how do magic aksion tyres compare?

ianbar
ianbar Posts: 1,354
edited August 2013 in Workshop
bit late since i have bought them now lol but got the aksium wheels and so the tube and tyres too.how do they compare to other tyres? i have been looking at schwalbe durano or ultremo or even michelin pro race 3?
enigma esprit
cannondale caad8 tiagra 2012

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  • BruceG
    BruceG Posts: 347
    Why dont you use the "MAVIC" tyres, and let us know?
  • ianbar
    ianbar Posts: 1,354
    been out for a ride just now, and apart from them not helping me avoid a ruddy dog running in front of me! it was a success, i could felt lots more grip and the wheels have definitely got me round a bit faster, how they compare i don't know since i only used the standard tyres that came with the bike when i got it ,hence the question really.
    enigma esprit
    cannondale caad8 tiagra 2012
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    "magic aksion" == mavic aksium by any chance ???
  • indysmith
    indysmith Posts: 276
    andy_wrx wrote:
    "magic aksion" == mavic aksium by any chance ???
    The tyres that come with the Aksium WTS wheelset are actually called "Aksion".
    I have a pair. So far, so good. No punctures after around a thousand miles.
    They do seem to slit quite easily though and seem to pick up a lot of debris. I'm forever picking flints and bits of glass out of them, and super-gluing up slits.
    They will be replaced.
  • Rightful Gumbo
    Rightful Gumbo Posts: 123
    A seriously bad tyre, no grip in the wet, I did the long french revolution on them and coming round the roundabouts going back into calais I almost came off! Also they are so hard to get on to the rim on both of my wheel sets I almost gave up! at the moment they might be going in the bin having ony done 500 miles!
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    I imagine they will whisk you off to pastures new in no time when you utter the immortal phase "Piff, Paff,Puff". :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • binsted
    binsted Posts: 182
    Rightful Gumbo wrote:
    A seriously bad tyre, no grip in the wet, I did the long french revolution on them and coming round the roundabouts going back into calais I almost came off! Also they are so hard to get on to the rim on both of my wheel sets I almost gave up! at the moment they might be going in the bin having ony done 500 miles!


    Funny how tyres are such a subjective topic. I took off a pair of Mavic Aksion and replaced with GP4000s which have been so bad with punctures and cutting that I have binned them and put back the Aksions, so from my point of view they are certainly good tyres for the c**p Hampshire lanes.

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