Sedona's

[Shane_744]

Ran the sedona's today with Bigflex and Nova'sArk and the EastTexas crew. 15oz total up front with my delrin inner support ring and 6oz total out back. Stock foams. 1" wide Eritex's. 6.7lb rig.

Whatever type of rock this was the sedona's didn't like it. This was some rip-rap piles by the spillway they usually run on. The spillway was covered in water.
The tread does not have good lateral grip on this rock. They would slide to the left or right, wouldn't pull uphill sideways and wouldn't dig hard turns on a slant (just slide down the rock). I don't think it is foam setup on this rock type, the foams were more than soft enough to grab the rock. And the square profile gives you more contact area but that didn't seem to help on this rock type. So I think it was lug design and rubber compound.
You gotta use alot more wheel speed to get up the rocks. The tires are really steady with crazy wheel speed (as mentioned before in other threads). They don't bounce around. But the truck will and you can get loose and do some gate maintenance. So I don't know if I like having to get on the trigger to make them work. Might not be my style. Maybe just they don't do well on this rock type.

I ran them for the first two courses and did crappy. They wouldn't hold and that was throwing me off lines. Third course I switched back to my leopard setup (CI foams and front delrin support rings and same weight as above) and all was good, walking up and around anything I wanted. It was a 100% improvement running the leopards vs the sedona's on this rock.

OG rovers and the new EX rovers were working good on this rock type all day. Those were running CI foams too. About 42 deg and cloudy. Pictures by Robert.

[helhedded]

Have you tried them with CI foams yet? That may be the problem.

[SACCO]

I'm hearing these tires like a wider wheel. How wide are yours?

[Shane_744]

Originally Posted by helhedded

Have you tried them with CI foams yet? That may be the problem.

No. He was out of he 5.5". And the stock foams seem capable. More than soft enough make the tire work right.
It seems like the compound is "slick". Might be the newness.
They slide around on my test rocks at the house. Several rock types there.
And I still have to hammer down on the throttle more than normal to get them up rocks.
I could try channelling the rears for some more forward bite too. I will have several more comps to test them back to back with the Leopards.

Originally Posted by SACCO

I'm hearing these tires like a wider wheel. How wide are yours?

1" wide Eritex's make a good contact patch, imo. Check out the 4th picture on the right, at the rears. They are darn close to the normal tire "square" profile.