Tires... Help me choose: Maxxis Creepys -or- Iroks

HELP: Maxxis Creepy's or Iroks????

  • 37x12.5x15 Maxxis Creepy Crawlers

    Votes: 20 57.1%

  • 36x13.5x15 Super Swamper Iroks

    Votes: 15 42.9%
  • Total voters
    35
  • Poll closed .
uncc civilengineer

uncc civilengineer

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OK here's what Im looking at:

1. Maxxis Creepy's M8090's (not Comp. Compound) 37x12.5x15
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2. Super Swamper Iroks 36x13.5x15
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Both are Bias tires.. and about the same size.. Im currently running Iroks and they do well for me. I'm really considering going to the Maxxis Creepy's unless someone talks me out of it. I dont see much pavement anymore.

Tell me your feelings and I'd like to hear from those running the NON-Comp Creepy's.

Thanks,
Chris
 
I followed Ronnie Shoope-who has the 37" CC's- around Harlan for a few days of wheeling and I thought those did well. From what I noticed they had to be ran at a LOW air pressure to get any flex out of them but I'm sure they would soften up with more trail time. For the type of wheeling we do here I would take the CC's, the lugs are pure beef.
I don't like IROKS.
 
GONOVRIT said:
I followed Ronnie Shoope-who has the 37" CC's- around Harlan for a few days of wheeling and I thought those did well. From what I noticed they had to be ran at a LOW air pressure to get any flex out of them but I'm sure they would soften up with more trail time. For the type of wheeling we do here I would take the CC's, the lugs are pure beef.
I don't like IROKS.
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Plus the CC's just look bad ass:driver:
 
The 15" IROK's are rather ballooney, though I haven't seen the 15" CC's, so I can't say if they are or not.

Can you get a "road hazard" warranty on the CC's?
 
Hate to hi-jack but I'm wondering what the difference in bounciness is between a 37x14x15 and a 42x14x17 Irok is:popcorn::flipoff2:
 
Well, I have been running 37x14.5x15 CC's for about three seasons, Due to Jeep breakage about six or seven trips. These tires saw about 500 or so street miles over that period. They are just getting broken in. I run NO air in them w/out beed locks and have yet to loose one, I probably will now that I said that. Even now if I put 10 psi in them they will not flex. Upside is you don't have to worry about loosing air in them. I have not run Iroks but I hated these tires until this season but I had invested too much $$ to get rid of them. Now that they have broken in, finally, I like maybe even love them now.
When I find them pics to follow.
 
Rox&Mud said:
Well, I have been running 37x14.5x15 CC's for about three seasons, Due to Jeep breakage about six or seven trips. These tires saw about 500 or so street miles over that period. They are just getting broken in. I run NO air in them w/out beed locks and have yet to loose one, I probably will now that I said that. Even now if I put 10 psi in them they will not flex. Upside is you don't have to worry about loosing air in them. I have not run Iroks but I hated these tires until this season but I had invested too much $$ to get rid of them. Now that they have broken in, finally, I like maybe even love them now.
When I find them pics to follow.
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Thanks for the input... pics please if you have them. I also wonder if the 37x12.5's would flex more than the 37x14.5's? I would think they would but again I'm not sure. Maybe i'm backwards...

But you're basically saying you run them at 0psi and they still dont flex? is that the general thoughts of others running them?
 
i ran 39.5's on 15x8's and i now have 42's on 15x10's... bad freakin ass. they work better than avarage anywhere we go. wet or dry.
 
not a personal fan of IROKS, but they worked great on my toy because they were so soft, and my rig was so light and yes... bouncy sort of, but on a single cab, short bed mini, with a 4 banger they were about the best flex i had been able to get out of a bias tire, but since they are goin on your xj, i can see what they say about the bouncy bouncy:bounce2: part... the cc's look so much more badass too:beer:
 
GONOVRIT said:
Hate to hi-jack but I'm wondering what the difference in bounciness is between a 37x14x15 and a 42x14x17 Irok is:popcorn::flipoff2:
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I don't know what you're talking about, but the 36x15 IROK looks like a balloon. the 17's are much more squared off.
 
I watched some CC at a Gulches compatition and they rock. I don't know if they were compations or not. I'm reading alot of complants about Irock. Yea they ballon and bounce but they work in our local conditions. Try the CC and let us know. I'm running 42SX cut for the whole longivity thing as you know they like to spin when cold.
 
Rich said:
I don't know what you're talking about, but the 36x15 IROK looks like a balloon. the 17's are much more squared off.
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I agree, they look different but act the same from what I've seen. Hit any trail with some snot on it and you'll notice the tire kinda "float" over its contact patch, just doesn't seem to dig. Just raisin a little hell man, there's not or never will be a perfect tire. To each his own.
 
Rubicoon said:
I'm running 42SX cut for the whole longivity thing as you know they like to spin when cold.
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I'd like to see those..

At least on the 17" CC's, the biggest thing I saw was them burping inner beads like a Krawler..
 
sheepaleep said:
not that it matters to many, but which would last better as a dd/wheel warrior?
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well ti say that the CC's would work better for dual purpose, of the 2... the iroks wear extremely fast on the road
 
I ran a set of 37x14.5 x 15 CC's for a couple of years, back when you had to call Maxxis to find somebody to sell them to you. They were the M8090's. I ran them on a set of street locks (thought I'd drive on the road but wanted a wheel I could not bend) and could run them at 0psi and never popped a bead or cut a sidewall.
They do flex some, but not much, however, in my opinion you don't need the creepy's to flex much. The tread is very flat accross with a very deep tread void and some very nice sidewall lugs. So you've got a tire that'll grab alot of ground. They also get sticky pretty easy and the tread blocks themselves flex very well.
I followed biggassredjeep through lower 2 one time and I think the creepy's performed as well as the red label Krawlers he was running. They don't get quite as sticky as the Krawlers, but you won't wear the tread down on em like you will with a set of Iroks. Many 4 wheel burnouts, 2 years, and little road miledge later I really lost about 5% of the tread depth. Only think I noticed was going from Crawfords to Trail 1 at Tellico at about 60mph on the turns I did heat up the very edges of the lugs enough to melt them :huggy: but that didn't effect the tread depth....probably just broke em in a little.
The new rig is going to be on rockwells and if I thought a 40" would be big enough I'd be all over a set of comp compound Creepy's, but I think I'm gonna get stuck with a big set of interco's :shaking:
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uncc civilengineer said:
Thanks for the input... pics please if you have them. I also wonder if the 37x12.5's would flex more than the 37x14.5's? I would think they would but again I'm not sure. Maybe i'm backwards...
But you're basically saying you run them at 0psi and they still dont flex? is that the general thoughts of others running them?
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Actually after finally breaking them in they flex quite well at 0 psi on a wrangler. The 12.50's should flex better I would think. I can't seem to get the pics thing to work so I will email them to ya. Feel free to post them to the thread.
 
Rox&Mud said:
Actually after finally breaking them in they flex quite well at 0 psi on a wrangler. The 12.50's should flex better I would think. I can't seem to get the pics thing to work so I will email them to ya. Feel free to post them to the thread.
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I'll post your pictures when I get in from work this evening...

Chris
 
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