Advantages: Great price & fair all rounder Disadvantages: Tyres are poor in mud!
...are great on hard pack surfaces but if you ride in mud, your going to come off, buy decent tyres if going off road in mud!!
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Frame: Heat treated alloy formed ATB design with replaceable derailleur hanger
Forks: SR/Suntour XCM DA 100mm travel with 30mm steel stanchions alloy legs and preload and hydraulic damping adjustment
Gears: Shimano FD-C050 front and Shimano RD-M340 Acera 8 speed rear derailleurs
Shifters: Shimano EF-50 triggers
Chainset: SR/Suntour XCC-150 42/32/22 tooth gearing
Brakes: Radius mechanical discs with 160mm rotors
Wheels: Alex PC19 32 hole double wall alloy rims built on Joy Tech disc compatible alloy cassette hubs
Tyres: Kenda Komodo 26x1.95
Handlebar: Mongoose 31.8mm clamp diameter alloy 30mm rise
Stem: Mongoose alloy threadless
Saddle: WTB Speed V Sport with Mongoose logo
Seatpost: Alloy with micro...
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Advantages: Light weight, durable well made tyres Disadvantages: A little pricey
..., and the tread pattern is very similar to the Comp 24. They have Michelin's Silica Compound which helps decrease rolling resistance, and also have a 127 Tpi (threads per inch) cord casing that is found on all other Michelin top of the range tyres.
Even though these are sized at 26 x 2.2 (52 x 559), they are a smaller in width than the 2.2 size you would find on the Michelin DH tyres (54 x 559). The size of these is more comparable to a set of Maxxis 2.1 XC tyres.
Installation was pretty straight forward, with the only serious effort needed when mounting the tyre to my rims, as like other Michelin tyres, the beading can be a tight fit when put on for the first time.
My first impressions on using them were that they felt incredibly grippy. They are stable when cornering hard, and braking heavily. If you choose to use the directional tread pattern...
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The 105mm focal length of this lens means that this lens serves both for telephoto and macro purposes - it deals with both of these well. For macro the lens is able to take pin-sharp photos from as little as around 15cm away, and the low aperture means... more
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