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finally gave BiB Mousses a try

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
The best thing Ive done lately. Rode the first time (on my bike) with Fr and R mousses (Michelin) in my usual new FIM scorpion pros for a knock down drag out south of the border trail ride. I love not even thinking about get a flat or having to carry tubes and all the hardware. I need to say it again for long lasting tires forget about the Pro FIM rubber but for trials like climbing and wet boulder faces the FIM eco knob tires are amazing, mine started the morning new and after 2 loops of 35 miles each my rear has rounded knobs. I got hung up a couple of times and had some spinning moments which most likely did a number on the short knobs. The mousses are really really good (ask the WEC guys). I am never going back to tubes again. PS all we ever ride anymore is single track and ugly terrain. I hope someone viddied the "waterfall" section we did.
 
robertaccio said:
The best thing Ive done lately. Rode the first time (on my bike) with Fr and R mousses (Michelin) in my usual new FIM scorpion pros for a knock down drag out south of the border trail ride. I love not even thinking about get a flat or having to carry tubes and all the hardware. I need to say it again for long lasting tires forget about the Pro FIM rubber but for trials like climbing and wet boulder faces the FIM eco knob tires are amazing, mine started the morning new and after 2 loops of 35 miles each my rear has rounded knobs. I got hung up a couple of times and had some spinning moments which most likely did a number on the short knobs. The mousses are really really good (ask the WEC guys). I am never going back to tubes again. PS all we ever ride anymore is single track and ugly terrain. I hope someone viddied the "waterfall" section we did.
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The mousse RULE in the rocks
do get a little more wear on the side knobs esp., on the front as they roll over more
 
Never ran them my whole life and hardly ever had a flat, but a couple years ago while BSing with Jay Hall he said he ran them because you put all that time and prep to race, now add your drivetime and other expenses. I said makes sense, I do not feel like driving 5 hours to race (1 way) and DNF due to a flat**************************************** Does any one know how long the insert will last?? I have heard heat effects life.
 
Fletch,
I have used UHD tubes with slime for years and never flat them, but I think that the mousse actually weighs less just by feel before we put them in.
I ride almost every weekend with the "Welshman" he has used them for years from his home in Wales and now here as well. He clued me in from his long term experience. Install them use lots of the mousse grease supplied they feel like 13psi after a couple of rides they break in a little between 11-12 @ for a couple of months, then slowly get down into the mid single digit feel. One thing Dave says is if you can remove them and relube at least every 8 rides (@2 mos for me).
They will last longer. He rides friggan 4-5 times a week (yes that bugger!!) he gets about 6-8 mos out them, he says at about 7 on the last set they were sagging and felt like 8psi so he wrapped an old inner tube around it and e taped it in spiral and reinstalled it he said it feel again @ 10 and will last another month or so.
All he does (all of us do) is single track (see my Mex ride thread) like in the viddy, (yes they are both 310 four strokes in the viddy)...... not much heat build up at those speeds but if the lube goes away lots of inner tire to mousse friction (just like on our tubes you see that as well) and that kills the mousses. Dont know about you but my rears are good for @ 8 rides or maybe 2 months at most anyway so off they come and its relube the mousse time, as for fronts longer of course so I'll yank them for mousse re-lube and re-install.

if you have never ridden on them as far as Im concerned you can feel the difference more in the front they just really absord sharp hits with a kind of dead feeling which is a good thing for HSCD rock/root hits, to me the rear is not very noticeable at all. They took me about 1 mile at most to aclimate to, very easy stuff no real adjustment time, not cheap but really another bullet proof measure that takes another thing off your mind while on the gas. I am sold.

watch the Fin technique on youtube its the best way to do them, get out and buy 6 yes 6 lipped tire spoons and ground level bead breaker and get on it, Sam Aro style!!!
 
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