|   Best tires for Moab Utah riding | mooseknuckle
Feb 25, 2003 8:25 PM | | I'm heading out mid April and am hoping I already have the optimal tires for riding the area. Also, using Stan's. Can anyone reccommend the best tires?
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| re: Best tires for Moab Utah riding | Chris B
Feb 25, 2003 9:04 PM | | Well, for the pure slickrock you might want a fairly slick fat tire (like the Ritchey TomSlick I think it's called) or some well-used regular fat tires, as the slickrock will be rough on any knobby for any lengthy ride, and you want as much rubber in contact with the slickrock as you can manage. For the rides that have lots of other surfaces to contend with, such as Porcupine Rim, you might prefer a nice all round purpose fat tire (I prefer MotoRaptors from WTB in the 2.4 size myself). I didn't ride slimed tires (and havent gone notube yet) and had no problems (one of the guys at a shop explained I would probably run into more thorns/spines by riding the streets in town). |
| Road slicks for slick rock trail...... | FreeRangeChicken
Feb 26, 2003 8:08 AM | | ....they work great. On Slickrock trail you spend about 95% of your time riding on sandstone. I ride Panaracer Fire XC Pro on other trails(Porcupine Rim, Amasa Back, Flat Pass, etc...). A good all around tire. |
| Thanks to you both. I'm doing Porcupine rim nm. | mooseknuckle
Feb 26, 2003 10:49 AM | | nm |
| Porcupine rim gonna hurt... | Dirt Pilot
Feb 26, 2003 12:59 PM | | ...Your face will be all streached out and sore from having a big goofy grin on your face all day long!
What tires? I'd say your old ones. All the loose stuff on Porcupine tears them up and the Slickrock isn't too easy on them either. I used well worn Fire XC Pros out there last May and had a blast.
Have fun, I'm going the second week in May. I can't fuggin'wait!!! |
| I have a smile on my face just thinking about it. | mooseknuckle
Feb 27, 2003 12:58 PM | | As a matter of fact, have so fire cx pros ready to do the job.
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