Last winter I saw that Kate Leeming was planning on bicycling across Antarctica and her weapon of choice was the SnowShow 2XL PSC (Pure Silica Compound) tire with white treads. Although I had seen many people use the PSC tires on their fatbikes online there was something about having a white treaded tire that put…
I’ve been looking at aftermarket screw-in studs for fatbike and motocross tires for a while now since I love to ride all winter long and a lot of times the snow is just a mixture of ice and slush. The premier US seller of studs is a company called gripstuds who sell a variety of custom…
It’s been a while since I’ve done any tire reviews, but the last 3 weeks on a 4.8 folding bead 120 TPI Snowshoe XL studded tire impressed me enough to spend some time writing a review. I bought this tire last spring for $99 and it is available in a variety of places online as…
A year and a half ago I read this article on fat-bike.com about the up and coming Juggernaut Pro 4.0 tire which promised to revolutionize the fat bike tire market. The new Juggernaut Pro tires had a pretty deep tread pattern but at less than 800 grams, were much lighter than any Fat Bike tire…
Since 15 electric bikes for one person is just not enough, I bought just one more to add to my collection. The newest version of the Deadeye Monster single speed from Bikesdirect ships with fancy 80mm rims (instead of 50mm), 135mm front dropouts (instead of 100mm), 100mm bottom bracket (instead of 68mm) and Mission Command 4…
I haven’t really tested any road specific fatbike tires other than the Vee Rubber Vee 8, which is only a ‘road tire’ in that it’s pretty much useless for anything else. The Vee 8 competes with the Vee Rubber Mission 4 as my least favorite fat bike tire of all time. The Duro was shipped mounted…
When I first read about the Snow Shoe 2XL on fat-bike.com I fell in love. It made every other fat bike tire on the market look like they were anorexic. There was only one problem, most frames would not accommodate a tire that measured 5.05 inches on a 100mm rim. This tire is marketed as…
I’ve seen some pretty silly exaggerations on tire sizes, but none are quite as outrageous as the Vee Rubber Snow Shoe 4.5. I can say with some certainty that there is currently no rim manufactured in existence that are going to make these tires 4.5 inches wide no matter how much Viagra you feed it.…
I’ve been tired of Surly and Vee-Rubber tires which seem to make up about 90% of my rubber collection (not counting my Trojans but they are all past their expiration date) so I picked up a used Maxxis 120tpi Mammoth on ebay for $50 that had been “installed and ridden” only 3 times. Although the tread…
I’m not a big fan of Vee Rubber tires. The Mission 4 and Vee 8 tires are both at the bottom of my list for tires that I’d recommend to someone I didn’t hate. The Bulldozer 4.7 may make a VeeRubber believer out of me yet. I bought ($90 on ebay) and tested a 120tpi…
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