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Maxxis Flyweight 2.1, Kevlar

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  1. Maxxis Flyweight 2.1 Kevlar. Anyone has had any experience with these tires.
    Sounds pretty nice,
    but how do they perform in the mud? Are they better than your regular
    Hutchinsons?

  2. William van der Kraan said:

    Maxxis Flyweight 2.1 Kevlar. Anyone has had any experience with these tires.
    Sounds pretty nice,
    but how do they perform in the mud? Are they better than your regular
    Hutchinsons?

    The last time I checked, muddy trails were not to be ridden because it
    damages them.

    JD

  3. "William van der Kraan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Maxxis Flyweight 2.1 Kevlar. Anyone has had any experience with these


    tires.

    Quoted message said:

    Sounds pretty nice,
    but how do they perform in the mud? Are they better than your regular
    Hutchinsons?

    My regular Hutchinsons? Who are you talking to? I've never smoked a
    Hutchinson in my life.

    Greg

  4. G.T. said:

    "William van der Kraan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Maxxis Flyweight 2.1 Kevlar. Anyone has had any experience with these


    tires.

    Quoted message said:

    Sounds pretty nice,
    but how do they perform in the mud? Are they better than your regular
    Hutchinsons?

    My regular Hutchinsons? Who are you talking to? I've never smoked a
    Hutchinson in my life.

    Greg

    Yeah, but I bet you had some Shermans in the early 80's.

    JD on the way

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    William van der Kraan said:

    Maxxis Flyweight 2.1 Kevlar. Anyone has had any experience with these
    tires.
    Sounds pretty nice,
    but how do they perform in the mud? Are they better than your regular
    Hutchinsons?

    The last time I checked, muddy trails were not to be ridden because it
    damages them.

    JD

    Kudos to you

  6. Mud damages them? I though they used kevlar in bullet proof vests!

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    G.T. said:

    "William van der Kraan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Maxxis Flyweight 2.1 Kevlar. Anyone has had any experience with these


    tires.

    Quoted message said:

    Sounds pretty nice,
    but how do they perform in the mud? Are they better than your regular
    Hutchinsons?

    My regular Hutchinsons? Who are you talking to? I've never smoked a
    Hutchinson in my life.

    Greg

    Yeah, but I bet you had some Shermans in the early 80's.

    JD on the way

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    Mud damages them? I though they used kevlar in bullet proof vests!

    The trails buddy, the trails...

  8. pmsl.

    J

  9. all the Maxxis I've tried were real fast in the ware
    department.

  10. Never ridden them, but looking at the tread pattern I wouldn't use the
    real muddy conditions, maybe in firm to sticky conditions. The small
    tread should clear mud pretty quickly.

    Last time I rode around Houffalize there was alot of mud, but also a
    lot of slick rocks and I found a good mud tyre pretty scary on the rock
    sections so I ended up with a soft compound mud tyre like a Continental
    Slash 2.3.

    Take easy.

    Marz

  11. Never ridden them, but looking at the tread pattern I wouldn't use them
    in real muddy conditions, maybe in firm to sticky conditions. The small
    tread should clear mud pretty quickly, but provide very little grip in
    sloppy conditions.

    Last time I rode around Houffalize there was alot of mud, but also a
    lot of slick rocks and I found a good mud tyre pretty scary on the rock
    sections so I ended up with a soft compound mud tyre like a Continental
    Slash 2.3.

    Take easy.

    Marz

  12. Quoted message said:

    all the Maxxis I've tried were real fast in the ware
    department.

    They do seem to wear quickly, as Angry Man went through them really
    quickly when he was running them.

    JD

  13. Well, maybe once. In college. But I didn't inhale...

    "G.T." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    My regular Hutchinsons? Who are you talking to? I've never smoked a
    Hutchinson in my life.

  14. "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    all the Maxxis I've tried were real fast in the ware
    department.

    They do seem to wear quickly, as Angry Man went through them really
    quickly when he was running them.

    The 26" (Zennith?) slicks seem to hold up well. They're also very *good in
    mud.

    Shaun aRe - *(For rather bizarre 'fun' values of 'good'😉...

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