This is it. The day in April mountain bikers wait for all year. A day of celebration, a day of smoking… tires? That’s right, it’s International 429 Day. A day that celebrates the fun nature of the Pivot Mach 429 Trail. To honor the occasion, Brice Shirbach loads up and heads to the woods in Pennsylvania with his Pivot-Reynolds Enduro team ride, and tries to share the stoke.
While Brice was blasting through the woods on average size Maxxis rubber, Jesse Melamed puts the Rekon+ and Ikon+ to the test on the North Shore, next…
From Maxxis:
Plus-sized tires aren’t just for new riders looking for a little more control; savvy experts are using these new, larger mountain biking tires to push themselves to the absolute limit on a new breed of long-travel trail bikes optimized around the new plus bike tire standard. EWS rider Jesse Melamed demonstrates that very point by trying to find the limit of the new Maxxis 27.5×2.80 Rekon+ and Ikon+ tires on some classic technical North Shore single-track.
Riding Rocky Mountain’s new Pipeline bike, Melamed puts Maxxis’ new Ikon+ and Rekon+ tires through their paces. Both tires let him glide comfortably and speedily over chunky trail obstacles and offer increased traction and performance in order to go harder and faster down familiar trails. According to Jesse, “These tires are so much fun! I can get myself into all kinds of stupid situations and come out alive and unscathed.”
Designed as a front and rear combo, the Rekon+ takes the lead as an aggressive trail tire with large enough knobs to push dirt around and find grip at the harder ground underneath. The Ikon+ pulls from our best-selling XC tire and offers familiar speed and ease of pedaling while retaining taller cornering knobs to keep up with the additional grip of the Rekon+.
Weights start at 715g for the 27.5×2.80 tires, using optional high-thread count 120 TPI construction in order to provide a high-volume casing – without the weight you would expect from such a large tire. In order to maintain our reputation for having the most reliable and best performing tires on the market, we’ve made these tires available with EXO protection and 3C triple rubber compounds. Both tires are also available for immediate purchase at Maxxis.com and will be available at your local bike shop in coming weeks.
Maxxis is confident that both the Ikon+ and the Rekon+ will be popular with plus-bike riders looking for more aggressive tires, who will soon have an even wider range of choices: Maxxis will introduce plus-sized versions of the Minion DHF, Minion DHR II and High Roller II by late summer. “We think these new plus tires have it all, with the comfort and grip that a new rider needs, and that an experienced rider can take advantage of to get a faster, more fun ride,” said Maxxis Marketing Specialist Bobby Brown. “We’re excited about what these new products can do.”
