snuffcityrider
Active Member
Snake,
Is that a Porsche sitting to the left in your picture?
Is that a Porsche sitting to the left in your picture?
I would never, no not ever, suggest you give up such a wholesome activity as you described. Your description is why you are young at heart, and enjoy your bike the way you do. Never give that up. I won't either. As long as there is still a twitch in my right wrist, and dirt coursing though my veins, I will need a shot of that dirty, dusty, magical grit for a very long time. I'm just not convinced my tire choice is making that much improvement in that environment.snakebitten said:But holy cow, I would be heartbroken to have to give up my hooligan trip home from work everyday which consists of cutting across a couple of fields, then terrorizing 2 bunnies that live in a wooded lot I cut through, exiting onto my dead end road by coming through a big drainage ditch, then finally cutting back across that ditch, instead of turning onto my dirt drive, and finally BLASTING dirt-rock-mud down the centerline (so my wife doesn't complain of ruts) to my pond......where I slow to a crawl and drive up onto the back covered porch.
I can personally endorse a K60 for riding from VA to Nova Scotia, to Newfoundland. That's what I used on my ride up there (as well as the mountains of VA and WV). Perfectly good tire for the trip. My longest lasting K60 was the one I took to Newfoundland. I needed to ride a LOT of slab on that trip, and the K60 did great. I did not do the Trans Lab, but the K60 will handle that just fine.firedad415 said:I am just not wanting to get a set of tires that chant like Tibetan Monks while I head to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in late May, yet grant me inspiring passage on both the Trans Lab Hwy and all the Tarmac in between, while still being a good tire to hit the local mountains around Charlottesville VA and many of the roads in between here and there....wherever "there" may take me, paved or not!
I can appreciate your confusion, I thought the same thing when mounting them. Even though the little arrows were going the correct direction, it still seemed odd. Ultimately I checked the photo's of Snake's bike to make sure I wasn't crazy. Either we were both wrong at the same time, or that's the way the manufacturer wants them mounted.Madhatter said:is it just me or does the black tenere have one of the tires mounted backwards... side view seems to show the tread pattern going in opposite directions... the subject is interesting, i'll be purchasing my first set of replacement tires soon, though I'm still undecided as to how dirty I want the tires to be.....
A little off topic, but the question's been asked...snakebitten said:<snip> (By the way, I have no idea which tire machine fits my vision. Is there a good one for about the price of that stack of 10 BigBlocks?