Originally Posted by
LeeG
I've got the solution for deciding between tires with overlapping characteristics, put the comfy tire on the front and the tough tire on the rear. Lowering pressure on the XR would probably take care of differences in grip for the XR on dirt
lowering the pressure does work some. I had less problem on dirt. I dropped the while turning the bike on wet pavement when running about 70 pounds in them. I was going slow, and managed to clip out oven though the rig fell like a sack of sand.
I would run a schwalbe with more grip than the XR even if it didn' t last ten thousand miles. Even if it only lasted 5000.
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