How to Choose a Tire for your Adventure Bike

Great information and explanation. Thank you.

I’m going with 80/20 - 90/10 tires if I can find them for my 300L. Shinko 705’s sound good to me.

I haven't taken my Africa Twin offroad yet....not sure I plan to either.

I would buy from RevZilla but I am in Canada so I order from Fortnine

Great vid... My VStrom 1050XT needs a new front tire, this will be very helpful.

Good information

Paul From Australia , I love Karl Bradshaw and his tyre reviews. Unfortunately one fantastic tyre that’s well 59/50 Is the Goldentyre GT723/823 a fantastic tyre that just as good as the Motoz Rallz ( gives similar miles but just that little better in well everything. ) Karl would love to test them but cannot seem to get them - not sure 🤔 if that a US thing. Also running say a 80/20 front and 50/50 is also a good option, as on dirt you want more traction on the front ( to stop wash outs ) rear can slide around and that’s fine . Also both tyres will last longer .

What jacket are you wearing?

ok, have a silly question but here it goes. I have a ktm 890R "Duke" and love riding into baja. i'm fitting a surf rack on it and looking at a good dual sport tire that does well in loose sand more than hard pack. Any comment's welcome.

what a garage. My god, that is a dream right there :) Love your videos

In your video, there is no 50-50 tires two of those are 80% Road and 20% off-road and the last one is 80% off Road and 20% Road 😂😂

I’m putting 70/30’s on my z650, I ride dirt roads I swear.

Centerbeade or dog paw pads on rear unless the bike is full-time dirt then you can get Nabi on the rear

If you ride in dirt moderately get a Nabi front tire and dog paw pad rear or Center bead no point wasting rear tires wear out when they're Nabis

Dear Ian, thank you so much for your great work, it is so helpful for many people!

I am turning my 2013 iron 883 into a scrambler because where I live and work our roads are either sorta smooth or trash or gravel. I do not want to be tied down to just highway riding. I want to cruise those back roads as well. I don't plan to go mudding but I do want to ride gravel and hard dirt sometimes.

I laugh every time I see an overweight, middle-aged fart riding an 800 lb BMW 1250 GS with hard-core dirt knobby tires in rush-hour traffic. That never stops being funny.

im live on long dirt road... so i 80 /20 .. pavement side for speed on weak bike... and 20 so i can make it home on the dirt! at times the sand is almost too deep. but i find the smoothest side and im ok.. 125s honda..

I choose my tire by listening to Ryan at Fortnine. He knows his stuff.

Thanks for the info! Now please redo this video in a Christopher Walken voice.

Good info, but take your riding jacket off while you’re indoors and presenting, it doesn’t add any cool factor

Thankyou

Trailmax are not 50/50. Very good at on-road and dirt/gravel. They are SO bad once any sort of wet dirt starts in, not to mention the beginning of "mud", that they need to be called no more than 30% off road / 70% on road. They will literally throw you off the machine if you hit mud. A 50/50 tire can't do that. A lot of my respected influencers (BigRockMoto being one) push these as 50/50. Must be Dunlop wants that "50/50" sweet spot to sell more tires, but be warned. off road, you cannot hit mud..at all. I'm not talking about 10 inch deep mud. Any mud at all. I loved them outside mud, but due to this, I would not ever buy again unless I literally lived near a desert. You can't always rely on knowing there is 0% chance of encountering mud.

The knobby tire has bigger outside circumstances, so i will adjust accordingly so it won't damage the mud guard

Excellent video! So for the 2023 Kawasaki 650 KLR Adventure, what would the BEST tire for 50/50 for front and back.

The life of the dirt focussed tyre will only suffer if you end up using it on a hard abraisive road, if used as intended with the vast majority of miles off the road, its life will probably be just fine

This might be a silly question, but would you consider putting a 90/100/21 tire on an adventure bike? If so, when would you consider it?

Anakee Adventure is too off-road tire 50-50, only 20%(0ffroad)-80%(asphalt) is Anakee 3. If tyre is little bit knobby than that tyre not good on asphalt!

get info thank u so much .

Can I bring my honda twenty twenty three x r one fifty l to the ride

On an ADV bike I like Shinko 705s. My DRZ will always have at least a TKC80 on it

What are you thoughts on Motoz Adventure as opposed to Rallz?

This was a great episode. Thank you for that.
I would consider also, for the longevity the region one is in. I may be wrong in the USA but please enlighten me. I am Swedish but now in North Carolina.
So, in Sweden and Scandinavia we have another mix of tires than if we would buy the same tire in Greece or Italy. Ours is softer to handle both our summers and winters. If you run our tires for a longer period in the summer in Greece it will wear out prematurely, and if you buy tires in Greece and take your car to Sweden and run on those in the winter they will be rock hard like hard plastic.
Is it the same in USA that tires from lets say Wisconsin or Minnesota market is softer than tires for the market in Georgia or Florida?

Thanks Ian, you are the best!

Thanks Kyle.

I just ordered the Dunlop 50/50 trailmax mission!

Hey great up the great video’s !

Got a question for you , I have tiger 850sport on 19”
Front alloy wheels . Is it good enough for some gravel roads/forest road , fire road ? Are the alloy rim tough enough . My budget could not stretch for the rally pro. Let me from your vaste experience!

What specific Adventure tires can go 10K-20K miles?

Dunlop trail max mission tires were the absolute most difficult tire I have ever worked with as far as mounting is concerned.

Dunlop 909.

I wish we had more offroad riding opportunities in Germany. But alas, everything that's even remotely fun is frowned upon and the future doesn't look good at all

Dude, three minutes of gratitude before ever getting to the video content. Already tuned out. Mix that stuff up in the video.

I have a 2019 Multistrada 1260s that is currently running road tires but I’m interested in getting the next set that can last on gravel roads 20% of the time amd highway (60-80 mph) the other 80%

Any suggestions?

I'm always cornering pretty hard slamming on my brakes my tires seemed to go pretty quick on my little cb500X I'm going to get the shrinko 705 next they seem to have good reviews + cheap

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You can ride a knobby tire on the street without much drawback because there’s still plenty of grip on asphalt. But taking a street oriented tire off-road is a nightmare.

What tyres do you guys recommend for an 2016 Africa Twin strictly for asphalt?

Been using nothing but Motoz since 2020 and have no complaints. They get stupid good life too.

I think the proper term for the “voids” is sipes👍