Morbid Angel
Pebble Pounder
Nice look, POOR ability
Gotta say I had no issues with the bead, took 10 minutes to throw the tires on my rims, perhaps it is because I mounted them on a set of pro-line rims.. but yes they have a poorly designed bead, wasnt sure when I stretched the rubber over that they would seat proper, but they did. However...
These tires would be good for guys running full droop, or the yeti maybe, but for serious rock crawling?? I found in stock form they are horrible.
I could not get any grip on rocks that I was easily moving up and over with my usual mounted HPI Grabbers. I knew that the centre tread spacing was too tight from the the get go (and from 1:1 driving as well), so I cut them which improved the grabbing friction from stock drastically when sliding my hand over. So I threw them back on and had at it again with high hopes... again, the could not pull me up anything but the tamest rocks and angles. Poor vertical climb and zero side hilling ability. They could barely make it through my peek n tune course, struggling to make a very sloppy finish, and I had to white knuckle drive them with all my skill for this unacceptable outcome.
In an effort of comparison I mounted a set of crappy G*Made Bighorn tires that I had left soaking in wd40 and put them to the same test, exact same course that I have set up at home for gauging and testing my tweak and tunes. I gave up all hope after my G*made tires out performed the modded TSL's.
Very disappointed with the tires. I will eventually feel up to trying these out again, after some foam tuning and perhaps more aggressive tread cutting but....
In the mean time, back to my go to grabbers.
* a note on my rig, so you have an idea of what the tsl's where driven under:
XR10, semi droop, high clearance links, 4lbs 8 oz fully dressed.
Gotta say I had no issues with the bead, took 10 minutes to throw the tires on my rims, perhaps it is because I mounted them on a set of pro-line rims.. but yes they have a poorly designed bead, wasnt sure when I stretched the rubber over that they would seat proper, but they did. However...
These tires would be good for guys running full droop, or the yeti maybe, but for serious rock crawling?? I found in stock form they are horrible.
I could not get any grip on rocks that I was easily moving up and over with my usual mounted HPI Grabbers. I knew that the centre tread spacing was too tight from the the get go (and from 1:1 driving as well), so I cut them which improved the grabbing friction from stock drastically when sliding my hand over. So I threw them back on and had at it again with high hopes... again, the could not pull me up anything but the tamest rocks and angles. Poor vertical climb and zero side hilling ability. They could barely make it through my peek n tune course, struggling to make a very sloppy finish, and I had to white knuckle drive them with all my skill for this unacceptable outcome.
In an effort of comparison I mounted a set of crappy G*Made Bighorn tires that I had left soaking in wd40 and put them to the same test, exact same course that I have set up at home for gauging and testing my tweak and tunes. I gave up all hope after my G*made tires out performed the modded TSL's.
Very disappointed with the tires. I will eventually feel up to trying these out again, after some foam tuning and perhaps more aggressive tread cutting but....
In the mean time, back to my go to grabbers.
* a note on my rig, so you have an idea of what the tsl's where driven under:
XR10, semi droop, high clearance links, 4lbs 8 oz fully dressed.
