Tyres for Morocco

SpikeHammer · Apr 20, 2008

I'm off to Morocco for a week of off-roading on my FE450s.

The terrain will be piste type rods for the liason type sections and then a cross between sandy and rocky technical sections.

The question is, what tyres?

I run Mitas (Trelleborg) CO-2 and EF-06 on the Berg's at the moment. One part of me says stick with these another says go for something more focused.

Thoughts guys?

Enginehardware · Apr 20, 2008

SpikeHammer said:
I'm off to Morocco for a week of off-roading on my FE450s.

The terrain will be piste type rods for the liason type sections and then a cross between sandy and rocky technical sections.

The question is, what tyres?

I run Mitas (Trelleborg) CO-2 and EF-06 on the Berg's at the moment. One part of me says stick with these another says go for something more focused.

Thoughts guys?

Hi
When we was in morocco, most riders used michelin desert.
Depending on what terrain you will ride in, but with as little as 0.3bar in the rear tire it will work in the sand, what ever type, In the Atlas mountins the wear was high.
My experience when i had my 1995 600cc Husaberg with me in the Libyan desert, a harder tire last much longer, and we didnt ride as it was a motocross race, so the grip was OK.
If i would go again i would use the Maxxis IT 120 wide, last long and a desent grip.
We use them since 3 years at My Adventure, and its a good allround tire.
//Thomas

SpikeHammer · Apr 20, 2008

RE: Re: Tyres for Morocco

Thanks Thomas, the Maxxis Desert is on my list as well. I will be running mousses so the tyre pressue will be about 0.8Bar.

Cheesehead · Apr 21, 2008

Hi SpikeHammer,

First of all; I hope you have the same amount of fun I always have!!!
My experience is that the Michelin Deserts (not the Baja's) are really good rally tires which will last a week (2500 / 3000 km's) minimum. The rally bib mouses are specially designed for this tire so they can also coop with high speeds. A good and much cheaper alternative is the Maxxis IT desert. I used these tire's with 4 mm thick inner tubes and that worked good but don't forget to inflate (1.2 bar) the tires when hitting the rocky stuff! And Morocco has a lot of rocky stuff....

Hope this helps you!

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