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I kind of came to it from another direction. I was looking for a DOT tire. That was my primary driving factor. Every tire is a compromise in one way or another. Most DOT tires suck. A few are not too bad. So I decided to try a MT43 on back in the spring and went to Spangler. I was expecting it to suck horribly in the sand. It totally blew me away. I like a little flat track action from time to time and I have found that in the desert on the decomposed granite you can still break it loose and let the rear hang out. It is a bit harder to get it broken loose though, even in the deep sand. I was able to do some of the sandy hill climbs in the "invader" zone that I was never able to make it up before. The fact that it looks like I will get 2000 miles on the tire also is part of the equation. Now I did mount a knobby for the KM trail maintenance last month. I didn't think that the MT43 and the snow would be a good mix. It seems to work OK on the pavement as well. I have about 200 miles on the tarmac. It's no Distanzia though. I have a soft terrain Pirelli DOT on the front so I'm not exactly attempting to scrape the pegs in the corners.Even if I go Tubliss I may still carry a tube. Most of the guys I ride with don't carry one, and if I don't carry one I think it might be a ride back to the truck to retrieve one as some trails we ride are not flat ridable. If you hit a nail even the Tubliss could still get punctured.
I kind of came to it from another direction. I was looking for a DOT tire. That was my primary driving factor. Every tire is a compromise in one way or another. Most DOT tires suck. A few are not too bad. So I decided to try a MT43 on back in the spring and went to Spangler. I was expecting it to suck horribly in the sand. It totally blew me away. I like a little flat track action from time to time and I have found that in the desert on the decomposed granite you can still break it loose and let the rear hang out. It is a bit harder to get it broken loose though, even in the deep sand. I was able to do some of the sandy hill climbs in the "invader" zone that I was never able to make it up before.
The fact that it looks like I will get 2000 miles on the tire also is part of the equation. Now I did mount a knobby for the KM trail maintenance last month. I didn't think that the MT43 and the snow would be a good mix.
It seems to work OK on the pavement as well. I have about 200 miles on the tarmac. It's no Distanzia though. I have a soft terrain Pirelli DOT on the front so I'm not exactly attempting to scrape the pegs in the corners.
Even if I go Tubliss I may still carry a tube. Most of the guys I ride with don't carry one, and if I don't carry one I think it might be a ride back to the truck to retrieve one as some trails we ride are not flat ridable. If you hit a nail even the Tubliss could still get punctured.
