Look At What Showed Up Today...

[GrizzlyGuy]

...from Rocky Mountain ATV. I'll give you 4 guesses and the first 3 don't count.

[Ken]

BIGHORNS BABY....

Rip it up.

[EigerMike]

i remember the day mine showed up! did you see the bighorns on american chopers newest bike they made? thought the bike was kinda lame for what they wanted it for but money talks!

[Ken]

I did notice the Bighorns on the OCC chopper.

[hemingray]

WHAT is WRONG with us? Taking pictures of tires!!!

July 2007 - the UPS man cometh:

Rip them open:


GG - what did you get these for? I thought you were all Bighorned already?

[Kodiak]

what size did u go with this time??
and how many miles did you get out of the last set??

[GrizzlyGuy]

I went with the same size again (25"). I've had the current ones since Aug 2006 on my old Grizzly and moved them over to my new Grizzly. Not sure, but my best guess at mileage would be around 4000. They could have easily gone another couple thousand at least, but the tread sure wasn't like new and....

A few weeks back, Flyin Boy was up for 3 days of riding. On the first day we were going to ride in the Peavine area and we took a quick run up the Crystal Peak trail to get warmed up. Just as we came back down onto the nice road, and no more than 30 minutes into the ride... my left front tire goes flat (first ever flat on Bighorns). There was a small gash in the inside sidewall, apparently caused by a sharp rock. I plugged it and it seemed to be holding air OK. That was my first ever tire plugging job and since it was a cut in the sidewall I called Ken to see if he thought it was still rideable in rough stuff. He thought it was, so we rode 3 more days on it. It barely lost any air after those 3 days.

I was planning on getting new tires at the end of this year, so I went ahead and ordered 4 now instead of dealing with a worn tread/new tread mismatch by replacing just the bad one. I'll have warm fuzzies instead of worrying about my first ever plug job maybe failing on me.

[hemingray]

Totally agree on the sidewall gash - who needs to worry about that opening up further. Glad to know it was patchable - now that I have more bag room I have a compressor and Slime along, as well as a bunch of plugs.

[Ken]

Jack just ripped his sidewall opened....

We pulled over Saturday, used his tire irons to remove the tire, shoved a tube inside....put the tire back on....30 minutes later...Little Sluice we came.

[ontherks]

I like the grip of the bighorns on the rocks. But my next set of tires with be something diffrent. I have cuts all over in mine. And many plugs sticking out of them. I already have a set of 4 new ITP SS 108 rims sitting in the shed. They have all been warrantied out from cracks and being bent.

[BruteForce]

Jack just ripped his sidewall opened....

We pulled over Saturday, used his tire irons to remove the tire, shoved a tube inside....put the tire back on....30 minutes later...Little Sluice we came.

You carry a tube on you? Where'd you source it? Great idea.

[Mr. Green]

Now that I think about it was bighorns that lead me to this web site. I was researching tires and was leaning twords big horns and was reading any thing I could find about them and that search brought me here.

[Ken]

Jack just ripped his sidewall opened....

We pulled over Saturday, used his tire irons to remove the tire, shoved a tube inside....put the tire back on....30 minutes later...Little Sluice we came.

You carry a tube on you? Where'd you source it? Great idea.

Tubes are great. I think we've used one 3 times in 7-8 years. Having the tools to take off the tire, make it a whole lot easier.

I'll ask Jack where he gets them.

[GrizzlyGuy]

I did my first ride with the new set of Bighorns on Sunday. Mostly fast riding on smooth roads as I was chasing dirt bikers on our way to Meadow Lake and back. The handling was as smooth as silk. Here they are at the bottom of the trail going up to Jack's Spot:



I used an X-acto knife to trim all the rubber "whiskers" off before I took them to my local tire shop for mounting. I didn't want to chance another Whisker Leak Ordeal. I came home and set them to my preferred pressures (4.5 rear/5.0 front), waited 24 hours, then checked the pressures again. All four were still exactly where I set them, no slime required.

[montana.matt]

I love my Bighorns. I've had mine on for a little over a year now and they are showing hardly any wear (and we do considerable riding on asphalt, too). I air them down in the summer for trail riding and air them up in the winter for plowing snow and I just couldn't be happier. I've ridden in places where I was sure I'd come out with a flat (sharp shale, etc.) and they haven't let me down yet