Tires Goodyear or Maxxis

Just came to this thread after ordering Goodyear Maxlife. I happened to look at Goodyear Assurance Maxlife on a whim and saw that they were priced lower than the Pirellis by about $7 per tire and was able to price match to Discount tire who had these in stock at one of the stores.

Run Wrangler SR-A on my JK in the summer. Takeoffs from Ram 1500s. Awesome highway tire. Not an offroad tire at all but they survive forest service roads.

I’m 84 kg, use Maxxis tires with an 2.5 Assegai EXO+ tire up front and a 2.4 DHR II DoubleDown casing in the rear. I ride and race reasonably hard/fast. I’m using 22/23, but when I have an EXO+ casing out back I have to up that a couple psi to keep from denting my rim.

Have these on the Tundra. It isn't an off-roader, but am on the 2nd set now. They lasted pretty well and were outstanding on wet roads and good on snow when I lived in the northeast

From my experience, goodyear offers the best rim protection, I got goodyear assymetric 6 225/45 r17, and the rim protection is big and also the sidewalls are stiff.

early I loved the AT2's I had on my F150 they did great in Mud, Snow and Ice.

I've had Goodyear EfficientGrip on my 1.8 Civic for 20k miles and 3 years. There is still about 5mm of tread on them too...

It’s safe to drive, but you should replace them for some quality tires.

I’m never buying Goodyear again was in a 6 hour trip and my Goodyear endurance tire did this.

Specialized control tyres and it’s not even close.

No it’s not worth the “premium” as they’re not more premium. The spesh tyres are specced on their £14000 bikes, they are also racing and winning world cups, cape epics, short track races, marathons for years with the rest of them. Spesh has led the way with a couple others with FEA and camps set up for surely testing their tyres with a refresh every few years. There is no “premium”. The stickers are fancier on the maxxis. But they’re heavier. Higher rolling resistance. Higher weight. No noticeable gain in traction to account for those either. Spesh offers sworks 120 tpi, softer and harder (T7 and T5 respectively) control tyres. All you’re choosing is 120 vs 60 tpi determining a less or more robust carcass.

A life long sworks 120 tpi snob. I went maxxis aspen and hated life. That’s a gravel tyre. Tore through the Vittoria barzo. Went ikon and they’re a great once was a race tyre now a recreational tyre— but been left for dead with rolling resistance, grip and weight by the competition. Rekon race won’t get a look in from the tyre tests and price and weight. Nah ta.