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Tire recommendations?

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jazg:
running kenda, carlsbad and its all over the place :oops: loosing nobblies all the time. but maybe using it for the wrong thing...my 2cents!! :-P

Albertan:
jazg, what terrain are you running the Kenda Carlsbad on?  I'm running the Carlsbad sticky, and it wears fairly fast, but on hard  pack, dry clay, and even into a bit more intermediate stuff it hooks up well and is controllable.  I didn't chunk off any knobbies, but I've never run it on rocks and boulders.

KXcam22:
For the millville rear I generally flip it around after the knobs are rounded. I can't say that I have notice a traction difference running it either direction.  I have a 756 on my 450 and I am surprised at how fast it is wearing, 7 hrs and not looking so good. Cam.

jazg:
mostly sand with the occasional rock outcrop. obviously sand turns pretty loose in corners and i just loose the front end and start snapping off brake levers! :-P i guess i'm lossing the knobblies over the rocks. from what i can gather the guy i bought the bike from with that tire on was mostly riding on hard pack.
doing a tire change this week :-D

KXcam22:
I have a lot of sharp rocks in my terrain.  Some of the staircases (steep hills with intermittent 2' ledges) are entirely composed of rock.  I can vouch that the Millville doesn't shed knobs in that stuff.  Towards the end of the tire life I have found a couple of the smaller side knobs that were were split down the center with the back half gone.  I didn't think that was too bad.   But then I don't attack these with full throttle, more of a throttle control, finese thing, to get up them.  Jazg, probably a soft terrain type tire will cure the front end problems.  There is one huge 180 full-sand berm where I ride and with the milllvile front It is a blast to wail into the berm way to fast, just cram the bike into the berm and explode out with a huge roost of sand. Everyone looks!  I couldn't do that same corner with the other fronts I tried although I am sure "some" soft terrain fronts would be similar. I had such huge handling improvement with the millvilles on my KX500. I can't wait to wrench them onto my 450. Cam.

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