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RTV - I'm rubbish but are my tyres not helping

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jjsaul:
i had colway mt's on my rangie and hated them...no lateral grip....got rid of them and replaced with bfg's (albeit a bit bigger)...they feel a lot grippier.

my favourite MT's are the machos i had on my other rangie.

MattMatt:
i[m going to stick with the Colways for now as they are so new - I'm just changing the gearbox to an LT77 this week so time and money is in short supply

Thanks for all your comments.

Disco-Ron:
Isn't the minimum tyre pressure 22psi ... according to the LARC rules anyway.... nothing taller than 33 inches either!!! also, be careful with wheel offset..... that is unless class 10 is unlimited or something.... i know enough of the rules, but not all of em clearly....

anaxemurderer:
RTV's seem to have progessed quite rapidly (in my experience). A few years ago everyone seemed to be running colway mt's, sats or possibly diamond backs or grizzlies. Now simex-alikes are the norm, and lots of people seem to have cages!

When i 3 years ago i was using trac-edge, had very little grip and did very badly, i still had fun but it didn't do much for my confidence. I not really into trialing anymore (too much standing around and 'rules') but now i'm running maxi 3ds, which have loads of grip (i think there better than simex types, anaconda's or grizzlies). I don't drive them really hard but them levels of grip give me much more confidence and control. I can drive hills in 1st tickover that others need 2nd and a run up because of the tyres, its less damaging easier to control (and it makes me look good!)

Anyhow my view is depending on your experience get something better but stick out the colways as long as possible (then get something really knarly!).

Nick

crazymac:
IMHO very aggressive tyres like the simex etc can get you into as much trouble as they get you out of!

Various members of our club used to use them and were breaking things on the drier trials like quarries etc. change back to more convertional muds and no more diffs breaking!

I run a series 3 diesel in standard class with the mud terrain tyres the marines use (can't remember what they're called) I beat all the rangerovers and 90s to the class win last year :D

now that I have some experience I'm building a 90V8 with a 2 inch lift that will run in class 4 (we have 5 classes) this will run on half worn greenway machos aired down to 15psi and we'll see how that goes!

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