Pneumatic Wheel Compendium (Serious)

what are the best tires that are compatible with evolve hubs? I have BKB v2 tires now and they’re great for me but I saw the metroboard 153 tires today and they look nice.

Bkb v2s are the best I’ve tested for “regular” width wheels.

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these look neat

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I’m pretty sure these are now the best available for standard width rims (they also work on extra wide ones), but I’ll be able to confirm once I test them at esk8con. I’m hoping to run the 7" ones as my default non racing ones.

I think mboards might have really hit it out of the park with these. Even the pricing isn’t bad (assuming they last).

Linnpowers new racing slicks are supposed to be amazing as well. It’s great to have these two options come out.

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Wtf is that product description :rofl:

Well, we haven’t figured it out yet. It’s like trying to solve the mystery of how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop. The world may never know, but we’re working on it.

Welp. I may need to find this out.

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How
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Licks

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Picking up a set to test out!

Tire
Tube link

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all four tires came like this. Inflated them on a rim and they’re awful

called em up. He said

leave one fully inflated on the rim, see how it does
leave one in the sun, see how it does

if not, return it

:person_shrugging: i’m gonna humor him, but these are looking like a no-go. I’ll probably order them from a different site and see how that goes.

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Try CST C190. They’ve got 8x3 and 9x3.5. Same 4" ID. @Swol_Moon tried both and he really wants to get me on stretched 8x3s. I have only tried the 9x3.5s yet. The 8x3s are a softer compound apparently and they don’t have the same super stiff sidewalls that the 9x3.5s have. Which makes you able to heat them up…

The 9x3.5 are definitely super hard to heat up, I can get them to ambient +15C if I am pushing them super hard. But around 20-25C surface temp they already have around 1G cornering grip in my usual i2s spot. Around 35-40C surface temp I managed to pull 1.3-1.4G and I couldn’t find their limit yet. And in summer temperatures they will only get better.

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Those look like what I was supposed to receive. I found a local company selling them, but shipping doubles the cost of the tire (no tubes), so I have to find a better place to buy them

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Had a chance to try those out? Keen to hear how they perform

They balanced really well. Im only about 10km into riding them but they feel pretty good, grippy, linear on gravel, didnt behave badly on wet grass either. Durability will be the key issue I think. I will give them this tho. The little spiky nubs were still on the contact patch after the ride today so hopeful the compound is good too.

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how do they fare off-road? like rough terrain, rock gardens etc.

They perform much like the CST 200x50 I have on the Flux. The tread will obviously bog up with mud quickly but for x-trail. Ill be getting a stack to alternate on hubs depending on the ride im doing. I’ll still use the mbs knobbies for anything involving grass or mud, off road but for commuting, these are the way. Ill go through half as many tyres.

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I just got back from a very, very wet ride over variable surfaces and i know that ill be getting a bulk amount of these for general commuting.

I did manage to get a flat already, picked up a sharp stone in the centre groove, and was just unlucky. I may revisit tyre liners down the line.

Grip: more than adequate in the wet on tarmac, concrete, grass and gravel. In the dry they carve and grip as much as i need them to… they only place they didnt do ‘more than’ ok was mud… but in saying that, they did better than a CST roadie so is still a positive.

Balance: No issues at all. I think 10g was the.most i used.

Terrain: they dont pperform as well as the MBS off roads naturally so cant be marked down for that either. As noted, mud/off-road arent the strong point but certainly not a weakness either.

Price: ~16-18 aud. landed cost. Which is excellent imo

Compound: TBD but impressions are good, it took over 50km to wear off the mold spikes on the contact patch so will update in a month or so. With the wet and cold here, it seems Ill be using this board more than the others so souldnt take long to get a feel.

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Anyone in the know want to update this wiki post with some hoyt 5’s info?

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Just got these stinkers, 5" - 127mm, 27mm wide


The wheel bearing spacing is too wide to use it as is. I intend to 3d print a hub and double stack them.

The page says max load 40kg, well double stacked would be 80kg per wheel.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32821616630.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.98.327d1802QyQiAF