How about those Stock Tires?

[singletracker]

I have to ask. Am I the only person that digs these stock Metzler tires? The front is my new favorite front tire for intermediate to soft. I haven't tried it on hardpack yet, but so far it seems to stick like glue. The big shocker is the rear! I thought the short FIM knobs would be a real downer, but it's also working great in the same conditions. Am I out of my mind?

2011 250 Race

 

[gasgasman]

I never did ride mine with the ISDE rear.
The front I love. I even replaced it with the same tire when I needed to replace it.

Marty Halmazna told me on the ISDE rear, when you approach a rocky section sit there for a few seconds and do a quick burn out. It heats up the tire and provides amazing grip.

 

[singletracker]

Luckily I don't have to deal with many rocks where I ride, but we do have some hardpack courses later in the year.

 

[singletracker]

It sounds like you are riding in more slop than I am. Is the Unicross an intermediate tire? I need to buy a new rear before the first race, and honestly I haven't found a rear tire that I'm 100% satisfied with yet. I've tried several Pirelli's, Dunlops, Bridgestone and Michelin s-12 so far.

 

[Simmo737]

The metzeler 6de is the 2nd most awesome front out there, only beaten by the 6de-hard, slightly firmer side wall and slightly softer compound, tread is very similar , just square side knobs. Everyone round my parts uses them with either a metzeler mc4 or IRC m5b soft rears. We ride on rock, mud, clay, loam, creek beds, almost desert like trails, grass tracks...you name it and everyone will be on the same fronts and one of those two rears, maybe the occasional s12 rear.

I got 1100km out of my stock front...amazing.

The rear is a good tire just doesn't last as well/perform in mud as well as the others. You will see people competing on them in road legal required enduros sometimes ( most people just use nhs tyres anyway).

 

[Simmo737]

Ps the Australian off road championship ( enduro/ sprint off road) won by Chris Hollis on 6de fronts and rears and the seniors won by Trent lean on metzeler as well... They are good.

 

[singletracker]

It looks like I have a couple of new tires to try out.

 

[Cruiser]

people like those tires?? I had a set once.. ran them twice and tossed them out.. completely useless in the rocks and in the mud. The front washed so bad I thought I had a flat.. Maybe they made a drastic change in them?

 

[singletracker]

The front is great, but I ditched the back for the Metzler MC4.

 

[Elvis74]

I love the Metzeler F?Sixdays Front and for hard packed the Sixdays Front hard!
The Rear tire I use only when FIM tires are required.