![]() After this I began researching tire inserts and decided to order some Mynesweepers, which are a much cheaper alternative to Cush Core or any of the other competitors. Now I'm fully willing to admit that I may have had too little pressure in my tire (usually 24psi), may have picked a bad line, who knows, flats happen, plug it with bacon, move on. A tricky Dragon's Back rock garden filled with jagged rocks ready to gobble up some tire sealant. On the Dragon's Back ridge trail I hit the rock garden pictured below and promptly heard sealant spewing from my rear. While I love this middle of the road casing and fully intend to make it my full time rear tire, its not bullet proof. ![]() You're all wondering: "can I run this instead of a Double Down and still be fine" The answer is.maybe. Now for tonights main attraction, EXO+ casing. I prefer this level of control, even on regular in town trails, because it gives me the freedom (and the balls) to use only the rear brake on many intermediate descents. Whereas other less knobby tires will occasionally give you a little jolt of sliding (without you actually being in danger of crashing I might add), the DHR slides exactly when you tell it to, no more, no less. I experiment quite a bit with different front tires, yet I am dead set on the Minion DHR II as my rear. The bike instantly felt, more fun, quicker on downhills too, even gnarly ones. I decided to go a bit more "trail" friendly (no, don't call the Ripmo a trail bike, its raced in the EWS) by switching my setup to a 2.6 DHF EXO (no plus) in the front, and this 2.4 DHR II EXO+ in the posterior. No, thats no a jab at the Assegai, in fact, its my favorite front tire, but the DH casing on it just doesn't roll fast enough for anything other than balls out gnar at high speeds. Prior to switching to my current setup, I had been running a 2.3 Double Down Minon DHR II in the rear with a 2.5 Stiff-as-hell DH casing Assegai on the front. Now (or soon in some cases) you can get a Minion DHR II or DHF in 2.3, 2.4, or 2.6 in just about any casing you can imagine. I perked up especially high for this one because they added a lot of support for 29ers that previously wasn't there. Schwalbe) and it inflated okay.Last year, at Interbike, Maxxis announced a slew of new tire sizes and casings. No better or worse than other tyres I have used (eg. The tyre is set up on Giant XC-1 rim with Giant sealant, and it was a bit tight, but all Maxxis tyres seem the same in my experience. Have you run the tyre as tubeless? If so, how was tubeless installation? It’s slightly narrower than the 2.4 High Roller II I run on the rear. How is the sizing of the tyre – ie accurate, bit narrow, bit big etc? Ideally though, trail centres or summer use… Excellent. Okay, it’s no mud tyre, but it’s passable if you’re an occasional mud-plugger and don’t want to swap tyres all the time. Wet or dry hardpack, loose over hard, dry dusty – it seems to excel in all. What sort of conditions does this tyre work best in? Dry, mud, rock, loose, firm etcĪs said earlier, this tyre works well in most UK conditions. I’m running 28mm inner-width rims so not exactly wide, but the all round grip for a 2.4in tyre is fantastic. For hardpack, dry or wet (and my local trails are the infamous ‘Cannock Cobbles’, which when wet are slippier than a penguin coated in jelly) the grip is consistent, biting really well under braking and when leant over in hard cornering. ![]() However, I think I’ve stumbled on a new favourite! Front end traction is fantastic in most UK conditions, even passable in off-piste mud. TBH, my standard front tyre is the 3C Max Terra Minion DHF, but that was out of stock, so a DHR II was chanced.
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