Favorite rear tire?

On Apr 5, 4:54 pm, â–€Slack wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:33:50 -0700, G.T. wrote:
Scott Gordo wrote:
On Apr 4, 8:57 pm, â–€Slack wrote:
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:16:53 -0700, Scott Gordo
wrote:

On Apr 3, 10:08 pm, â–€Slack wrote:
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:17:06 -0700, Dean A. Stepper
wrote:
I'm looking to pick up a Nevegal for the front and maybe the small
block
for the rear. You are running the 1 ply ver., correct?
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Slack
Had been running the 2.5 Nevegal, 2.5 Blue Groove combo for a couple
of
years...hard to beat except for sidewall slashes.
Now on 2.3 small eight on the back. Every time I look at it I want
to
take
it off...the knobs are so wimpy. But it seems to work well. I also
took
the Blue Groove off the front and running a 2.55 Weirwolf LT. I am
switching back to the Nev/BG combo for this summers Mammoth Trips.
Although
I have been enjoying the lighter tires.
Dean
Cool, thanks for the info, Dean. I thinking there's no way that
small block is going to hold, but
apparently it a pretty good tire. I'm going miss running 2.5s, but
there' no way they'll fit on my little
Spinergy rims; I hope those things hold up... have a feeling I
should've held out for the Enduro versions,
but I wanted to keep it as light as possible for climbing gasp, did
I just write that
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Spinergy MTB wheels? Really? I didn't think that those had a very good
reputation. Maybe I just don't see many of them out here.
/s
You are correct and actually their reputation was horrendous,
especially in the CS
dept. But, IIRC, supposedly they have cleaned up their act in the
past couple years.
They've been pretty responsive and helpful so far; time will tell.

I was a intrigued with their PBO spokes and they use Enduro® brand
bearings
in their hubs, which is one good sign. I found a decent used pair in
"like new
cond" with a decent discount from retail, so I went for it. They are
machined and
anodized beautifully. It was one of those purchases where half your
brain is
telling you to do it, while the other half says, “dude - don't do it!�

They *do* roll real nice while in the bike stand
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Good luck, and let us know how they work out. I'd say it's pretty
likely that you're the only NG regular rolling them.

Senior Mountain Bike Bill does:

http://www.mountainbikebill.com/WebsitePartners.htm

Greg

Ah, super cool, if he's rocking them and they're holding up, I know
they're worthy.
Although, the pix are with the DH versions, which I know are good
performers; I just wasn't
100% on the XC version.... But I see he's been rolling those, too 8-)
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Yeah, he's been rolling the XC version longer than the heavies. The
level that dude is riding at nowdays is definitely "R&D Worthy".

JD

G.T. wrote:
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On Mar 29, 12:47 pm, "G.T." wrote:
wrote:
It's about time to replace an old rear tire, after plenty of miles of
faithful service. I figure I'll research & buy it over mud season,
snip

I'm tempted toward the Fire XC Pro as well, but I'm not sure how to
tell if it's Japanese, Tiawanese, OEM, original, etc. That's before
red & blue sidewalls come into play...


Do yourself a favor and skip them. Some people have luck with them but
myself along with many others have had most of the knobs tear off in a
single 2 hour ride when using them on the rear.


Really? I've been using them (tubeless) front and rear for a coupla
years now and never had that problem. I've always kinda liked 'em as
long as I stay off the tarmac - they definitely suck on tarmac.
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Westie