I did set them up tubeless before my ride today and while they did seem to feel better, I was showing a new rider a local trail system (and it was his first singletrack ride). So needless to say there were no sending jumps or smashing berms, we were going at a snail's pace lol. But he had a great ride. I haven't pulled them off yet, so I give them a few more proper rides.interesting that we are getting polar opposite results. I'm running tubeless, but hard to say how much difference this will make. I've been running 24/24 PSI - frt/rear. I've run Maxxis for years and the Butchers seem to grab better, but I've only run Maxxis on analog bikes.
For the data bits: Rowdy riding style, I'm 275 lbs and run normally 23F/26R but had 24F/28R in these when I had the tubes in since I was worried about pinch flats, not a huge difference.
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