Penultimate test in this series. Very surprising difference between the High Roller 3 and the Assegai even when run with the same MaxxGrip compound and similar DD casing!
I think this is a classic case of horses for courses... that track does not look very loose, which is where the HR3 shines. I'm fairly certain that they deliberately made the casing 2.4 rather than 2.5 so that it could penetrate loose sands and gravels better. Assegai tends to float and wash out in those conditions.
Yeah, would be good to test somewhere muddy... I was staggered by the difference though.
Loose over hard, not muddy. The trail you are testing on is very basic with no real complicated grip conditions. It's a trail that is going to benefit a tire like the assegai. Once you get into loose over hard (or muddy) an intermediate or a tire with knobs that can punch through the loose stuff becomes the answer. There isn't much staggering about the result... to be honest, the result seems to be within what I would consider standard deviation for anyone but UCI DH level riders.
I hear you on rider variance. For context, I’ve probably done around 200 laps of this trail, so my spread on it is usually pretty tight. That’s why the difference stood out to me more than expected.
I think this is a classic case of horses for courses... that track does not look very loose, which is where the HR3 shines. I'm fairly certain that they deliberately made the casing 2.4 rather than 2.5 so that it could penetrate loose sands and gravels better. Assegai tends to float and wash out in those conditions.
Yeah, would be good to test somewhere muddy...
I was staggered by the difference though.
Loose over hard, not muddy. The trail you are testing on is very basic with no real complicated grip conditions. It's a trail that is going to benefit a tire like the assegai. Once you get into loose over hard (or muddy) an intermediate or a tire with knobs that can punch through the loose stuff becomes the answer. There isn't much staggering about the result... to be honest, the result seems to be within what I would consider standard deviation for anyone but UCI DH level riders.
I hear you on rider variance. For context, I’ve probably done around 200 laps of this trail, so my spread on it is usually pretty tight. That’s why the difference stood out to me more than expected.
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