Short video review by Mike Melton presenting a hands-on look at a new RT (all-terrain) tire. He describes sidewall styling, chunky tread, compares noise to the Nitto Ridge Grappler (saying the Nitto is quieter but costlier), notes an in-tread tread depth gauge and decent siping for wet traction, and performs a road-force balance reporting 29 pounds of force before reducing it. He ultimately recommends the tire as an inexpensive, well-balanced option.
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29 pounds of force.
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If you hadn't seen my video on this tire, better watch this one. This is that new test RT that we started taking on. The only reason we took this tire on because we see we hadn't had any issues with it yet. They balance out really well. So let's go over this tire. So it's got a really good looking sidewall, big, chunky tread. So it looks pretty good as far as noise level. It does have a little noise to it. Compared the noise level to the Nitto Ridge grappler. Nitto Ridge is definitely gonna be a quieter tire than this one, but you're not having to spend that money, so it's up to you. One thing I like about the tire, it does have a tread depth gauge on it inside the tread blocks right here. It's got a pretty good bit of siphon in there to be an RT tire. So it should give you a little bit better wet traction than most R tires. So now let's go ahead and balance this thing out. And, you know, before we balance it out, what we got to do, we got to take them damn stickers off. All right, we got all the weight off. Let's see what we're going to do with her. All right, we got her rolling. All right, rollers down. We ain't going to cut it. We ain't going to edit. We're going to see exactly how these things balance out with the road force. It's got a ounce weight here, ounce weight there. It's got 29 pounds of force. It says we can bring it down, so we will. So for an inexpensive tire, we recommend this tire.
