RoverOne
New Member
They certainly won't let you down when it counts, you pay for what you get, if you want quality pay a bit more, if you want crap and save a few bob, buy khumo's.
BTW Coopers are also good kit, in a big tyre shoot in Australia under Australian conditions Coopers ran a tight 2nd behind BFG muddies, khumo's 7th down the list.
Cheers
urbandekay
Active Member
Ryder yes, you could go and pay a lot for a set of GF tyres or you could try something cheaper. I'm running Bronco Gripedge (Trakdege copy) remoulds and have a separate set of wheels with road tyres on for summer use. I don't know how much your Shogun weighs but I think your tyres are too wide for mud. If you can get another set of rims use narrower and larger diameter tyres, when greenlaning.
A larger diameter helps you climb out of the rut easier and puts a longer contact area on the ground and a narrower tyre will possibly help you maintain a more accurate course, thinks I. This is part (And just part) of the reason why my Defender did so well on those lanes, my tyres, were larger diameter than Spyderman's or Clives, even though Clive's were more aggressive tread pattern than mine.
The disadvantage of larger tyres is that the steering will be a tad heavier and you may get mud blocking up your wheel arches, as happened with the Doka, you would of course need to check you can run a larger diameter tyre.
all the best urban dekay
A larger diameter helps you climb out of the rut easier and puts a longer contact area on the ground and a narrower tyre will possibly help you maintain a more accurate course, thinks I. This is part (And just part) of the reason why my Defender did so well on those lanes, my tyres, were larger diameter than Spyderman's or Clives, even though Clive's were more aggressive tread pattern than mine.
The disadvantage of larger tyres is that the steering will be a tad heavier and you may get mud blocking up your wheel arches, as happened with the Doka, you would of course need to check you can run a larger diameter tyre.
all the best urban dekay
Ryder
Having a senior moment
Thanks urban, I'll do some research and see what size rims I can actually fit. For some reason my logic went the other way. I assumed that because I had more surface area in contact with the ground, my weight would be distributed further (being the fat bastid that I am!), thus reducing the probability of sinking further. That's obviously a misnomer.
Oh... If I haven't called you yet... would you contact clive and ask whether he would like to join us this weekend, please. For some reason I didn't get his phone number.
Cheers
Ryder
Oh... If I haven't called you yet... would you contact clive and ask whether he would like to join us this weekend, please. For some reason I didn't get his phone number.
Cheers
Ryder
ratty
I'm not special I'm limited edition
I bought a set of bfg ats for my 110. Had terrible wheel wobble at around 55-60mph. Had em ballanced up twice but still no difference. I now run mt khumos on my front axle and bfg ats on the rear (just to use the pieces of **** up). I will never buy bfg's again. Every puncture I have had has been on the bfg's. I have had no trouble at all with the khumos.
Moral of the story
pay less and you won't be dissapointed. Pay more and you'll wish you'd paid less
robint
Well-Known Member
mornuing ratty !!!!!!!!!
im looking into renewing all 4 of my tyres im very impressed with the kumho kl 71 unfortuntly no body round here deals with them bloody typical !! i have a good price for them off a place in north london also been in contact with yella good price off him to !!!i think i will go this way too !!!!!!!!!
im looking into renewing all 4 of my tyres im very impressed with the kumho kl 71 unfortuntly no body round here deals with them bloody typical !! i have a good price for them off a place in north london also been in contact with yella good price off him to !!!i think i will go this way too !!!!!!!!!
urbandekay
Active Member
Ryder, yes you do want to put more tyre in contact with the ground but a wide tyre pushes more mud in front of it, a bigger diameter tyre also puts more tyre in contact with the ground, lengthways and needs less force to get it over obsticles.
all the best urban dekay
all the best urban dekay
