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Bruh, we got soooo much new stuff coming this year, y'all better hold onto yer butts! Not sure why @RiderMikeCheck1 keeps calling one of the new-news the DHF2, though. That ain't it and it's a substantially different tire than the HR. However, he is right that a lot of people are gonna like it!
Stoked to see more folks trying out the HR in some varying conditions. I think your point about wanting help from your tires when things aren't ideal is so spot on. Personally, I rode our more open treads like the DHF/DHR than the Assegai prior to the HR coming out. I like the locked in, on/off feel for my riding.
Like many of you, I rediscovered the joys of riding a shorter travel/lighter bike for most of my day-to-day riding. The majority of my time over the last two years have been on our faster options like the Forekaster and more recently, the new Dissector. Still running bigger meats on the 160/170 bike, but I ride that maybe 20% of the time.
I'm only calling it DHF2 since some industry elites were calling it this year in Whistler. That said, with its braking chops, it could be the new DHR3. It's a substantially different tire, warranting a new name, but I know you said Maxxis prefers to reuse names to avoid having to trademark new ones, etc. Little doubt that it will be the main Maxxis tire for World Cup racing going forward, though.
All good, a lil friendly ribbing! And that may or may not have been the initial idea behind the project... but it went in a slightly different direction.
Stoked you're stoked!
Pinkbike got an article about new Michelin Wild Enduro performance but either Michelin didn't provide much info or Pinkbike didn't ask for more info and the canadian website for michelin has no useful information like weight, actual compounds used so I checked the canadian distributor (HLC) for michelin and they already have them listed with most info. I am assuming those will replace the old Wild Enduro front and rear competition tires that had 60tpi casing and either Gum-X (medium) or Magi-X (soft) compound.
Wild Enduro MS perf
Available in 27.5x2.4 at 1165g or 29x2.4 at 1215g
Wild Enduro MH perf
Available in 27.5 x2.5 at 1220g or 29x2.5 at 1260g
Wild Enduro Rear perf
Only in 29x2.4 at 1165g
Size available are a copy of what is currently available in the racing version.
Canadian MSRP is 123.99$ for all models, old Wild Enduro competition MSRP was 120$ and Wild Enduro Racing line MSRP are 143.99$
HLC is also the US distributor for michelin so USD MSRP for the new Wild Enduro performance are 85.99$ versus 99.99$ for the racing version.
Old Wild Enduro competition were around 1000g, current Wild Enduro racing are around 1250-1350g range.
Pinkbike article mentioned the new performance tires are dual compound so I am assuming center knob are Gum-X and side knobs would be Magi-X.
Yeah, the press release Michelin sent out didn't contain any of that info, thanks for looking that up!
The casing for the Wild Enduro seems to be dual 33 PTI plies, and they do indeed mention GumX for the center knobs and MagicX for the side knobs. They also feature bead-to-bead casing shields for puncture protection. The MS tires are available in 29 or 27.5, 2.40 in both cases, while the MH tires grow to 2.50. The rear is available only as a 29/2.40 for now. Checking the specs for the e-MTB versions, they don't seem all that different to the enduro versions, they mention the same compound mixes and casings, weights are similar too. They exist in bigger sizes though, 2.40 or 2.60 for the front, and 2.60 or 2.80 for the rear version.
https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/michelin-launches-two-new-ranges-mountain-bike-tires-enduro-and-e-mountain-bikes.
Anyone heard more news about Tacky Chan Radial lately? Excited to keep running MM radial up front, but would love something faster and more precise than Albert for the rear. I may stash that tire and go to the old stock Trail Boss/Vigi I have for a while until the TC comes out.
Us radial converts waiting for the Tacky Chan Radial to release.
Tacky chan soft and super soft, trail and gravity casing lets go!
That skeleton is funny. I can relate.
How bout something like a Forecaster too for the light trail bike? Huge opportunity here for sales...
Is Schwalbe planning on releasing true, highvolume 2.4 XC mtb tires any time soon does anyone know?
Ya does anyone have any inside baseball on Schwalbe releasing radial XC tires? They exist since they were spotted at world cups this year.
We should try to guess what the new Maxxis "not a Minion DHF2" tire name will be, since they deny that's what it'll be called.
My guess is it will be a Jackson signature tire (like Assegai was Greg's and Dissector Troy's), but he'll name it Chainsaw.
Maxxis Digestor
Maxxis Denominator
Maxxis Minotaur
Maxxis Mennonite
Maxxis Legal Retainer
Maxxis Domesticator
And my personal vote: the Maxxis HRDHRMX3 Classic
I also hope the sidewall tech on the new batch of Maxxis tires in 2026 brings with them an exciting new three letter acronym too, like SDC (Super Defense Casing), so I can run the Maxxis HRDHRMX3 Classic SDC 29x2.5 3C MaxxGrip as a front tire and save the Maxxis DHR2 DH 29x2.4 3C MaxxTerra as a rear tire. But that's just me.
Don’t forget the critically important and informative TR for “tubeless ready”. To very helpfully differentiate it from all the non-tubeless ready mountain bike tires that currently are flooding the market
I mentioned this in the pb article too, but would be sick to see the swampthing return! From what i've seen, this new (not) DHF2 could be a contender for this??
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Tire shopping right now. As of now I am committing more to the Tacky Chans rather than radial patterns...
But I'm stuck on gravity vs DH and soft vs ultra soft (notably in that DH only comes in ultra soft).
So I am weighing DH ultra soft vs gravity soft for the rear... And just DH vs gravity for the front. Dunno how to play it out.
Ride in SoCal, nothing too serious, but I'm 200lbs and a former BMXer so my line choice is shit. Should I just stick with super gravitys or try DH and likely end up with more wear (but better grip)?
Not sure if it's the casing or the volume, but I could never run enough pressure in TC's to keep the rims off rocks while still maintaining a good feel on the ground. Having spent years running DH casing Conti's, Spec's, and Maxxis, I wanted to like the Tacky Chans but they were not for me, as a 200lb hard rider. I went as high as 32r 26f and would still hear rim pings on every rock garden. FWIW I could run 28r 23f with any of the aforementioned dh casings on the same trails and would not run into issues yet have more grip and less bounce.
I started with SG's and then bought another pair of US DH casing Tacky Chans with the same disappointing result. I really don't get how guys run these at WC speeds, but I know how they work/don't for me at my non-WC cat2 pace. YMMV.
I was riding with the office mates the other day,and they were all on fatbikes and I was just getting stuck and slip sliding in the snow. It got me thinking, would radials help with fatbikes?![]()
Well they don’t weigh 200lbs for one
but also I wonder how many TC riders at the WC level are also using inserts?
I’m 200lb as well and I have had a lot of luck with speci gravity casing at 27 as well.
Michelin Dh16's might be worth a try. Big fan of the enduro ms/dh22 coming from magic marys.
Undoubtedly they would. Unfortunately it’s just not a big enough sector of the market to ever happen.
lol yeah, most aren't 6'3" either. I think Minnaar is closest to my size of the WC guys that I have met/seen. That does bring up a good point, I have never run inserts, but I also haven't needed too with my typical Assegai/DHR2 setup. Honestly after spending $450 on TC's in less than a month the thought of spending any more on inserts seems pretty lame.
holy shit that’s a lot of spend. You are very committed to the Chans lol
The wear is significant already with the soft compound. Wonderful tire in the back though.
I have a fantasy of Schwalbe releasing Shredda radials in 3.0 width and their special cold weather compound the WC racers were running in Poland. Put them on my ebike, with soft coil suspension and full 27.5 for the ultimate snow bike.
You are already using so low pressures with fat tires and have a big contact patch, don't really see what radial would change for the better
Same contact patch at slightly higher pressures?
But why? Why would you need higher pressure in snow, fat tires do their job well already, that of being suspension and actually be able to stay on top of snow. Maybe in the 3" category, but that's just a stupid tire size anyway, not good enough for stay on top and wide enough not to carve through.
Most fat biking is in low tide snow, so you still get rocks and roots that sometimes poke out.
Also fat tires are undamped suspension, and they bob quite a bit on hard pack. Annoyingly so. Plus there is tire squirm, rim bottom out on hard compressions, etc. Really, not that different from normal sized tires.
Does anyone know what the Conti sidewall logos mean?
I think I remember this being a Super Soft rear tire, but I can't tell heads or tails from the sidewall:
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