somewon
03-30-2010, 11:39 AM
Hi all,
I wanted to give anyone interested in new tires a review of my new meats. I bought a set of 22X12X10 kenda bearclaws and mounted them on Douglas ultimate rims. this past sunday i went out and rode at milford lake in KS. for those of you that haven't ridden that spot there are areas of sand (chat) near the lake itself and rocks pretty much everywhere else. Due to all this wonderful rain we've been having the last week the trails were pretty tacky with some nice puddles thrown in.
my first impression of these tires when I got them was that they are way more agressive than the picture shows. The lugs are deep and closer spaced than shown in the pictures on RMATV. once I hit the trail I noticed these tires like higher wheel speeds, you can crawl with them, but 3rd gear through the trails is where they are at their best. These tires worked great, where the factory knobbies would just dig holes in the sand when I had to do an "emergency" turn and hill climb in the sand, these threw a nice roost and took me up like my paddles. The rocks were no problem at all, It climbed up everything i threw at them without any problems at all. rock ledges, gnarly roots, and log hops all seemed much easier than they were with my stock knobs.
I was worried that with IRS I was going to have a harder fight due to the increased traction and larger diameter, but the diffrence wasn't noticable to me. The only disadvantage I saw with these tires is they are a little on the heavy side, but what 6 ply tire isn't?
All in all, these tires did awesome, and I am definately using them for the heartland challenge this year.
-Adam
I wanted to give anyone interested in new tires a review of my new meats. I bought a set of 22X12X10 kenda bearclaws and mounted them on Douglas ultimate rims. this past sunday i went out and rode at milford lake in KS. for those of you that haven't ridden that spot there are areas of sand (chat) near the lake itself and rocks pretty much everywhere else. Due to all this wonderful rain we've been having the last week the trails were pretty tacky with some nice puddles thrown in.
my first impression of these tires when I got them was that they are way more agressive than the picture shows. The lugs are deep and closer spaced than shown in the pictures on RMATV. once I hit the trail I noticed these tires like higher wheel speeds, you can crawl with them, but 3rd gear through the trails is where they are at their best. These tires worked great, where the factory knobbies would just dig holes in the sand when I had to do an "emergency" turn and hill climb in the sand, these threw a nice roost and took me up like my paddles. The rocks were no problem at all, It climbed up everything i threw at them without any problems at all. rock ledges, gnarly roots, and log hops all seemed much easier than they were with my stock knobs.
I was worried that with IRS I was going to have a harder fight due to the increased traction and larger diameter, but the diffrence wasn't noticable to me. The only disadvantage I saw with these tires is they are a little on the heavy side, but what 6 ply tire isn't?
All in all, these tires did awesome, and I am definately using them for the heartland challenge this year.
-Adam