Maxxis tires

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T-bone71

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Has anyone used Maxxis tires particularly the Creepy Crawler tires. How do they bite in the mud and rocks, I saw them in the latest 4-wheeler magazine. I have a dealer close to me where i can get a deal, But if there no good then it's no deal. Thanks
 
we've got several sets of the Creepy Crawlers in our club and some others we wheel with...

very impressed on the trail...definitely on the rocks...here's a shot of the sidewall grip:

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here are several of the rigs running them, just so you can see what they look like mounted:

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Greg
 
I've wheeled comp compound Creepy Crawlers with about $300 of tire softener in them.

They stuck like glue. ;)
 
Regular Creepy crawlers are very stiff. Our club member who runs them had to change to bead locks to be able to run low enough pressure to make them work. at any thing less than 9 psi they would roll of the bead on 8" wheels, and this on a light wrangler.
Now with bead locks he runs 2-4 psi to get then to flex.
They are a very tough tire, on par with an SX I would say.
 
A couple of the Built to Grind guys in AZ are running them, and after talking with them in TX, they seem to like them at around the same rating as Red label Krawlers.

They look kinda pricy?
 
I run the red rig in Bigwaylons picture. Our club is split mostly between Irocs and Creepy Crawlers and there is a rivalry because the tires perform very similarly on rocks. The creepy's have two advantages over the interco tires though: I can air my creepys down to 2 psi and the tread will flex around the terrain and because of the very stiff (and tough) sidewalls the tire keeps its height and I never loose a bead. I don't run beadlocks and have never popped a bead. I also keep more of my axle clearance due to not loosing tire height like the Interco's do.

In mud the Creepy's clean out very well and have a pretty deap tread block.

I picked my 37's up from K&M tire in Hickory for $230 a peice. K&M is a supplier so they may not sell to you on the street. Maxxis gave me there number and I ended up working out with them to pick the tires up from a buddies shop and just cut them a check at delivery.

There was also a request for input posted on pirate about a competition tread offered to the public. Hopefully they'll create them, but I dought it.
 
Rich said:
A couple of the Built to Grind guys in AZ are running them, and after talking with them in TX, they seem to like them at around the same rating as Red label Krawlers.
They look kinda pricy?
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I remember watching them when they first were being used at neuroc comps and at least here on the right coast, there's not much comparison to red labels thought they do sell them in comp compound.
Pretty much like an xterrain,trepador,krawler, yokohama, or any other tire of this type. Pretty good in the rocks, fill up with mud quickly, and are far better than tsl's on the road.

If you're wanting decent performance in the mud out of a maxxis tire, go with the buckshots.
Or a tsl.
 
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