Mike Melton reviews the Ridgeblade XRT tire from Tesh, an affordable option with a smooth ride and balanced feel. The tread has stone ejectors and a stepped depth indicator. Balance and road-force tests show low weights and minimal road force.
Ridgeblade XRT by Tesh.
Two and a half ounces on one side and one and a half ounces on the other.
24 pounds of force.
Mike Melton.
October 2025.
All right, for all the cheaper people out there trying to save you some money, you might want to look at this tire. This one tire. A lot of people hadn't seen these things yet. This right here is the Ridgeblade XRT by Tesh. We've been testing these things that actually ride pretty good. They balance out pretty good. Now, as far as road noise, they are a little noisy, but you expect that out of an RT tire. But now, as far as like nitto toyo, stuff like that, if you get an RT tire through them, they're actually a lot quieter than these things. All right, if you want to see what that sidewall looks like. There you go. Now, it ain't a bad looking tire on that sidewall. Now for the tread pattern, it's a good looking tire too. So if you a lot of bunch of rocks, gravel, stuff like that, it's got a ton of stone ejectors in there. One thing I like about this one, it's got that stair stepper tire tread depth gauge for you. Now let's go ahead and balance these damn things out and see how these things do. I removed all them wheel weights. Now we're gonna get all that stuff off of there too. Before we bounce these things, you know, we gotta take that damn sticker off. All right, here's the test. We got it rolling. Rollers on, roll about to come off. Let's see where she's at. No edits, no cuts on it, brother. Two and a half ounces here, ounce and a half here, 24 pounds of force, so it definitely passes our test. Low, low weight, low road force. Good to go.
