Trials Tires - Comparison
IRC
Model: 4.00-18 Trial Winner Tube Type, $104.95IRC has the distinction of being very middle-of-the-road in every aspect. It gave decent traction everyplace, with no real standout points. It isn't noticeably wallowy or flexy, and at the same time, the tire is far from stiff feeling. It gets great marks for durability and, if anything, suffers a little in aggressive riding, where it doesn't bite as well right off the bat. That did allow it to earn high marks in sand, where it was constantly rated high. It has a good balance between being bump-compliant and not too soft. One of the strange things is that the IRC "heats up" on longer road stints; you can feel the tire become increasingly wobbly in turns. And it was the only one that chucked knobs off the carcass during extended high-speed running, but this was when riding 70-plus mph across a 10-mile-long dry lake bed. The IRC was stiff to mount but still installed easily because the rubber on the bead isn't so sticky. It, too, cannot be ridden flat. View Related Article
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