Specialized Mountain Bike Tires Fast Track
This rings true whether you are churning out miles on pavement grinding gravel backroads racing your local cyclocross course or blasting dirt trails on your mountain bike.
Specialized mountain bike tires fast track. Specialized s works fast trak mountain bike tire 650b x 2 2 2bliss tubeless. Specialized fast trak and ground control mountain bike tire review by dustin gaddis on nov 14 2011 imagine my surprise when when a local bike shop employee sent me an e mail informing me their specialized sales rep had left a pair of new specialized 29er tires for me to. Free shipping on many items. The ground control was produced a long time ago but the new tire shares nothing with the old other than the name.
Widths for these tires range from 2 3 all the way to 2 8 and even 3 0 with the latter two widths referred to as plus tires which are known for their superb traction. I think they would make a very good race tire provided your race is on track made from pillows feathers and spongey foam. This is the hallmark of specialized s gripton compound which has a durometer of 56a making it softer than many other tires helping it conform to the surface it s rolling over and filter vibration for a smooth ride. The specialized fast trak is a mountain bike tire that fits the medium knob height class and competes with tires like the schwalbe racing ralph conti race king and maxxis ikon.
Mountain bike tires targeted at trail enduro and downhill bikes are progressively wider more durable and have toothier traction enhancing tread blocks. I can t believe how easily these tires cut and big cuts too that stans is not able to deal with. The specialized fast trak is also super supple especially the sidewalls which makes mounting and setting up tubeless easy and helps the tire truly conform to trail obstacles. The new fast trak and ground control are the first two mountain bike tires that use fea in the design process.
Urban e bike tyres when it comes to tire technology fitness and e bike tyres probably aren t the first categories that come to mind. It can be argued that tires may be the most important and most affordable upgrades you can put on your bike. These came on my specialized s works. I m testing the s works version of the fast trak which is the most expensive version and should be the fastest fast trak available.