Weaknesses: | Uninspiring. Poor grip on wet roots and rocks, drags in mud and soft trails. Not that light. Tire overall seems a bit hard. | | Similar Products Used: | Michelin XCR Mud, Maxis High Roller | | Bike Setup: | Ibis Mojo, Fox Vanilla RLC | | Bottom Line: | This is a review of the Rampage Sport 2.35. Im not sure how these differ from the Rampage, Panaracer's website does not list the sport model. A bit of a nothing tire, not bad enough to rip off immediately, they were an ok, if uninspiring, ride in dry conditions and a weeks riding in the French Alps. They don't engender confidence now that the trails are getting wet and muddy. I crashed after the front slid out without warning turning back into the car park on a wet road. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ANTHONY bigt
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: September 3, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Dalby forest | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | westbrook cycles | | Strengths: | Very hard wearing sidewalls even on folding version | | Weaknesses: | non | | Similar Products Used: | panaracer xc fire pro | | Bike Setup: | Scott 2008 mc20 XLcarbon frame,fork tallas,hope hubs and rims | | Bottom Line: | Exeptional tyre after using what I thought was the safest grippiest all round tyre in the panaracer xc fire pro I have now changed my mind because they eat trails alive and kill tree roots as though they are not there.Excellent on single track and xc in wet and dry.Cannot say anythin bad about this rubber! it keeps you safe and on your bike but puts you over your favourite track/xc route and single track FAST. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jay
a Weekend Warrior
from Centerville, Utah
Date Reviewed: August 26, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Midmountain Park City | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$31.00 | | Purchased At: | JensonUSA | | Strengths: | Climbs over roots and rocks wet or dry. Holds tight in soft corners. | | Weaknesses: | Like to see it in a 2.1 for the rear, but the 2.35 was efficient enough on the smooth sections. | | Similar Products Used: | Mostly Fire XCs. Tried out lots of others, but never found anything that both hooks up on the downhill and climbs technical rocky sections. | | Bike Setup: | Stumpy. Fox shock and forx. Stans. Panaracer Rampages front and rear. | | Bottom Line: | I just found my new favorite tire. Just cleaned two really tough rock-sections on the Ben Lomond trail yesterday. These things grip like none other. No slippage whatsoever across a wet wooden bridge the day before. I give the tire the credit. Bombing down, I stayed tight over rocks, roots, and loose sand. The only tire that can come close is the Kenda Nevs. I run Stans, so no pinch flats. I've torn the nobs off tires before on the Skyline trail (Lewis Peak), and the Rampages look great after beating them really hard (38 psi font/rear). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jon BonJovie
a Racer
from Marin
Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Windy ridge, china camp | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Strengths: | Well, it held up pretty well. A lot of rubber is underneath the tread of this tire so it rolls real good, but it leaves the sidewalls some what thin and flimsy. But, because its low profile you don't really feel it flexing in the twistys and its very predictable. But, it is a better rear tire than front, and does descend real good. The anti-snake bite thingy works real good, although i have found you can get away with 30psi on less rocky terrain. Its a bity tire, and climbs alright too.
| | Weaknesses: | Well, I've put hundreds of miles on this tire and it held up great until recently. I took it off the rim today and it has about 10 1/2 inch to an inch long slashes in the casing, that actually go all the way through the tire, and even some of the slashes were only on the inside which kinda boggles my mind. The tpi count is probably where you want it at for this tire, and in my case the rubber compound was perfect, not to soft and not to hard. Although, as it wore down it tended to get a little too slippery in the turns, but was easy to remedy just by shifting my weight farther back over the rear wheel. | | Similar Products Used: | All sorts of tires. WTB, Kenda, Schwalbe, Specialized, Hutchinson, Continental, Panaracers Fire Free ride. | | Bike Setup: | Trance 2 with good stuff. | | Bottom Line: | Buy this tire, it is a great rear tire. And for those of you out there who don't mind riding with a lot of rubber on the mountains and hills, running the rampage 2.35 in the rear and running the panaracer fire free ride 2.4 tire in the front is a great combanation. The burning edge side knobs really dig in great and my bike has never handled better. I'm kinda dissappointed in the casing, I've really thrased this tire and since it was so beefy I thought i could get away with it, but apparently not. But i'm sold on panaracer tires, they are great bang for the buck. Because even though it is still a little worn down, it still has tread, doesn't climb as well or descend as well as it used to, but if the casing actually would of held up I would still be using this tire just because it handles sooo good going down. Its worth pedaling around all that rubber around. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jon
a Weekend Warrior
from Denver, CO, USA
Date Reviewed: August 13, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Apex | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Orange Cycles | | Strengths: | Light for its size.
| | Weaknesses: | Pinch Flats too easy
Not as wide as Nevegal 2.35 on the same rim.
Doesn't hook up as well on wet trails. | | Similar Products Used: | Nevegal 2.35, Mythos, | | Bike Setup: | Yeti 575 | | Bottom Line: | I was disappointed when I got 2 pinch flats on the same ride. I'm used to riding my nevegal's at 36psi and I would never get a pinch flat. So I pumped the Rampage up to 40 and I didn't get any more flats but the traction really suffered. I appreciate that this is a light tire for its size but I get the feeling they went a little to far. I guess if you rode flat and smooth trails then they would be fine, but I can't see riding a 2.35 on smooth trails. The reason I go with a wide tire is so that I can run over the nasty stuff. I took them off and went back to the Nevegals. My friend said that the name rampage was appropriate, because after getting 2 pinch flats in the same ride, that is what you go into as you rip them off your bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Elliott
a Weekend Warrior
from Guilford, VT USA
Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Sidewinder - Kingdom Trails | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | BlueSkyCycling.com | | Strengths: | Sticks like burdock on a bears bottom. Climbs anything! | | Weaknesses: | Thin casing. Easily sliced and punctured. A little heavy | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer Cinders | | Bike Setup: | Pimped out Jamis XLT all mountain bad boy. | | Bottom Line: | These tires are the best climbers I've come across in a decade. That said, at Mt Snow a thin chicken wire punctured the top of the tire next to a knoby. No big deal I thought. The tiny puncture hole grew to a 1/4 inch tear. Now it's even larger. My cinders never would have torn like that. I'm not sure if this is a factory defect. I'm going to buy another because nothing climbs better on wet rock, wet roots, hardpacked dirt, sand and everything else out there in Northern New England. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
RideEverything
a
from Whistler, BC, Canada
Date Reviewed: June 22, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Super fast rolling tire and a decent all conditions tire. | | Weaknesses: | Likes to slide a bit to the side because the side knobs don't square the tire off. | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer Fire XC Pro and FR Pro, WTB TmberWolf and Dissent, Nokian NBX 2.1 | | Bike Setup: | Turner 6 Pack - Fox DHX 5, 2004 Marzocchi Z150 ETA, Mavic 321 rims, top end Race Face and Sram drivetrain and components. | | Bottom Line: | I am a dedicated Panaracer tire fan. I loved the Fire XC's when I was a cross country nerd. I moved to the Fire FR's when I moved into the pedal freeride category. The Fire FR's did the job exceptionally well in ALL conditions, so when I decided to move down in tire size I went with the Rampage 26". The tires have done everything I have expected a good all conditions tire to do. I only have a minor complaint and that is the side knobs aren't as prominent as the Fire FR's so they have a tendency to slide off of off camber rocks and roots a little more. But I have been riding in the wet since I have put these tires on. When it is wet everything will get a bit slippy! Hopefully I will remember to post an update after some more mileage.
I am stoked on the tires as I stated but I also get tires at a discounted rate so my value rating will be skewed. Also, I am not giving a top rating yet because I need to ride on the tires more. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jon BonJOvie
a Racer
from Marin, CA
Date Reviewed: February 2, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | zigzag, eldridge, old springs | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | universal cycles | | Strengths: | this is a nother review of this tire. Great tire, too bad i almost broke my collar bone, again, running it tubeless. The damn thing came right off the rim and lost all its air in less than a second and it happened so fast i ate it pretty hard | | Weaknesses: | Cannot run tubeless, for being such a heavy tire, it actually has pretty flimsy sidewalls and most of the rubber is on the top of the tire. | | Bottom Line: | This tire is pretty good with tubes, i recommend 1 pound salsa tubes and you can drop this tire down to 25 psi with it. Corners a lot better and really just keeps rolling pretty well. Although, all in all the tire plus the heavy tube probably almost weigh 1200 grams. Its worth it though, unless you like patching tubes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John BonJovie
a Racer
from Marin, CA
Date Reviewed: January 29, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Windy ridge, eldridge, old springs, | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Universal cycles | | Strengths: | Great tire, handles great, really grips well in all sorts of terain except shady fire road material at high speeds. | | Similar Products Used: | Wtb, Kenda, panaracer | | Bike Setup: | Trance 2 with Raceface evolve cranks, thomson 70mm stem, answer protaper bars, Reba Sl, Fox Rp3, Hayes 9xc with 7inch rotors and hope stainless steel lines. Time Carbon rxs atac pedals, xt front deraileur and rear cassette. mavic hand made rims with dt swiss hubs. Rampage front tire, nobby nic rear tire. | | Bottom Line: | Buy this tire, if your a great trail rider who wants reliability and a trust front tire. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Jeremy Peyton
a Cross Country Rider
from Jacksonville, Fl USA
Date Reviewed: January 24, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | San Falasco | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | Cycle Spectrum | | Strengths: | Great Cornering, Great Handling | | Weaknesses: | None Yet | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer Fire XC Pro | | Bike Setup: | 2006 Trek Fuel 80 | | Bottom Line: | If you can find them...GET THEM | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
phil carr
a Weekend Warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: January 3, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$55.00 | | Strengths: | Lightwieght, grippy, seem tough, clear easy | | Weaknesses: | Cost and limited to 2.35 at the moment | | Similar Products Used: | Panaracer DH pro 2.35, Tioga Factory DH 2.3 | | Bike Setup: | SC Bullit - FR build up | | Bottom Line: | I have been looking for a new set of tyres for weeks and finally settled on the rampages based upon the reviews I have found for the 29" set.
Anyway the tyres roll really well and I found myself with gears to spare on routes where I would usually be spinning away in the granny ring. It was a revelation. On the descents I was able to rail into berms that previously I was worried about. The tyres don't look as if they should grip as well as they do, but they do. On wet rock and roots they coped no better/worse than any other tyre I have used. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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