🖼 Reply to “Pictures and nothing else” thread 2024

[BenjaminF]

@glyphiks

I read out the blurb on the back and laughed that it said to ‘keep out of reach of idiots’ before proceeding to pour it into my mouth out of the bottle

Flawless, perfect, excellent, ten out of ten al sentence

[chr1spe]

Pictures and Nothing Else!

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What are those tires, and how are they?

[Ash]

@chr1spe

What are those tires, and how are they?

i believe these are it

@Dinnye

Meet the CST C190 9x3.50-4

[Dinnye]

Yeppp it’s these.

@chr1spe really depends on what your use case is.

They require a widened hub with 4" lips, total hub width around 85-95mm depending on preference. If you’d have the same setup I do by the time you’d get through a set of tires, you’d need to change hubs as well due to the bearing seats widening (although this can potentially be remedied by glueing in the bearings when the hub is still new) and get through multiple sets of bearings, assuming you don’t experiment with double row bearings which I didn’t end up doing yet.

Overall I’d say they aren’t ideal for bad roads, they are quite uncomfortable compared to most pneumatics due to their stiff sidewalls.

Where they shine is a race tire setup that can be trashed running over glass, taken offroad etc, can be taken to countless practice sessions (been racing on the same set for months, trying to do daily practise sessions when I could) while expecting decent performance on good surfaces in decent temperatures. They feel nice around the grip limit, they react quick, but aren’t so aggressive that you have to be on pro level to save it when you go over the limit. I’d say they are a really good tire for racing on intermediate to advanced level, assuming your board wouldn’t be sky high on around 210mm tires. In certain conditions they can compete in top level as well, but then they really need everything to be just right.

I definitely got my money’s worth with them, during the time I was using these I improved my racing skills a ton. I still use them on some race tracks and for riding my raceboard off track. But I’m gonna be experimenting with new tire setups next year, hoping to find something that isn’t so dependant on the conditions being right to perform at the top level.