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I got told ages ago, that the best thing to do in mud is usually to ride in the lowest part of the trail / rut.
I attempted to ignore this good advice on Sunday morning, trying to ride a less slippery looking but higher line round the side of a big muddy dip, and have a cut and a bruise on my elbow from the ensuing sideways slide into the dip. Next time I shall experiment with doing the right thing and see if that hurts less.
Joe
At Clobber
Same here with the Bedfordshire clay. I found mud tyres like Trailraker and MudX too slow and very hard work in the clay. But tyres like that Jimmy with shallower and wider spaced knobs work well
I have also found the much 'dised' Speed King pretty usefull in the gloop.
oldgit,
My friend seems to have success with Conti Explorers but they clog with me but I'm a bit heavier.
Firemud Pro in 1.8 are the best at staying clog free and gripping the mud for me but are fairly draggy everywhere else.
Thanks for the advice on the Jimmy's I will consider a set next! What size do you use?
Faster = Bouncing over stuff
Slower = Stopping dead and hurting yourself!
It really works
I'm having another go on my Pana Cinders, 2.25f / 2.1r, running at 30psi. Anything dodgy and I'll assume that it's my technique and will seek to improve this.
I must go on a MTB skills course one day. 😳
Every bad crash I have had has been going dead slow, well, except the ones that haven't!
I tend to run one of three tyres:
Round the woods in proper winter gloop/mud it's 2.0" Mud X's @ 35psi
Anything rocky out come the High Rollers in F-2.35"/R-2.1" @ 32psi
Rest of the time Ignitors in either 2.1" or 2.35" eXCeption Series.