Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to take a closer look at the Maxxis Ikon tires,
and what you see here is 29er 2.2 on this one,
This one doesn't say it but this is a 29er 2.35.
As you see from the description here
and they both say the same, these are for hard pack, lose over hard, medium, loose,
and both of these are made with triple compound,
that's what the 3C is about,
EXO is in reinforced sidewalls here
and this one says tubeless ready, the 2.2.
2.35s don't say tubeless ready but if you look at the weight stated by Maxxis
it is like 15 grams difference, I don't think there's a much difference
between the two.
is ready version of this and this one that doesn't have the
T on comparing the two right off the bat what you can see here and if you look at
the thread one it's a lot wider than the other 150 1.5 millimeters with and this
one knob to knob again above sixty point five about nine millimeters wider on the
235 they did space out the knobs a bit more but not only that they spaced it
out they're also bigger the knobs are bigger
and our taller knobs think about it as being about the millimeter a millimeter
and a half bigger like wider and taller knobs pretty much everywhere most
pronounced are these cornering amps here on the 235 compared to what you have on
the 2.2 on the scale you can see this the two point two here comes up to 643
grams the spec says 640 so that's very close spray impressive seven to 35 comes
up to 705 as you can see here Max's specs call for 725 so a bit lighter
then suggested by Maxis I'm going to install these on a set of sent ATL 28
rims which are 23 millimeters inside as you can see it here is 23 42 and they
are about 20 millimeters so if I remember 18.8 here they are installed
what you see is the 2.2 on the left to 35 on the right graphics on it you see
on the left on the drive side you have the Maxis logo as well as the
description of the tire on the other side you see on the right it's just a
Maxis logo in yellow one thing that I want to mention here is that I really
struggle to install these with no tubes so right now items in them inflated to
about 30 psi these are directional tires you can see this V shape of the thread
on both obviously the bigger one here to 235 and this one is the 2.2 so this is
the 2.2 measuring the casing here this is a two point one five or one six you
can see how the thread is actually narrower than the casing measuring the
knobs here's just the casing this is about 69 millimeters 71.5 so about two
and a half millimeters tall knobs that is the center knobs that I measured the
other ones are a bit taller what you would expect is about see if I can get
this about three millimeters a little bit taller side knobs on this one
you know just 235 measured the casing is a 225
I'm to go on the side knobs this is a true 2.3 71 v is the casing and if you
remember that was pretty much the height with
knobs on the 2.2 with the knobs 74 and a bit so about same height of the center
knobs however the side knobs on this one definitely taller or they seem to be
taller the side knobs measure about four thirty five millimeters you can see here
how your side knobs perturb out of the casing so they're wider than the casing
itself fairly obvious in this view here or if you look at the far side right
there you can see the side knobs sticking out and compared to that one
you can see here have the side knobs of the 2.2 don't stick out at all the
casing actually sticks out out further than the side knobs okay so here's the
deal what you see is my rear tire so I
decided to install 235 front and back I didn't like the way the casing was
exposed on a 2.2 and 450 grams weight penalty I'll take this to 35 any day you
can see nice big volume tires rolling resistance from a tiny bit of writing
that I did around here it seems to be decreased like just like I expected it
and I'm looking forward to next year to write these for my cross-country type of
races I hope you guys found found these details informative here any questions
let me know below and I'll see you next time