bit the bullet and bought some mitas/trelleborgs

tired of messing with home-jobs and found a smoking deal on these via ebay. 500 shipped for pair factory mitas glued and studded. came from latvia! only took a few days amazingly! the front tire is marked with an arrow for direction but the rear is not. anyone familiar with these have a good idea which way the rear goes? you can see theres a center lug that has a "u" shape of studs, want to make sure these go the right way as i really dont want to dismount these for awhile! cant wait to try em out



while shopping, i saw ALOT of tires for sale with crooked studs, studs missing, or tires with only one stud per knob. they were all much more expensive.

Hells Teeth Man!

They look more offensive than a Magnum .44

Awesome.

I am a big fan of Mitas tyres, and am not happy riding on anything else here in the UK.
I do a lot of mud and muddy hills. The grip is tremendous, especially with a bit of spin.

When I first put them on, my riding pals though I had been on a rider training course - they made THAT much difference.
Hence why I don't like anything else.

Not all that pleasant at 45mph on tarmac, but they straighten out at 50mph. Not studded obviously

And to top it all, less than £100 for two tyres

Mike

I believe the stripe should be on the shifter side of bike.That info was given to me by a Mitas dealer.

that makes sense to me, seems to be the right direction for the center knobs. thanks!
edit: the front is marked with a chalk arrow and this does put the stripe on the left side.

i would run mitas since they have the molds trelleborg used but mitas are impossible to find in the states, other than these. and the studded models are difficult to find without being gouged on price

tried em out today and these tires truly rock. i really dont think you can stop a bike with these. we have quite a bit of snow out here and where it isnt packed its kinda slow going but on packed trails the handling and traction is truly unreal. at this riding area the only problem was where the quads and sxs had rode they packed their little lanes down, it was hard to not catch the fluffy stuff and jackknife the front end. i was hoping the snowmobiles would have had it packed down a bit more evenly. hills were no match for the studded 360.

we were on some of the single track and it had to be almost a foot deep. theres no stopping the mitas tho! in the middle of the 600 acres is this powerline section that is fun. at the bottom of the pic you can see a nice 360 rut where i wanted to see if i could make the hill from a stop! i went down 3 times today in 3.5 hours and burned a hole in my klim dakar pants ! none of that was the tires fault, i was hauling in 3rd every time and i would be in a packed rut going great and get sucked into the foot high drift and then its time to fold the front end over. hopefully a bit will melt away and i can do some more testing.