Being indecisive here, so help me out...
Currently got a Spesh Slaughter grid semislick on the back. Alternative is a Highroller II Exo
The Slaughter will be fine on rocky stuff, I reckon it's a tougher casing, and will be easier on the long road sections (of which there seem to be a few). But it'll be bloody awful on any boggy peaty moorland trails. I think it's been dry in the lakes for the last week or so, but not that dry for that long that it'll all be beautifully dusty...
Thoughts? Flip a coin...?
Thanks!
Not many boggy, peaty trails on the route. I can think of only two sections that aren't hardpack/rocky. Would be an easy choice for me.
I'm rolling with Bonty XR3 front, XR2 rear. Don't know how the XR2 compares to the Slaughter.
As Martin says there's not much boggy stuff on the route: the first bit of the BW from Stephenson Ground over to the Newfield is probably the longest. If you are doing the 100 then I don't know what the BW between Eskdale and Wasdale is like but I'm told the climb will be a push anyway. There's a bit on the return from Eskdale that could be boggy but in the Dunnerdale direction it will mostly be downhill.
OK, that seems reasonably conclusive. I've done most of the 70 miler give/take, its the bit from Seathwaite to Wasdale and back that is unknown. I did Wasdale to Eskdale 20 odd years ago and remember planting the front wheel of my Orange C16 in a bog well above the hub, so was expecting that to be sloppy.
See you tonight!
The Slaughter will be perfect, I've been riding one for about 6 months. Tough as old boots, but fast. I'm just gutted to have finally found a cut that I don't fancy risking a 100 mile Lakeland route with. So I've just swapped to an XR2!!