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Het jy die max grip of max terra? En 2.5 of 2.6?

The Rimpact I'm looking at is less than half the weight and 1000 bucks for 2. (Exc shipping and vat) cushcore is R2750 a set and half a KG. Those are my reasons.

I Was on the verge of pulling the trigger on a Maxx Terra Assigai 2.5, but I want to check out the Kenda Pinner Pro this weekend. My riding buddy has one up front. It looks like the typical Assigai rip off with better rolling resistance. It will probably have slightly less grip, who knows, I'm sure there's a tradeoff. I'm thinking it may be the height of the actual knobs thats slightly lower, in which case I cant see it having the same performance, but Im guessing here, so let me rather shut up and confirm @Headshot, I'm well jealous of your aggressor performance. I highly rate the tire, It grips fine on everything but very steep stuff when its snotty, but mine definitely deforms& burps when I push it into turns. Its that insert of yours that's making the difference. I wish they were available off the shelf locally. I'm going to get some Rimpacts. Let me know if you want in.

Thanks for the feedback. I dont miss grip to much on the DHF, but there are sections where its hard to lean the bike over and sink the sideknobs of the DHF. But really. It probably wont make 15 seconds difference..

So Gents, I need some help deciding.. The topic is Tyres! My main focus is Enduro, I have 2 x wheelsets, one runs lightweights for loger endurance rides, the other my typical Jonkershoek wheelset that I would race on. Bike is 160/150 29 and I don't need the tires to corner for me, If you know what I mean. I kind of know how to corner. I've been running MAXXIS DHF 2.5WT-Dual Compound EXO+ front and AGGRESSOR 2.5 EXO Maxx terra on the rear for the last 18 months. They are only starting to degrade on the corner knobs and could be fine for another while IF I ignored the itch in my ass.. I would actually just like to replace the front so get a new sharp tire for the EWC race on the 24th and move the DHF to the rear as It is also EXO+ I know the Assegai is the bees knees as far as grip goes, but I'm considering the MaxTerra so Its not too slow rolling. Considering I hardly ever ride in the wet. OR, should I look for a Max Grip DHF ? Has anyone compared the two?

Yes, something different for sure! very cool day. I like the top half of Armageddon more, and in fact often skip the bottom half, but the climb up there is hard, so I'm OK with that was wondering if they may bring in the DH track as I saw the jumps have been primed and I almost diverted on my last visit.. And so I will have to! Not even sure where it starts though. All I can say is 1800m and 35km is going to hurt. I entered because the initial page said 25km, LOL!! Saaltjie, after what most would consider a big day out already is going to be a teambuilding exercise. But we are doing it together, and thats what counts right! 😁 The place is going to be packed this weekend.

I thought you said it felt like Etzabeth;) Glad you're not too hurt. I need to come do some recce's. I have not done plummer since EWC 2019! It's not the trail you'll make massive time on but you could lose lots of time If you don't get it right. And then If they decide to make the DH trail part of it for instance, I've never actually ridden it. I think It will dry up by Wednesday and I may try get there for an afternoon ride, otherwise Saturday of course.

So @ChristiaanSt& @PhilipV You two seem to be in the know.. I don't really want the stages to be published in advance as It will make for even more practicing on course, which is inevitable, I mean there are only so many tracks in Jonkers.. But can you elude to the amount of climbing we are in for ? Christiaan mentioned the runs are not all full pull vibes, which is exactly what I shouldn't have heard as my panic training has now taken a backseat I'm sure its not going to be much less than 1500m though ey? Regards

Was one of them hurt more seriously? I doubt it was their first times hitting that. Just doesn't seem logical that they would do a train on a first attempt. The guy in front probably didn't have quite enough speed which got the best of him, the second guy was just a passenger by that time. I was looking at that drop the other day. One could make quite the sick roll in from the cliff behind the drop If given access. One could build it at just the right place so you don't even have to pedal. Only because the uphill roll in can be tricky as proven here.. One loses speed quite quickly once you stop to set up for the drop.

😁We send together, we eat dirt together! Didn't mean to be nasty. Glad they are OK.

All the gear and no idear

How did the oke in front go down? And what's the Duster doing up there? I mean I'd give my left nut for a shuttle pass in jonkershoek. Imagine dealing with traffic while trying to ride there lol 😆 Joy's of fatherhood I tell you. The ballie class really deserves much more recognition than we get.

Year one..that thing was like 2m into a rooted shoot. So frigging exhilarating.

Sigh. It didn't. I was all packed and loaded up the night before and woke up feeling 50 shades of not ok yesterday. I was convinced I'm coming down with something as my whole family has been fighting the flu. I pulled the plug as I didn't feel up to a wrestling match with the plumber and thought it's not with taking the chance . On the bright side I'm not sick yet, and get to fight another day. And can try a 2:30 ride this weekend if I don't get to the valley of milk and honey. The ugly truth is as a bit of fitness will get me just as far as a course recon will right now. Although if there's one trail to recon, plumber is the one. I won't feel completely comfortable racing that thing blindly. Although..We've hit some pretty gnarly sections blind at full commitment at Witfontein in the passed.

I think I know what you're referring to, it's a roll though, scary as a drop as it's rough there. Actually lank dangerous in my opinion which is why it's usually taped off. The kind of thing that will send riders over the bars. If not checked out first. The little drop and jump thereafter is just mind over matter and carrying enough speed. Don't go in tentatively, although the worst that can happen is a bad case.. kind of. But I'm taking about 3 years back, so let me give feedback after Wednesday.

The drop at the top of Plumber is only scary because it's blind. It really not that hard. The biggest thing on that trail is holding your line through the rocks in the middle. I'm due for a bit of that. May check it out on Wednesday morning. The drops at IM is not so hard but they come at a place where one typically does not took to far ahead and there's no lip on them which caused more than a couple of OTB's last time. I'm thinking it's time to check Both of those trails out asbI have not done the top half of IM or Plumber sinceb2019 SA Champs 🤔

Entered as well. Wonder which stages we will be hitting, probably sections of all of them, Unless we hit the DH track, which is looking pretty sick after some work recently. Its actually cool not knowing the stages, It evens it out a bit, like Witfontein, only a handfull of locals gets to ride the trails beforehand, the rest of us ride blind on the day. Bike is running sweet right now, the Mezzer is sick. It took quite a while to get it set up right. A fork is only as good as its set up, and that's the reason I got it, because everything is tunable on there. Running 30mm sag but only used 120 out of 160mm last night and Its making bumps disappear. I use full travel on "proper trails" but It doesn't give it up to easily. LSC+HSC without harshness. I've always been overdamped on forks which are aimed at 75kg - 90kg riders. I'm seriously excited, and chuffed I was able to get to this point with it. The only think I need to sort out before the race is my ghost shifting, which almost had me over the bars on the little double line on Iron Monkey the other day, And perhaps fine tune the tires.. Nox111 gave me a Fomo insert, which I may use for the rear, but at lower pressures the sidewall is actually to flexable to push through berms without burping anyway. Even the EXO+ I have in front is notably more stable at lower speeds and doesn't squirm much, although I've only used it in the rear. I may just get a new DHF for the front and run the old EXO+ on the rear, I've noticed a lot of guys doing that on Insta. Pitty they don't make the Agressor in EXO+ and softer compound as its not a bad tire. Ive got 1500km on mine at the moment, and its doing an OK job..

Good news 👏 Thanks for that. To be honnest, Very vew guys can actually "race" even 4 full stages in Jonkers. But I'd be keen for this. Although my favorite part of pretty much all of the trails are the top halfs.

So I found the actual thread Meezo. Have you entered? Ya Jonkers is a bit more Physical than Witfontein. You have to be prepared for that thing. It will eat you alive. By the bottom of most trails I have armpump and struggling. Its full on stealth squad training from now on, and you'll still be losing 2-3 minutes to the "pro's" down Armageddon.

I'm not aware of a Thread on this yet.. If I missed It, appologies in advance. Does anyone have any more information on the stages? https://www.entryninja.com/events/78086-western-cape-enduro Western Cape Enduro hosted at Jonkershoek Sun 25 Sep 2022, 07:00 @ Stellenbosch, Western Cape Race Information: Full Race - 5 stages 25km Lite Race - 3 stages 17km I'm very excited to get the opportunity to do a race as I couldn't attend Witfontein this year. However, 5 stages.. One month of training to go, Im not exactly going to be fighting fit.. Even If I manage to get a couple of big rides in, I think I'd be at my limit If I had to pedal up to Red Phoenix twice, at the moment not to mention, two of those + saaltjie x2 (pretty much) and on top of that, another stage, which the only other option is Firehut. Is it just me or is that beyond 80% of riders looking to partake? Unless they break the trails up in shorter stages, but I'm not sure they would want to do that.

Haha, Nice bro. Its good that you dont mind the abuse. Each to their own.

Ya I think you describe most of our problems well. And that hardly ever completely goes away. The more expensive forks just has better LSC which helps keep the front up without adding harshness, and even those have to be tuned to your weight, or they will be overdamped. Some also have more "tuned" airspring. The Debonair 2 spring (Rockshox) tried to address that a bit at the cost of a bit of small bump sensitivity. https://www.rideformula.com/technologies/neopos/ I experimented with these, to try get a more linear progression curve, and they made a huge difference. I'm a fan! Being a lighter rider I already struggled getting full travel (RS PIKE) So these allow you to run 20% sag while the support from the airspring and added volume spacers helped the bike stand up but then they get compressed through the last part of the travel, making full travel attainable, instead of running into a wall of progression, and getting a harsh feeling fork. I ran 2 full NEOPOS spacers, and lower pressures. (they are the size of 4 normal volume tokens!) I now have a Manitou Mezzer which has one built in, much like the "RUNT" aftermarket one.

Those things are Ugly AF.. BMX Wheely Kids vibse 😁Nee man! I wont be caught dead.. More spacers under the stem?

Its obviously specific to where you ride, but I don't like to mess with air pressures once they are right. In general though, I think we typically run forks to hard. Listen to the Pinkbike Podcast with Jesse Melamed... Comfort comes first, even for those strong guys. I typically air up my fork to much after a service(cause I often cant remember the exact pressure it was on) slightly to firm feels about right in the garage.. but after riding something like Armageddon (top to bottom)the first time after the service I go down a couple of PSI for best result. It actually feels a bit to soft in the parking lot test, but experience have taught me to leave it alone. I don't necessarily think the fork should bottom on each ride, unless you hit big g-outs every ride, one wants to reserve some travel for special occasions

No racing for you this year @Christofison? Top 10 mostly new faces I see.