High rollers but Grippier

ddraver

High Guys

I ve been using my High Rollers 2,35 tyres for a while (cos I think they re great in the dry to wet rock) but was forced to change to my Bonty Mud X's for the mud (and then the snow)! I ve used them elsewhere through laziness and I ve been really impressed with the increased grip of the bonty's and was thinking of switching the High Rollers to something a bit...erm...spikier? Does anyone have any reccomendations?

I'm gonna put some old Panaracer Fire XC pros back on to see if i like them

ilovedirt

what riding are you doing? when rode freeride i used to rock intense 909 FRO tyres, they were great, really really grippy but the compound was fairly soft so only really suited to DH/FR

ddraver

sorry - XC/Trail riding - The High Rollers can survive at a trail centre but struggle further afield in Wales/Snowdonia

ilovedirt

These might do you, intense 909 26x2.35, very chunky tyres but grip like hell. Thought they only did them in 2.5, 2.35 might do you. As i say though, it's a very tacky compound so they're not the fastest or longest lasting tyres ever, but boy do they grip.

Stu 74

Get a super tacky swampthing for the front - sticks to just about anything like sh1t to a blanket! Very slow on tarmac though.

Leave a highroller on the back as a swampy on the back will slow you down too much.

Stu

Northwind

Bit of a odd one this, in my experience the Mud Xs are great in mud (duh) and snow but only just adequate on most other surfaces. I've not used that Highroller but they're well regarded. I mean, my 2.1 nevegal stick-e front is a lot more effective on hardpack, rocks and roots than my Mud X, and it's Kenda's direct competitor for the 2.35 Highroller...

(the 2.35 Nevegal is pretty damn big, because Kenda actually know how to operate a ruler unlike Maxxis, and in stick-e it's slow, but the 2.1 is my default all round tyre)

ilovedirt

i'm running a 2.1 high roller on the back and a 2.1 tioga factory DH on the front (the tioga is more like 2.25) and that's working really well for me right now. I had a 2.1 high roller on the front, but it just couldn't cut it in proper winter mud.

grumsta

Can't see how you would want anything grippier than a super tacky high roller - you wouldn't move!

ddraver

well I don't have the super Tacky HR - I have to pedal uphill too!!

Perhaps a spikier front tyre is whats needed leaving the HR on the back - this is new territory for me! Its going on a Hard tail so I tend to lean on the front tyre and let the back sort out itself a bit...

ilovedirt

yeah, the high roller 2.1 was good for me on the back when i put it the wrong way around, it's thin enough to cut through the gloopy surface mud and then when it connects, it gives you more traction because the knobs stick out more, if you see what i mean. I like a nice knobbly front tyre like the tioga though, because as long as that grips properly on descents, then your rear end will follow. Although if i ran that setup in the dry, it would slow me down quite a bit.