Whats happened to tyres?
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Wet screams are a terrible choice for all round tyres. You run them on anything apart from total slop and there'll be nothing left of them within a couple of rides. To be honest, unless you're racing then something like a high roller will be fine on all terrain. I know some anoraks will come back and tell me that different tyres suit different terrain, and this is right - for top level riders. Yet every year we go to the alps, we get up on a rainy day and see loads of neck bracers in the lift queues with their wet screams on, and still overtake loads of them on sets of year old high rollers. They don't make that much difference.0
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Majski wrote:Wet screams are a terrible choice for all round tyres. You run them on anything apart from total slop and there'll be nothing left of them within a couple of rides. To be honest, unless you're racing then something like a high roller will be fine on all terrain. I know some anoraks will come back and tell me that different tyres suit different terrain, and this is right - for top level riders. Yet every year we go to the alps, we get up on a rainy day and see loads of neck bracers in the lift queues with their wet screams on, and still overtake loads of them on sets of year old high rollers. They don't make that much difference.
But they were sorely lacking on Snowdonia's natural trails - to the point where they were a little frustrating.0 -
YeehaaMcgee wrote:Majski wrote:Wet screams are a terrible choice for all round tyres. You run them on anything apart from total slop and there'll be nothing left of them within a couple of rides. To be honest, unless you're racing then something like a high roller will be fine on all terrain. I know some anoraks will come back and tell me that different tyres suit different terrain, and this is right - for top level riders. Yet every year we go to the alps, we get up on a rainy day and see loads of neck bracers in the lift queues with their wet screams on, and still overtake loads of them on sets of year old high rollers. They don't make that much difference.
But they were sorely lacking on Snowdonia's natural trails - to the point where they were a little frustrating.
I live in the center of Birmingham? I ride, regularly, all over the UK
What I basically mean is for the average rider you don't need to be changing tyres for different locations. I've never had an issue with high rollers or minions. Though currently i've got some bontrager things that look like minions, they came on the session and they seem fine too.0 -
Majski wrote:What I basically mean is for the average rider you don't need to be changing tyres for different locations. I've never had an issue with high rollers or minions. Though currently i've got some bontrager things that look like minions, they came on the session and they seem fine too.
There is no "one tyre to suit all", so it's worth finding what works best where you ride.0 -
Ignoring all the garbage in the middle, and answering the original question, they got better. Much better.I don't do smileys.
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YeehaaMcgee wrote:Majski wrote:What I basically mean is for the average rider you don't need to be changing tyres for different locations. I've never had an issue with high rollers or minions. Though currently i've got some bontrager things that look like minions, they came on the session and they seem fine too.
There is no "one tyre to suit all", so it's worth finding what works best where you ride.
I suppose if you ride mostly in one place that's fair enough. I ride in tonnes of different places and am far far too lazy to change tyres and don't want to buy more than one set so I have got used to using high rollers / minions on everything and find they're ok as a good average. I'm definately not good enough to be doing one run of a DH track then changing tyres at the bottom to suit conditions0 -
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YeehaaMcgee wrote:Majski wrote:I'm definitely not good enough to be doing one run of a DH track then changing tyres at the bottom to suit conditions
I know, but it's something I see happen on a regular basis and it's pretty cringeworthy when you see people do it then continue to crawl down draggin their brakes the whole way0 -
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Yes, and your point? Or does everything people want to mention need to get pre-approved by you?0
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I'm just a little peeved at how it came across. You seemed to be suggesting I'd said things which I hadn't.0
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You seem to be a little paranoid, I didn't suggest that you said anything!0
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Majski wrote:You seem to be a little paranoid0
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He is he doesn't know Yee yet enough to ignore 90% of what he says hehe
But a nice guy i might add (not you Yee).0 -
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Thewaylander wrote:He is he doesn't know Yee yet enough to ignore 90% of what he says hehe
But a nice guy i might add (not you Yee).I don't do smileys.
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gotta laugh first day i put the scream on and the sun comes out!!! yesterday and today are +25 C oh well it will be winter soon :roll:opinions are worth exactly what you pay for them ;-)
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I'd really suggest taking it off if you haven't already, it wont last 5 minutes in the dry.0
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bennett_346 wrote:Majski wrote:You seem to be a little paranoid
I was on MBUK years and years ago but when it became BR a load of us joined another forum, which is still running - just not very strongly!0 -
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Probably, just the ones I know started using that forum so I did too.0
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Majski wrote:Probably, just the ones I know started using that forum so I did too.I don't do smileys.
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minions have now been ordered as my oem are Cr*p in the dry as well!!opinions are worth exactly what you pay for them ;-)
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Just to update on 2 downhill bits on carron valley the maxxis are 9 seconds faster over half a mile than the continentals thaw ax huge differenceopinions are worth exactly what you pay for them ;-)
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