Just remember - not really worth throwing votes at them unless you get a bunch of people to do so for a full three months. For a lesser known tire you need to get a bunch of people to give them some votes (and momentum) on the leader board right from the start. Need to play the system…
If anyone has a vote left this month - throw it at the Booster. It’s currently one vote out of getting through this month, would be great to start voting up something else.
Booster is in on a tie-breaker right now - let’s hope it isn’t kicked off last minute.
Apart from the Schwalbe Rick XC Speed 2.25, the Python Race actually looks to be the most promising MTB tire to vote for next month - still has full 90 days and 12 votes already, so if it can get a boost early it may pick up momentum.
bought an extra 1 month of BRR pro subscription (next to my yearly one) to help the situation
Lets keep Booster in a winning position, and bring up Python Race in January
Please don’t call it just Python, but Python Race. The regular Python is much less interesting than the Python Race. By consistently referring to the Python Race by its correct name, we avoid confusion.
Yes, for sure. Comparing the puncture resistance and everything else objectively would be great. Getting trail/enduro tires enough votes on BRR to get tested is difficult though.
I’ve been voting for the Python Race, but would really like to see some ‘trail/enduro’ tires just to compare. After throwing votes at those tires in the past I’ve quit trying, but would love to see what the new Schwalbe radials do.
I don’t generally run XC tires, except on gravel, so I tend to try and pick out casing trends to apply to meatier treads (Nobby Nics are my current fast/grippy enough choice).
according to Schwalbe, the new radial tires rolls slower compared to the “standard” version
bet it grips more too, but any tire with serious knobs almost certainly “fail” the BRR grip test due to the test method which emphasize more “smooth” rubber and more flat contact surface.
BRR test is far from perfect… for example why test 2.4 tires at 1.7bar as minimum pressure? Who runs that high?
Off course it would give very close numbers compared to 2.25 tires, where 1.7bar would be still high, but not that crazy high…
Really hope BRR will have a test run with the same manufacturer-same tire, just with different sizes: 2.25 vs 2.4 but with real life adjusted pressure!
Myself at around 65kg, on xc(m) races i tend to run 2.25 tires at 1.2-1,3bar rear(race king) but just 1.0-1.05bar in case of 2.4 Vittoria Peyote…
Or what is the point of testing wider road tires (30mm) at 6.2bar and 7.4bar (just to keep all test data “aligned”, while the manufacturer (Continental) allowed maximum pressure is 5bar…