Tires

[Mbot]

Stephen Foord is the calgary distributor for Goldentyre
403-630-6359 any questions call

[cycleworks]

Both my store (Calgary) and my lovely Foothills store sell Goldentyre as well! Plus we have a great stock of IRCs!

[Braap791]

Don at Pro Action also has some if you are in the north end.

[dirtyboy]

I might put on fresh meat if the conditions are wet. Is it going to rain out there on Friday or Saturday?

[Dakota_c69]

Both.

[MtnBlue]

I might put on fresh meat if the conditions are wet. Is it going to rain out there on Friday or Saturday?

20 mm on friday

[axel99]

Proverb:
Fresh meats will serve you well when you need to conquer side hills

[SkipROFABlue1]

Who's selling the golden tyre in town ?

If your in the Airdrie area... Pro Action Suspension...

[Xcfjohn]

So when you say golden tires don't last long how long do you mean? Would you get a summer out of the rear if you ride evey weekend? Or less than that I'm looking for more grip.

[boland]

So when you say golden tires don't last long how long do you mean? Would you get a summer out of the rear if you ride evey weekend? Or less than that I'm looking for more grip.

Possibly if you're only riding once a week

[Braap791]

So when you say golden tires don't last long how long do you mean? Would you get a summer out of the rear if you ride evey weekend? Or less than that I'm looking for more grip.

I get about a month out of a GT 230 Rear. Riding/Racing 2-4 times a week. Traction for days but you do pay for it

[MtnBlue]

anybody try a Vee rubber Tackee?

[RJHenry]

So when you say golden tires don't last long how long do you mean? Would you get a summer out of the rear if you ride evey weekend? Or less than that I'm looking for more grip.

Are you looking for more "stickiness" grip or "traction" grip?

For "traction" in mud or loose soil, the knob height helps a lot. For this I favour the IRC (to which there is almost no comparison on the large lug front), though I did run a GT230 once and it was a good tire.
For "stickiness" on wet logs and roots, rubber compound helps a lot. The GT216 seems to be the favoured solution these days, though it has DOT legal lugs just 1/2" tall when brand new. Here is a review that you might find helpful: http://www.directmotocross.com/news/fea ... tyre-gt216

I spent time with Stephen Foord recently and he was running a GT216X that had NOTHING left on it - the knobs were scrubbed from both directions and center row was at most 1/4" tall - but it was so sticky that it still performed for him on the endurocross track. NOTE - there are no muskegs or mud holes on an endurocross track!

The tradeoff with the rubber compound is, of course, rapid wear and shorter tire life. If you are a heavy handed roost machine, do not expect to get spectacular tire life, particularly from a soft tire compound. If you are a lugger and lay the power down smoothly, you can likely get decent wear from a GT216.

I have put almost 100 hours/2000 km on my bike and wore out two rears and a front, plus another couple tire swaps for studs, sand, last year's front, etc. that probably equals another rear and most of a front. So call it 35 hours for a rear, 60-70 hours for a front? I run the tires both directions and call it a day around the "60% tall" point - so lug is still more than half of original height, but is rounded off and losing effectiveness. Others run them farther, but I feel performance suffers.

By that math, if you did a 40 km/2hr ride every weekend, you could get 17 weekends from an IRC M5B - that's a summer.

Hope that helps!
RJH

[MtnBlue]

Nice thing about the IRC M5B is you can take a knobby knife to it and freshen up the leading edge. As RJ mention the lugs are big and tall

[Xcfjohn]

Wow thanks for the Info RJheney yes I was meaning stickeyness. I did my first ride of swaneys at the weekend and seemed not to have good grip on the roots and rock parts. I'm still running the original tire my ktm came with I got last year.