Whenever you’re creating a brand new UTV tire, one which’s meant to carry as much as all of the pitfalls and perils drivers encounter out on the paths, you positively wish to engineer one thing that’ll maintain up. However whenever you wish to ensure that all of your engineering was well worth the value of admission, you wish to hand it over to somebody who treats their machines with careless abandon.
You wish to hand it over to “Surprise Boy” Travis Pastrana.
And that is precisely what Yokohama did with its brand-new Geolander MT side-by-side tires. They even hand-delivered the tires to Travis at Pastranaland the place, as you’d anticipate, Travis and Co. put the tires by the form of hell you possibly can solely discover at his house compound.
Did you anticipate the rest?
Now, when regular people and engineers take a look at new tires, they go to tracks or trails and put these tires by a prescribed sequence of very meticulous assessments. Climate-related assessments, deflection assessments, sturdiness assessments as in placing them on a long-term dyno to see what number of miles they will stand up to, that form of factor. However whenever you give a set of tires to Travis Pastrana, he does…different issues.
As you possibly can see within the video above, he comes out of the compound’s large storage wheelie-ing his race-spec Can-Am Maverick X3 and instantly goes right into a tire-smoking drift and donut. The tire’s are so grippy, nevertheless, they’re truly inflicting the Can-Am’s rear to hop. That is extremely spectacular since I can actually mild up my BFGs with the faintests of breaths on my X3’s throttle.
Then it is on to jumps. A number of. And jumps with turns. What’s this take a look at? Effectively, in keeping with Travis, it assessments sidewall stiffness and sturdiness, as should you can go from bounce to show multi functional fell swoop and never flip, that is a helluva tire. Whether or not that is an correct take a look at, I will allow you to all be the decide of that. I’ll say, I am with Travis, as you positively need a tire that’ll chew laborious sufficient to maintain you turning and never flip you over the aspect.
And there is extra assessments available, as a result of the tires aren’t lifeless. They’re nonetheless a-tickin. However I will not spoil the remainder of the video and I am greater than occupied with Yokohama’s new UTV tire. Hopefully, I can rating a set and put them to my very own assessments over the following few months. Hey, Yokohama, hit me up. Let’s examine how I like them in comparison with my BFGs.
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