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Continental Der Kaiser Rammstein Projekt?

Drth Vadr

Monkey
Oct 5, 2011
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Anyone running this tire tubeless? From past experience with Continental tires, non specific tubeless tires weeped from the sidewalls when set-up tubeless. I'm hoping that is not the case with these, but if so; oh well.
 

motomike

Turbo Monkey
Jan 19, 2005
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North Carolina
I tried a set last summer. Set up tubeless, didn't weep from the sidewalls. However they wore out at an incredibly fast rate compared to, say, a Butcher.
 

Drth Vadr

Monkey
Oct 5, 2011
120
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I tried a set last summer. Set up tubeless, didn't weep from the sidewalls. However they wore out at an incredibly fast rate compared to, say, a Butcher.
Well, how did they perform? They will be here Friday, so there is no going back now. Don't really care how fast they wear or how long they last. More concerned with performance through the lifespan.
Rode Clutch last year and was not crazy impressed on the dry dusty days. I hate supporting Specialized, but I got them in a trade for some left over tires from my 29er experiment
 

motomike

Turbo Monkey
Jan 19, 2005
4,584
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North Carolina
Well, how did they perform? They will be here Friday, so there is no going back now. Don't really care how fast they wear or how long they last. More concerned with performance through the lifespan.
Rode Clutch last year and was not crazy impressed on the dry dusty days. I hate supporting Specialized, but I got them in a trade for some left over tires from my 29er experiment
They were good for sure, that's the trade you get for them wearing out fast!
 

Verskis

Monkey
May 14, 2010
458
8
Tampere, Finland
I haven't tried them tubeless, but at least with the tubes they are now my favorite DH tires for dry conditions. The grip is great and they are really predictable. I don't even think they are wearing any faster compared to Supertacky Maxxis tires, they just wear differently. With Supertacky, the knobs start to rip apart from the base. On Continental DH tires, the top layer of rubber seems to start slowly peeling away at some point of the life of the tire. There are some cracks on the knobs as well, but not so bad as on Supertacky tires.

I wish they made a single ply version as well for the trailbike.
 
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Drth Vadr

Monkey
Oct 5, 2011
120
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I wish they made a single ply version as well for the trailbike.
I felt the exact opposite about Rubber Queens a few yrs ago, I wished they made a DH version. So when these came out or better said, became affordable, I knew these would be my next tire.