|   Best tire for Slickrock? (Moab) | KL
Feb 12, 2002 1:07 PM | | To everyone who has ridden Moab:
What is the best ride on slickrock? |
| re: Best tire for Slickrock? (Moab) | KL
Feb 12, 2002 1:07 PM | | Sorry, that is : What is the best tire on slickrock? Sorry. |
| re: Best tire for Slickrock? (Moab) | Kitchenware
Feb 12, 2002 1:26 PM | | Anything that you don't plan on using anywhere else, slickrock eats tires. You can hear your tires being eaten away as you ride. :)
~kw |
| Doesn't seem to matter... | Rock
Feb 12, 2002 1:25 PM | | Whatever you use you're going to wear it out.
What I've always done for Slickrock is to use my oldest worn out tires for that particular trail, then put on some nice new Velociraptors (or whatever you like)for the rest of Moab.
Rock |
| To ride slickrock, you need a Tom Slick | 2melow
Feb 12, 2002 1:34 PM | | he he. Any tire will work fine, but if you wanna ride Poison Spider, Amassa Back, etc you'll want something with a bit more meat on it. |
| Wilgripper Rock | dcm311
Feb 12, 2002 1:39 PM | | Michilan makes a slickrock specific tire. I used them in Moab for a couple days and now they go on my commuter. Dirt cheap at about $8 each. |
| Wilgripper Rock Where? | KL
Feb 12, 2002 1:43 PM | | Where can you get these tires for $8 a piece? Thanks. |
| Wilgripper Rock Where? | dcm311
Feb 12, 2002 8:44 PM | | I just did a google search and didn't see them anywhere under twenty. I just had my lbs order them for me and they were $16 for both. Mabey on closeout from QBP or something.
Cheers,
Daniel |
| Use what you are used to riding | pikabike
Feb 12, 2002 1:52 PM | | This goes for bikes generally, not just tires.
The thing with slickrock is that it grips rubber very well (unless it's wet). You can use full knobbies if you want. That's all I've ever used there, and that's what most riders I've seen there were using. Knobbies didn't hold anybody back from riding anything.
Because the riding conditions are so different from most mountain biking conditions, I think the benefit of using tires (bike) whose characteristics you know outweighs any additional traction to be gained by using slicks. Unless of course you have used slicks before and like them.
Besides, you'll need some kind of treaded tire for other riding in the area. |
| Ritchey used to have a tire... | bones
Feb 12, 2002 2:12 PM | | ...called the "Moby-Bite" it was a 2.1 plus completely bald tire. It was amazing for slickrock but good for nothing else except riding on a trainer. A buddy of mine ran a set of semi-knobbies and by the end of the first loop he had very rough slicks. His traction was also nowhere near as good as what I had.
Actually, just searched and Cambria has them:
http://www.cambriabike.com/tires/ritchey_moby_bite_front-rear_tire.htm
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| Description from Cambria's site... | CraigH
Feb 12, 2002 4:30 PM | | $19
"Ritchey Moby Bite Front/Rear Tire SALE!!!
Sticky slick tire for riding on Slickrock or city streets. Traction fins hold the trail when riding across steep inclines. Wide tire makes a great cruiser or sand tire. This tire is a blast to cruise on. Wire bead. Black/Black. Size: 26 x 2.1" 690g (Blemished Gray/Skinwall on SALE in HOT DEALS for $12)
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| tried them on the street... | bones
Feb 12, 2002 4:59 PM | | Very cool tire, right before the rain fell. Then things became interesting.
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