Great tyre upgrade. Let us know how it rides on the road and gravel.

LeFinch Yeah, will do! I need to take a break from riding though, have overdone it and have some nerve pain in my toes 🤦🏼 Going to try and resist the urge for a week.

I gave it a bit of a go today, pumped it up to about 31 PSI and it certainly has a different handling profile on tarmac when it comes to tight turns. I’ll report back properly when I have a few more miles in on it.

Marc Roberts might feel a bit more squishy around the corners as you riding on the edge tyre tread

LeFinch I was running the stock tyre at 25 psi, so this is feeling VERY firm whatever I do, but my first impressions are that slight slow turns the wheel stays fairly flat, but there’s a point where it leans quite suddenly, it’s fine though just will take some getting used to, it’s just not as Linear A response as the stock tyre.

It’s a little louder but nowhere near as loud as I was expecting!

The main measure will be how it performs on gravel though, the main reason I bought it (and the reason for running the stock tyre at 25) is squirrelliness on gravel.

Marc Roberts this should make big difference on the rough stuff. Looking forward to your feedback.

Changing the wheel is one big modification most people can have a go at. Stock tyres might not be the best for the kind of riding you will want to do.
Would it be possible for you to do some video of the new tyre or road and on road. Lol I don't want much do I.

Have fun and stay safe.

Ian S For sure, as soon as I've had some time to have a play and get my thoughts together I plan to make a video coving the tyre and the Russian pads 👍🏼

Nice work!
On my first attempt fitting a knobby tire to my KS18XL I shortened the length of the knobs evenly just to make it fit the wheel, but that didn’t work for me. The knobs on the edge prevented smooth carving. It was fine on wide turns, but on sharper turns, it wanted to over-lean too much. It went from me pushing the wheel down into the turn, and then it just dropped and I had to push it up with my other leg. I felt like I lost some of the playfulness in the wheel, so I changed back to the stock tire and left the project for a year.

On my next attempt, I used an electric file and filed down the edge knobs so that the wheel got and even curve, and that really helped. Now the wheel behaves just as stable in turns as the road tire and it's absolutely awesome off-road.

But Marc Roberts where is your WD40?

Beagler 🙂 never far away! I was expecting to need to use some to remove the pedals but they popped off easily.