Continental Race King for dirt jumping?

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Continental Race King for dirt jumping?
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flag Ziggypop14
Posted: Sep 4, 2016 at 14:09 Quote
is the continental race king 2.2 a suitable tire for dirt jump bikes?
flag Metro-Gnome
Posted: Sep 4, 2016 at 16:36 Quote
Totally, yes. I had 2 on my Majesty and it's a pretty good tire at high pressure. Most tires with low profile knobs do well on dusty, dry dirtjump lines.

I greatly prefer KHE Mac2 Dirt tires for dirt, but Continental RKs make a good front paired with something slightly slicker in the rear. Best combos for tires are

Booze light f and r
KHE mac2 dirt front, Maxxis DTH rear
Spesh Rythym lite front, KHE mac2 or compound control rear

There are literally over a hundred tires that would work well on dirt, these are some of my favorite combos.

I would never run Racekings for street, btw. I have experience with these tires and they're not great for street park. Not horrible either but almost all of the aforementined tires are better even I you only ride street/park like 10% of the time.
flag bikebike69
Posted: Sep 4, 2016 at 18:41 Quote
While suitable,yes. It may or may not be appropriate for certain trails.
Rough,sandy or gravelly dirt would be fine for it. But I wouldn't show up at well packed smooth trails
with knobbies to tear up the dirt.
Every trail set is different,just sayin.
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