Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/bike-industry-mtb-standards/ This too.

Hearing good things about the WTB range.

Can’t give you a personal review as they’re spec’d on my Cotic that’s not here for a couple of months :(

What make is the hardtail?

Some kind of minion???

Some kind of Schwalbe for half the price.

I use these sometimes. I like them

On a MK1 Sherpa with a 2.25" tyre. Every ride at the moment just gets clogged up within no time at all.

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Bummer

Drop the tire down to 2”

Or skip riding claggy muddy stuff

agree. in the noughties there was a school of thought that you have the fat (or fatter) tyre up front for steering and grip and a narrower tyre at the back to let you put the power down.

Cheers. May go for like a 2 or 2.1. is it bad to plough through it when mid ride at the moment? Other than scuffing the paint a bit.
Coincidentally, my mate was on a rad original 90s MTB and had no issues at all.

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It will just take the paint off but most of it around that area will go sooner or latter. Mk1 Sherpa was from another mountain biking age when a 2.35" was considered mahoosive.

Or skip riding claggy muddy stuff

Steady on there, chap

I went to Bedgebury in November 2006 shortly after it had opened. It was like the feckin' Somme and I've never been back (some bloke ~I've since lost touch with in the first pic and me on a see-saw in 2nd)

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Man that was a trip. One of the group ended up in a small river.

She was South African and being fully submerged in even a small stream in England in November was a bit of a shock for her.

I stuck to the Surrey Hills after that.

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I'd never dream of taking people out riding in those conditions...

;-)

Just ask @t_w

Minion SS for Bedgebury today, worked very well.

MTB riding of nightmares

Only good place to ride in mid winter is a certain Welsh trail centre

everywhere else can fuck off

See you in spring. Surrey Hills will be your local now won't it?

Was out in the Surrey hills today. Some of it was fine, some was not. Flinty Badman in particular was a mix of slippy flint, slippy chalk, slippy off camber roots, all hidden by leaves. However, really impressed by the Conti Trail King in 29x2.6 flavour. I found some grip where others found non. Good mud shedding and not too slow on the long schlep back to Kingston.

Think I’m equidistant from everywhere now!

Nobby Nic // Rocket Ron combo today. Good mud clearing ability and didn’t fall off. Call that a win.

Went for this cheap hans dampf - https://www.merlincycles.com/schwalbe-hans-dampf-addix-2019-folding-tyre-275-149062.html

I'd never dream of taking people out riding in those conditions...

;-)

Just ask @t_w

errr

and this was a badgers summer edition ride

i'm sure i don't need to spell out how damp my socks and trainers are above, in fact they're still wet 2 years on

i'm sure i don't need to spell out how damp my socks and trainers are above, in fact they're still wet 2 years on

Been putting your feet down eh? That'll be a time penalty

I've got one of them up front and, a Nobby Nic in the rear, it's plenty grippy in normal conditions.

@BareNecessities were you saying double Dirty Dan for Epping?