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  • What tyre for… Desert.
  • one_happy_hippy
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    Might have seen the thread over there -> regarding my desert experiences.

    Getting the Nomad built and though i’d see what you lot thought was the best desert tyre…

    I have ‘graded’ vehicle tracks out here and the track conditions vary between:

    Hard pack sand
    Loose sand
    Very Loose boggy sand
    Gravel
    Loose gravel
    Loose gravel over laterite
    Laterite (rough ferruginous rock).

    So what tyre for the desert…

    udder
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    The highest volume tyre that you can fit in your frame – and run them at low pressures.

    The larger contact area of the tyre will give you more chance of sitting on top of the sand rather than sinking into it.

    Don’t expect to have much fun, though. Desert riding is power sappingly slow boring. If you want to have fun in desert terrain, buy an MX bike. I live in a desert of the middle eastern variety. I tried everything to get some fun out of the sand on a push bike – I now ride a KTM 450 sxf on it…

    sobriety
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    O_H_H, you still in OZ? Looking at moving out to Perth for work at the moment and canvassing opinions/trying to work out what a decent wage is, since it’s so expensive (was there working for a couple of weeks recently, but loved the lifestyle and like the company I was working with so looking at making it permanent).

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    qwerty
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    You need full fat with extra cream Shirley.

    one_happy_hippy
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    Yeah still in oz, spend as little time in Perth as possible – find it frighteningly boring and expensive, I’m mostly a dh’er and the good DH is 2 hours south. Found it more difficult to make friends than I expected – partially as I’m never there fore more than a few weeks.

    With rent as it is in perth with one bed apartment min. $350 / week and a decent sized house min. 500 unless you want to be in the far reaches of perth you need to be looking at 2.5k month for rent and bills I guess. Food and consumables maybe another $1000 depending on how extravegant you want to live – alcohol even from a bottle shop will be a big expense. As are cars. Way way more expensive than the uk.

    Depends what industry you are in – the mining sector has pushed costs up a lot however the average hasn’t followed. Average for perth is 78k iirc and 120k for mining industry.

    Payscale will give you some idea . If I was living in Perth full time I would want to be on less than maybe 80-100k Pa.

    Not looking to have fun as such – just need to work on fitness – I live out here most of the time so im not coming out specifically to ride and a MX isn’t an option.

    sobriety
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    Cheers mate, I’ve been asked to price myself up by the company I was with. I got the impression that partying was pretty frightening wrt costs,so I’ll pobably be shooting for 150 – 180k all in, fortuanley I’m in Oil and gas with a unique yet useful skill set.

    The run/ride/surf/row/sail lifestyle and the fact that even when the weather was rubbish it was infinetley better than the UK appealed to me. We’ll see.

    Teetosugars
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    You need one of these beauties…

    one_happy_hippy
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    Yeah if you are specialised within oil / gas with experience then 150-200 is probably do-able.

    Im in gold exploration – I started with zero experience (though 6 years related) on 80k last august and was on 125k within 2 months. I now run the project on the ground out here.

    There is the weather – but perth can be rubbish weather wise too. I think If I got settled, met people and rode more it would be ok. Im content with working 9-10months over here and being in the uk for 2 month / travelling for the other at the moment.

    Have seen fat tyre bikes – but to be honest I dont think its that that sandy, I think a decent volume trail tyre (non mud) with some air out would probably do.

    sobriety
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    Cool, if I do end up out there and you’re still about we’ll have to meet up for a stw oz chapter ride, loads of the people I met out there were cyclists/mountainbikers, even got taken for a tour of freemo/cottesloe on bikes by a rather lovely dutch girl…

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