{"id":212,"date":"2007-07-17T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T03:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/treads\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T03:20:28","slug":"treads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/17\/treads\/","title":{"rendered":"Treads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"at_1248a.JPG\"<\/a>Just installed some Michelin Mountain A\/T<\/em> 26 x 2.2 tires on the XC bike.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re essentially the same tread pattern as the XCR A\/T<\/em> 26 x 2.0 tires that were on there before, but are wider.\u00c2\u00a0 According to specs, these are supposedly 640g each, up from the 560g each for the XCR A\/T<\/em>‘s.\u00c2\u00a0 Both models are folding, have the grey silica dual-compound treads, and\u00c2\u00a0127 tpi casings.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 The XCR A\/T<\/em>‘s are great tires, but they are narrow.\u00c2\u00a0 They are labeled as “2.0”, but set up more like “1.8”.\u00c2\u00a0 Likewise, these Mountain A\/T<\/em>‘s are narrow for their labeled 2.2 size, measuring out at 50mm on Mavic XC 717 disc<\/em> rims (should have measured the actual size of the XCR A\/T<\/em>‘s before I took them off).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an excellent tread pattern – it would be\u00c2\u00a0great to have them in\u00c2\u00a0“2.4”…<\/p>\n


\n\"at_1249a.JPG\"<\/a>I’m hoping for a little more traction and a little more stability with these without gaining a pile of rolling resistance.\u00c2\u00a0 The narrow XCR A\/T<\/em>‘s tend to get a little jumpy in the babyheads, and sink into the walnut-sized crumbly rock we’ve been seeing at the Waimano mystery zone.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure the transition will be seamless and I won’t really notice a big difference since they’re essentially the same tire.\u00c2\u00a0 The Mountain A\/T<\/em>‘s will probably get a neighborhood\u00c2\u00a0test ride or two before going on to Whistler, which will be the acid test.\u00c2\u00a0 The XCR A\/T<\/em>‘s will probably go back on when I get back.<\/p>\n

Just a note, they are called out as “Mountain A\/T<\/em>” on the Michelin webpage and in most other literature, but the tires themselves are labeled “Mountain A. T.<\/em>” on the casing.\u00c2\u00a0 Likewise, the XCR A\/T<\/em> says “XCR A. T.<\/em>” on the casing.\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just installed some Michelin Mountain A\/T 26 x 2.2 tires on the XC bike.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re essentially the same tread pattern as the XCR A\/T 26 x 2.0 tires that were on there before, but are wider.\u00c2\u00a0 According to specs, these are supposedly 640g each, up from the 560g each for the XCR A\/T‘s.\u00c2\u00a0 Both models […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-treads","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}