UCI World Championships Mont Saint Anne - What they are running - Part 2

 sheeeez, old speccys are mint

 I'm impressed the Highroller still rates so high in tire selection considering how "old" it is. So versatile. Does anyone know how long that tread has been on the scene? That's one well engineered tire for it to have not become obsolete like so many others out there.

 highrollers are just the faster rolling tire

 the high roller was pretty much identical copy of one of the old Michelin tyres, comp dh16 (i think)

maxxis just placed them selves perfectly in the market to take what Michelin had managed and sell more.

 haha, love how the Chris King headsets from those bikes are probably still mint!

 PALMER is the Shit

 I used to ride a high roller on the back Minion on the front.....now both minions, I was pretty sure they weren't producing the high rollers anymore? or am I wrong?

 I just wish Maxxis would make a tyre that's half way between the Minion DHF and a Wet scream then I could leave it on all year round riding in the UK

 bigburd its called a swamp thing (or similar, like my favourite rainking)

 nah mate swamp things I find to be barely better then DHF minions in the wet stuff I ride in , half way between a swamp thing and a wetscream would be perfection to me.
some thing like the rainking you mentioned is what i'm on about , mean looking tyre .

 well i said swamp thing because its a well known tyre, but a rainking is better imo. better longer lasting compound, but still softer, and faster rolling.

 I wonder if all of the tubeless are UST or if there are any stans/ghetto out there...UST is pretty easy to change, and I bet you are right about burping, those guys rip.

 I believe the TUbeless set ups were all on Deemax wheels with Maxxis and Schwalbe tires.

 just look at what frame they're using and check the frame's pivot
I'll start, Commencal is a single pivot, Trek is a floating pivot,I think it's called ABP, Evil is the Delta link, the V10 is VPP, Giant has the Maestro Suspension I believe, Specialized is the FSR suspension ,right? Lapierre is the Pendbox system

 And how many of those are actually single pivot and which have virtual pivot points?
Horst should be counted as?

 pretty sure none of those are singlepivot (except commencal ^^)

 The butcher is basically a minion rip-off....

 And chunder is a bad copy of the high roller.

 Thong would obviously keep the weight down... But briefs would probably be more practical (less chafing!) and offer significantly more protection in the event of a crash*

*Or the event that Cedric Gracia mistakes you for one of the members of the Swedish Bikini Team.

 This is world champs and you can read into it how you want. Riders are here to do a one day race, winner takes all.

 Sharpied Maxxis...

 :O lies




http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/3542318/

 lol, ive never seen the athertons actually racing with their continental tyres their always riding high rollers.

 Good point about the Conti's.... I saw the Athertons and even Schleymeister as being sponsored by them. For ne, I never could get more than a months life from them, and not full confidence. maybe this black chili and some new treads are better?

but I gotta say, the last few weeks I did my own experiment. Home trail, about 2000ft downhill, no one catches me, mainly been wet this year (rain rain and more rain).... Had Schwalbes f/b all year. skittish on the back, and terrible in the wet. Buddy told me to run Minion F f/b. Put those on and talk about turning it up to 11. then last week I put on my old kenda's from last year, for a weeks worth.... better than the shwalbes... put on the schwalbes. One run, the Minions are back on. Back to 11. Its gonna be hard to build a better tire than that. Wet or dry... except the big mud.

thats just me geeking out... but sharing it.

ride on.

 I could be wrong, but Gee never won Fort Bill on Maxxis in 2009, but was riding them in 2010 to the win.

 The drawback outweight the positives when it comes to racing. The DHR is a great tire, but for racing, it is a little wider in profile to its front counterpart, and is slower rolling with its bigger knobs. Great for FR, not so great for DH race.

 ok, cause ive been noticing for the last couple years alote of racers using that setup..locals and WC's..i had been using the DHF and DHR for a couple years now and this morn placed a new order for tires 2 DHF's..im somewhat new too racing so looking fwrd to see how it feels next race.

 Twice as fast and twice as smooth as me. If I hit the chunder that they go through as fast as them I'd double pinch so fast that the tube in my Camelbac would also get punctured!

 aren't the GT Fury's running Vivids?

 i might be wrong..

 i heard that santa cruz syndicate wanted to race air shocks this season, but the riders hated it so went back to coil haha

 really?

 So true!

And look at thie first pic, look at the size of the chainring!! :O

 I know!! Looks like it belongs on a road bike

 and the athertons are sponsered by them and are included in the poll!

 It is listed beside the tire type.

 Now I feel like an idiot

 no problem jim... we are all friends here.... how many times a week are you drinking, jim? 6, 7? haha. just kidding.

 Cut down usually refers to a tire that has been modified to roll faster by removing some it's center knobs. Most of the true mud tires are very aggressive in this regard and by trimming the center section you can improve rolling speed. It could also refer to modifying a tire with more sipes (sp?) or trimming the transition knobs so it handles differently or clears mud better.

 Thank you, it was really helpful!

 too bad for sure. I've had some beautys in my time, trouble is they have to make way for a new headturner. Wish I could keep a stable.