My perfect tire is..

[Xjedi23]

I ride an African Twin with Trailmax Missions. They are great on pavement and hard pack off. Looking for something that will do better in mud and sand but not loose two much on pavement. Noise and vibration are part of my concern with the tires I'm considering. Motoz GPS. Though about the Trailmax Raids but here they wear out quick.

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[Kbcave57]

I ride an African Twin with Trailmax Missions. They are great on pavement and hard pack off. Looking for something that will do better in mud and sand but not loose two much on pavement. Noise and vibration are part of my concern with the tires I'm considering. Motoz GPS. Though about the Trailmax Raids but here they wear out quick.

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I've been riding and racing off road for many years, after transitioning to adv bikes ive found to ride on the dirt and not lose the front end in less than ideal conditions it takes knobs, my bark busters will attest to that. Beware of rounded knobs designed to work well on the road. right now i find the best front tire for the riding i do is the mitas enduro. The rear is good also grips well but wears rather quickly. i'd rather wear out tires instead of going down, we all know how risky that is.

 

[ScottRNelson]

I've used at least eight different tires on the adventure bikes that I've owned and my absolute favorite is the Bridgestone AX41. It gets better traction on dirt roads than anything else that I've used and does well in deeper gravel. The only drawback is the noise they make around 40 mph, but I always wear good earplugs, so I absolutely don't care about that. Decent traction on the street and on the last set I got 8000+ miles on the front and 5500 miles on the rear. That rear was totally done at that point and not suitable for dirt, but my last ride on it was all pavement, so it still worked well for that.

 

[Idahokid]

TKC 80’s have served me well but not very good mileage. The front tire has been changed to a Dunlop trail max mission and the rear isn’t too far behind. I’m on forest and logging roads with a mud puddle once in a while so I won’t notice much except mileage.

 

[PerryRObray]

I've been using big block (in the direction of Shinko 705, Continental TKC70, ....) tread pattern tires since the 1970s.

I'm not a hard core moto crosser like some of you. I have ridden em very hard on clay roads, like flat tracker style. Furthermore, I've ridden em very hard on pavement, actually beating top tier (mid/late 70s) street bikes (I'm a legend in my own mind, hahahahahaha) on the twisties with much, much more power than my bike.

I put the widest tire that will fit in the rear wheel well without causing any issues. I believe this gives me great traction off pavement, considering how much traction they have on pavement.