Nevegal questions

[uncle crud]

I try to stop being the Nevegal cheerleader, really I do. But even on my ride for the 4th when I put the Maxxis 2.35 "freeride" singleply on my trail bike for a nice long ride that has a super-varied techie descent including some soft loose dirt sections, I found myself wishing I had the Nevegals. I guess I corner like a little girl.

[kidwoo]

I guess I corner like a little girl.

Not necessarily.

Look at this video

Three parts.....mine, my buddy john, and then Karl

John rides nevegals and Karl rides rides more like I (try to) do and karl and I usually agree more on tires. There's a section with a double in kind of a flat area with a left hand turn (rut). Watch how john just kind of sticks to it and watch how karl smacks into the thing (after a short manual) and then catches. We usually all ride about the same speed but go about it differently. Despite my ranting, it's just as much about if you like to belly out turns or square them off. Tires with a deep groove are easy to recover once you start drifting. Tires like the nevy with that intermediate knob tend to just keep sliding. I started skiing because it feels like smacking berms and recovering

http://www.kidwoo.com/images/movies/...20Training.wmv

[flowtron]

I try to stop being the Nevegal cheerleader, really I do. But even on my ride for the 4th when I put the Maxxis 2.35 "freeride" singleply on my trail bike for a nice long ride that has a super-varied techie descent including some soft loose dirt sections, I found myself wishing I had the Nevegals. I guess I corner like a little girl.

No sweat. Like woo said, different strokes for different folks.
Plus, once you ride a particular shape and tread for a while, its generally tough to switchto something else and dig it right off the bat. I tried a bunch of different rubber this spring in a fruitless effort to see if I could ween myself from the Maxxis teat to no avail. I would usually end the ride kinda bummed I didn't have my DHFs, having suffered flats, dumb crashes and even rolled a tire right off the rim w/out popping the tube in one case.
We sell a lot of Weirwolfs, Nevegals and Minions at my place of work, people rave about all of them, but the most common complaint is Nevegals pinch flatting.

[uncle crud]

thanks for those comments, kidwoo & flowtron. kidwoo, I'm downloading the movie now.

As a general cornering thing, I try to carve my turns -- is that what you mean by "belly out," kidwoo?

I ski the same way. I'm not keen on high-speed smearing of turns on snow or on dirt. I like feeling hooked up, so that I can change direction in a moment without having to redirect everything radically.

That big gap between the center knobs and the edge knobs on a tire like the Minion sits right where I usually corner. So it makes me drift, which I don't like. Or I have to corner more upright, or leaned WAAAAY over to finally engage those side knobs. But I can see how a drift & square turn technique might prefer the Minion. It is Sam Hill's favorite tire, right? He is the drift-meister. But then, he could probably ride snot-slick roots on a bald tire.

I know the Nevegal singleply is prone to pinch flats. But strangely, on my July 4 ride, I got a front tire pinchflat with the Minion singleply. The trail had sharp rock water diversions, and I pronged one of the rock edges with the front tire.