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.

 

[Jbowlby]

+1 on the Trailmax Mission, great tire. My front has about 12K miles on it. On a recent trip I had to replace the rear with a Motoz GPS. Also good tire but a little noisey.

 

[PerryRObray]

+1 on the Trailmax Mission, great tire. My front has about 12K miles on it. On a recent trip I had to replace the rear with a Motoz GPS. Also good tire but a little noisey.

"Motoz GPS. Also good tire but a little noisey."

Another so called "big block" tread pattern. This Motoz tractionator 150/70B-18 bias ply tire has a load weight rating of 739 pounds, 118 MPH rating and weighs 18.9 pounds.

Steel belted radial big block tread tires such as Continental TKC70 150/70R-17 (17.81 pounds), Shinko 705 150/70VR-18 (17 pounds) (load weight rating of 739 pounds) tire weigh less and have a higher MPH rating at 149. The Continental has a load weight rating of 716 pounds.

On rockymountainatvmc.com the Shinko 705 150/70VR-18 is $199.71, the Continental TKC70 150/70R-17 is $243.15, the Motoz Tractionator GPS 150/70B-18 is $264.99

Maybe the noise from the Motoz Tractionator GPS is from the 90 degree blocks off the center tread band.

I've put 7000 miles (Honda XR650L with a 100 liter trunk almost always) on the Shinko 705 150/70VR-18 steel belted radial in almost every situation short of hard core (high speed, jumps,.....) dirt riding, incredibly amazing tire. Probably going with a Continental TKC70 steel belted radial next on the rear to see how it wears.