I’m just recounting my objective experience – I ended up sliding down a trail ass over tit in slightly slippery but generally benign conditions, on a trail where normally the grip is very good, and the sole variable that day was the tyres.
Where this thread is going is, I’m posting a review of these tyres, others are qualifying my review with their own experiences, and the end-product is more information for consumers to base their buying decisions on, which is good all round, with a little bit of personal abuse of my riding style/knowledge thrown in, albeit good natured I’m sure, and I’ll still be seeing you at the finish line!
Humble Panaracers perform tolerably in all conditions (albeit not “well” in any of them), I do alright on them anyway – even in slippy clay. In contrast, you can totally rip on High Rollers in the dry but they’re useless (dangerous?) when it’s wet.
The trail was near the old Widowmaker, and it was claggy on Saturday. Reckon it could have been the result of some kind of digging or something (like near the pond by the car park) rather than rain but the result was the same.