I'm going to be a negative nancy and harp on the paralysis part - it's driven by absolutely asinine marketing. I've been running Pirellis on my gravel bike all year with great results, which has me eyeing their MTB line. A few tread patterns, casings, compounds, a couple widths for most, and I'm just looking for 29ers. The marketing speak is impenetrable and useless.
Conti just got product of the year. On another website... So I go check them out, because as much as I've been a Maxxis guy for a decade plus, it's fun to try new things. A few treads, compounds, casings, widths AND some legacy product with entirely different language/nomenclature thrown in and a functionally useless 'periodic table's of tires... All marketing garbage.
Maxxis isn't much better, but I'm at least used to it, and I do think their literature is published at a higher standard of telling you what a 3CMG EXO+ tire actually is, and they have a PDF of their full offering you can peruse and make relatively easy comparisons between their massive, massive tire offering.
Consumers, shops, are confused, needlessly. It's unsustainable and stupid.
Dec. 28, 2022, 8:33 p.m. - Glenn Bergevin
I'm going to be a negative nancy and harp on the paralysis part - it's driven by absolutely asinine marketing. I've been running Pirellis on my gravel bike all year with great results, which has me eyeing their MTB line. A few tread patterns, casings, compounds, a couple widths for most, and I'm just looking for 29ers. The marketing speak is impenetrable and useless. Conti just got product of the year. On another website... So I go check them out, because as much as I've been a Maxxis guy for a decade plus, it's fun to try new things. A few treads, compounds, casings, widths AND some legacy product with entirely different language/nomenclature thrown in and a functionally useless 'periodic table's of tires... All marketing garbage. Maxxis isn't much better, but I'm at least used to it, and I do think their literature is published at a higher standard of telling you what a 3CMG EXO+ tire actually is, and they have a PDF of their full offering you can peruse and make relatively easy comparisons between their massive, massive tire offering. Consumers, shops, are confused, needlessly. It's unsustainable and stupid.