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Anyone tried both?
Which do you prefer and why?
Mud x
Trailraker too draggy on anything other than mud!
Have a trailraker on the back (1.9) and a 2.1 Mud X on the front.
PERFECT
From friends that have used both, they said that the Trailraker was ultimately slightly grippier in really thick mud, but that the Bonty Mud X's are just better everywhere else. They roll faster, are more predictable, and generally an easier tyre to get on with when you're not riding through thick mud. Though of course they're still pretty good in the mud too.
On their advice, I bought the Bontragers... And no regrets.
trailrakers- great in the glop but the high middle i found to be unstable on wet rocks and roots. switched to mud xs last year and much better all round tyre as mboy says.
Want to keep going in the worst conditions, laugh in the face of super slippy cambers, (find hard pack/tarmac scary) Trail rakers, - want go racing, want to keep then on when its mixed or getting dryer/cleaner, keep traction on hard pack Bontys
In the really sloppy shite of a wet Mid Winter, there is nothing better than Trailrakers, for everything else there's Bonty Mud X
I'm with dimmadan mud-x up front for grip & trailrakers at the back to dig and push you through. I tried mud-x on the back too, but found they struggled in deeper gloop.
Mud X's are fantastic. Seem to wear well too
I have Mud X's on my HT and to be honest they're fantastic tyres. Not just mud tyres but plenty good enough on woodland trails pretty much all year round unless they're proper dry & dusty
I only use the Trailraker 1.9 as a race tyre and Bonty 2.1 Mud x on the front.
The trailrakers a bit draggy for all round use imho
Mud x's easily. So much more than a mud tyre.
Another vote for the Mud X's. Had em on all year, great tyres
Just tried the Mud X for the first time today and found them superb in the mud but even better they where great on tarmac for rolling.
Did the Calderdale challenge today of which quite a lot was on tarmac and the Mud X made the riding a lot easier than I am used too.
Mud x are brilliant. Not absolutely as good as my previous faves the trailrakers in the worst mud but excellent in everything else. So much so that I no longer bother with changing to summer tyres for my local Bristol trails.
I'm toying with a change myself. I've got the trailrakers at the moment and whilst they are great in mud, around here when it's muddy it is also by definition rooty (when it drys up it seems to flatten and the roots disappear under the hardpack again) and that does not seem to be the trailraker high point.
I'm hoping the Mud x will be a good compromise, but like everything in life you can get used to what you have got and just get on with it. For me muddy conditions has meant sketchy conditions and I learned to ride accordingly.
Mud-X's for me to, Trailrakers are just too unpredictable for my liking. They're great if all you're riding through is gloopy mud but I need a tyre that's OK on rocks, roots and intermediate conditions to and the Mud-X is in a league of it's own for that.
clubber - MemberMud x are brilliant. Not absolutely as good as my previous faves the trailrakers in the worst mud but excellent in everything else. So much so that I no longer bother with changing to summer tyres for my local Bristol trails.
That's because its always muddy on the Bristol trails.
Another vote for Mud-X, had trailrakers on for all of two rides and sold them as they felt too draggy, switched to Mud-X with a stans kit and they stay on all year round, great tyres
That's because its always muddy on the Bristol trails.
Where have you been? we had two or three month long periods of dry weather this year where the trails actually dried out! I rode my bike with the Bontys on just because I was too lazy to change them and was really impressed - if they were a bit wider, I reckon I'd be happy to use them at trail centres and the like too.
tried them both, prefered the Maxxis Medusa over both of them
I shifted slightly prematurely to full winter tyres at the weekend. A supertacky swampthing on the front and a 60a highroller on the rear.
Possibly the draggiest tyre combination I've ever ridden, made more sensitive by running a singlspeed, AND it wasn't even that muddy.
Whats recokoned to be more draggy at the front, the swamp thing or the highroller?
Swampthing I'd imagine. Supertacky is 42A coupled with the knob spacing. The High Roller has a fairly prominient centre ridge that would make it roll easier.
however, that does put quite alot of rubber in contact with the ground. 😕