What do you guys think about reversing a tire...
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Why would you want to do that?
I think all the pointy bits would be on the inside, thus giving you a racing slick.
have you tried changing your rider position instead?
Just flip it. If you don't like it, you can always flip it back. I found that tire worked a lot better on the rear run backwards.
Fellow Monkey Skookum runs his Panaracer Smoke Classic rear tire in reverse. Years ago I would swap reverse my Bontrager Jones tires for wet or dry conditions. I say try it and see if it works - the idea is not all that radical.
I know. Like I said, I found it worked better flipping the rear, but I'm riding dusty Socal conditions. Your terrain might not like it as much.
Remember to use soapy water on the bead when you're airing it back up or you might have a bitch of a time getting the beads to seal.
Just do it
Remember to use soapy water on the bead when you're airing it back up or you might have a bitch of a time getting the beads to seal.
Just do it
Ok....Originally posted by Silver
I know. Like I said, I found it worked better flipping the rear, but I'm riding dusty Socal conditions. Your terrain might not like it as much.
Remember to use soapy water on the bead when you're airing it back up or you might have a bitch of a time getting the beads to seal.
Just do it
these are my first tubless tires... this has been quite the learning experience.
run them front and rear w/ the knob bitting into the ground instead of the tire kinda rolling on the angled part of the knob.....Originally posted by stosh
YOu can't tell her but each of the center nubs are angled on one side. They are fast but they can't climb. They just slip....
Maxxis Larsen TT's
I run a Gazzaloddi backwards on the front of my DH bike. I always tell people that I feel it performs better that way for my style of riding. But really it's because I put it on backwards by mistake, and it's such a pain to get a Gazzaloddi off a 321 
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that's the way the pythons are designed to run and they have a "similar" low profile knob. i know a lot of ppl who run them differently, like they'll run the front tire like i recommended then the rear backwards. everyone has different opinions. but i'd try them out like i said to, well if you were smart anyways
lol jk, but seriously just check em out like that and see hwo you like em.
jeebus hail-mary crab cakes, it's just a tire. flip it around and try for yourself. the reason you don't like the TT right now is because it's a piss-poor wet conditions tire.
I have a pair that i cut every second diagonal knob out of. much better in the wet, but for thsi time of year you'd be better off with a mimo, scorpion, or comp S. Also, run less pressure.
I have a pair that i cut every second diagonal knob out of. much better in the wet, but for thsi time of year you'd be better off with a mimo, scorpion, or comp S. Also, run less pressure.
thought I would wander in a share my .02 worth
Stosh, if I remember you are new to FS Bikes, right?
It takes a different approach/positioning in order to climb effectively on a FS Bike.
It takes a different approach/positioning in order to climb effectively on a FS Bike.
that's the most intelegent thing i think i have heard you say yet.
the mimo is pretty much the same design principle except it has less and lower profile knobs.
why dont you just flip the skewer around?Originally posted by Echo
I run a Gazzaloddi backwards on the front of my DH bike. I always tell people that I feel it performs better that way for my style of riding. But really it's because I put it on backwards by mistake, and it's such a pain to get a Gazzaloddi off a 321
also i cannot find that tire, is it ramped? if stosh flips the tt around he's really going to reduce his braking power.
My front brake wouldn't work too well...
braking is a weakness, your better than that.Originally posted by Echo
My front brake wouldn't work too well...
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exactly, i know you are being facetious here but that is what makes a better mud tire.
you are just hopeless fatty
no i really meant that. the mimo's are GReat in mud i ran several races with them in total mud and they handled well. They did not however handle muddy wet rock climbs or decents well at all and were probably worse than pythons in those conditions because of the ramps and small knobs but they did well in all other conditions.Originally posted by Capt. Burntout
exactly, i know you are being facetious here but that is what makes a better mud tire.
you are just hopeless fatty
stop calling me names especially when you have NO clue what your talking about.
lets all go out back and see who can piss the farthest!
I'm egging you on, i know, but tires are so personal and regional that arguments like this are so great, it's like arguing yankee's v. redsox or ford v. chevy.
I do however take umbrage to your claim that i don't know what i'm talking about. it is a well established that i am omnipotent and have ulitmate power over all things bicycle.
well the above statement may not be entirely accurate i do know what works for me, and people who ride like me in conditons like me.
You are in houston right? They dirt there is markedly different than east coast dirt so of cours we are going to have different experinces.
i for one am willing to testify on behalf of capt knowing way more then one should now.....Originally posted by Capt. Burntout
lets all go out back and see who can piss the farthest!
I'm egging you on, i know, but tires are so personal and regional that arguments like this are so great, it's like arguing yankee's v. redsox or ford v. chevy.
I do however take umbrage to your claim that i don't know what i'm talking about. it is a well established that i am omnipotent and have ulitmate power over all things bicycle.
well the above statement may not be entirely accurate i do know what works for me, and people who ride like me in conditons like me.
You are in houston right? They dirt there is markedly different than east coast dirt so of cours we are going to have different experinces.
i have said and have never had any doubt that you have used and broken a lot of stuff. you called me fat and that's just way off base and detracts from credibility.
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Farrah Fawcet?? Ummmm s e x y.Originally posted by ghettorigged
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