First ride on the 2.8 Minion DHF / Rekon+ 2.8 combination yesterday and very impressed. I ran them at 15psi front, 17psi rear measured with an aged Topeak digital gauge. For the Peak in autumn I’d say they’re just about perfect. The DHF just gets on with things, plenty of grip on both rock and softer surfaces and the Rekon’s decently grippy and reasonably fast rolling with it.

At those pressures there was enough cushion and traction to clean the climb up the Rushup Edge trough despite DCC’s best efforts and they were reassuring across the muddy, ribboned bridleway along the top. Al good until the rocky downhill on the Hayfield side of Jacob’s when everything went into full-on jackhammer mode. Bear in mind this is on a hardtail with a 120mm fork.

Let some air out either end and got much more float without flatting, but also reached the delightful point of squidgy, waffly, wallowy roll out back. I suspect I’d have pinch flatted the rear eventually too. I’m going to stick Pro Core in the rear and see if that shifts the delicate balance of support, traction and vulnerability inot a better place.

But the DHF was brilliant.

And why (basically)?

No idea 🙂

Don’t know if I’m the only one to mention this ..as I’ve only just tapped into this thread ..
A lot of posters have mentioned the pressures they are running with their tubeless set up ..but as yet no one has brought their own weight into the equation ..which surely is relevant to how much psi you have in each tyre .
So why bother quoting ..?
Are you all the same weight?

There’s far more to tyre pressures than simply quoting rider weight against tyre pressure/Volume.
These riders who go around quoting low pressures like it’s something to brag about?. Now let’s be honest here. Do these riders ever even hit corners fast? No. Of course not. No one who’s happy using plus tyres ever does. All that grip plus tyre fans rave about is actually pointless as their big oversized super grippy low pressure tyres lack support in corners.

They work well on a lot of Peak trails where there aren’t any real corners, but there’s a load of rocky stuff. I’m not sure anyone’s ‘bragging’ about pressures, btw more that folk are trying to find a spot where there’s enough support to corner hard-ish / not wallow and enough cush to make it worth the extra weight and volume worthwhile.

I’m increasingly thinking it doesn’t exist – run enough pressure to keep the tyre stable and you might as well have normal tyres – but it’s interesting finding out. I have a couple of non-plus mountain bikes also.

I’m about 12-stone, I guess – I don’t weigh myself – plus riding pack. I probably should have mentioned that. Also pump gauges vary a lot in accuracy. My track pump reads higher than it ought to, for example.

Well, that makes two of us.

I think I’ll just get the cheaper ones then…

Someone asked earlier about the size of the 2.8 Maxxis tyres. The Rekon measures exactly 70mm across its widest point, The Minion DHF is 68mm, but only been on for a couple of days so may yet grow slightly. Both on Scraper 45mm rims.

In comparative terms, the Rekon seems to be bigger all round than an equivalent WTB Trailblazer or Ranger and a little smaller than the equivalent 2.8 Schwalbe. The Minion sits happily in a standard 650B X Fusion Sweep.

They seemed to cope okay with current Peak mud btw, but I also have a 2.5 WT DHF sat in the cellar along with a 2.4 Ardent that I can stick on if the float issue returns.

I didn’t weigh them before fitting – sorry – but claimed weight on the 2.8 DHF is around 1000g and on the Rekon+ around 800g. I think they’re slightly tougher than the Snakeskin Schwalbes, but not like a WTB Tough or a Double Down or similar.

Very grippy in medium stuff judging from my experience at the weekend, though I wouldn’t want to use them in full-on, Chiltern-style, gloopy clag, More drag yes, but if you stick the grippy tyre up front and run something faster rolling like the Rekon out back, they’re fine. No different from conventional tyre sizes ime in that you get more rolling resistance from the rear tyre, always. But the bigger contact patch seems to equate to more grip even with a less aggressive tread pattern.

Anyone seen the plus-sized Specialized tyres for sale anywhere?

I swapped back to my Minion DHF/DHR2 combo last weekend but after almost comical levels of zero grip at the QECP Day night Enduro (which was the muddiest I have ever ridden in to be fair) I’m wondering if a Magic Mary up front might be a better overall option? How are people finding these after a few months of use and abuse? Holding up OK?

The Minions are incredible in the dry and have taken plenty of abuse (lots of visible sidewall scratches and scrapes but no pinch flats or punctures despite a very hard and rocky week in the alps and several days in Scotland and at BPW), but they are looking pretty worn now (out back especially) and don’t really dig in when it’s gloopy.

Pretty sure no tyre would’ve found grip at the Day Night enduro. It was tough going