Whoever carried this thing into the middle of a ski-slope...kudos!
One thing that had me wondering for the last couple of years (and still does) are the current generation of ADV-tyres.
They've got near-all of the offroad traits of an old-style knobby in the rough stuff.... yet stick like shit-to-a-plushpile-carpet on the smooth stuff.
The old rules just don't seem to apply anymore where a knobbie is pretty poor on roadholding, deadly in the wet, wears like butter-in-the-sun on asphalt. etc while
doing its fabulous grip thing on the dirt.
The "old-style" ADV 80/20s were generally pretty good and sticky onroad with a a fair grip on gravel and long life, but dangerously hopeless when things got rough. Some were better than others.
The best compromise "Dual Grip" hoop on the market for many years was the Mitas 07...period.
Reliable grip wet/ dry...seal or gravel....usually good for around 8-9000km (in my case... which I've learned to accept as 'standard", only the Heidenau K60s lasted longer.... at the painful cost of coming down twice on wet asphalt, cracked ribs in Tassie etc)
Watching Squiz and Marty cutting up the twisties wet or dry...then climbing rocky, loose stuff or ploughing slick +sloshy sections with ease.....all on "KNOBBY" hoops like Dunlop 606s, AX41's or Motoz Tractionators really had me wondering!!
Maybe it's me getting more chicken with age, maybe I'm just going backwards as a rider?
Having become "real friendly" with an AX41 front over the last few months, then swapping the 75% used Mitas07 rear for a Motoz Tractionator Adventure a couple of days before this 3-day affair, has finally convinced me of a different ballgame in ADV tyre-land.
The old rules don't apply anymore!
Trust just has to be earned, there's no other way. Both of those hoops have done that, while still miles from exploring either limits.
AND THAT IS what it looks like when a Big Yam S10 dances the twisties on a pair of AX41 dirt-knobbies!
Barely 15mins later....
WOoohhhooo....hit the picks!! We're home!
Need a chisel?
Singles and lost bolts....groan
Maybe it's not just bikes.....
