{"id":215,"date":"2007-07-19T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/tire-test\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:47:58","slug":"tire-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/19\/tire-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did a test run on the Michelin <em>Mountain A\/T<\/em>&#8216;s yesterday after\u00c2\u00a0I got home.\u00c2\u00a0 I can notice a difference between them and the <em>XCR A\/T<\/em>&#8216;s.\u00c2\u00a0 They feel more cushy and have better off-camber and cornering traction.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a little more knob flex -\u00c2\u00a0even though the knobs have a larger footprint, they are also taller.\u00c2\u00a0 The knob flex is noticable on hardpacked surfaces or pavement, but not on softer, looser surfaces.\u00c2\u00a0 I ran them across asphalt, concrete, short lawn, tall grass, packed gravel, loose dirt and packed dirt.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I had to correct the calibration for the computer.\u00c2\u00a0 The <em>XCR A\/T<\/em> 2.0 was 2095mm EOD.\u00c2\u00a0 The <em>Mountain A\/T<\/em> 2.2 is 2107mm EOD.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if the visual size difference appears to be small, the actual measured dimentional difference is fairly significant.<\/p>\n<p>These are great tires, even better than the <em>XCR A\/T<\/em>&#8216;s.\u00c2\u00a0 The deserving successor to the venerable\u00c2\u00a0<em>Wild Gripper<\/em> S 2.0 and 2.2<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a06.75-miles, Vavr = 11.25, 36-minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did a test run on the Michelin Mountain A\/T&#8216;s yesterday after\u00c2\u00a0I got home.\u00c2\u00a0 I can notice a difference between them and the XCR A\/T&#8216;s.\u00c2\u00a0 They feel more cushy and have better off-camber and cornering traction.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a little more knob flex -\u00c2\u00a0even though the knobs have a larger footprint, they are also taller.\u00c2\u00a0 The knob [&hellip;]<\/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\/paJYlx-3t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}