DT ROR Wednesday 5-15-19
Fins N Things / Ice Cream / DT Raffle
Wednesday Trail Ride Fins-N Things
Today’s ride is on a trail called Fins-N-Things. This is one of the more popular trail because of the outstanding views of the snow topped LaSalle mountains in the background to the east of this beautiful coral colored trail that has many dinosaur type of fins to ride up and down. Some of the climbs and descents will definitely get your full attention.
Today we are in Eric's custom Polaris General 4 1000 testing out the brand new to the market Milestar Patagonia SXT 30x10R-14 tires mounted on also new to the market Raceline Trophy wheels. What a great looking tire/wheel package.
Getting to the trail head our group is escorted by the local Moab Police department from the Arena along the highway through town to Hells Revenge where they let us continue on our own. The Milestar SXT tires are quiet and smooth on the road. As we hit the trail the first part is sandy mixed with quite rocky terrain. The tires tracked great as we hit some of the high banked berms and were very tough as Eric pounded them in the rocks. Shortly up the trail the slick rock climbs started where the tires had very solid traction. Eric put them through their paces as he was pushing them on steep climbs and descents. The traction seemed just right as the tires would bark on some of the steep climbs and launch to the tom. To me I like it when I can hear a tire slightly talk to you are the occasionally slip to let you know where their traction limits are. It's good on slick rock to have traction but is your tires don't slip some you can have too muck traction and break axles or other parts. There wasn't one time during the trail where the tires let us down even though Eric did his best to hit every rock along the trail.
We had one rider along this trail that broke 2 axles on one of the climbs and another rider that broke the rear sway bar bracket in half. Even though this is not a particularity tough trail there are many good places to test the limits of your machine and tires/wheels if you are so inclined.
Look for a full review in the near future.
Later on Wednesday it was time for the Discount Tire Ice Cream Social and Raffle. This is always a fan favorite as we always throw out tons of free swag into the crowd in between items that are raffled. One unique thing about this raffle is you get to choose if you want to put your ticket in for each item.
The Discount Tire Ice cream as the crowd shuffled into the arena getting excited about all the cool items up on the sage. It was a blast watching all the little kids that kept coming up to the cooler and grabbing another one of their favorite ice creams. I loved seeing their faces as they had one after the other.
As the Raffle got into full swing with our favorite announcer, Eric kept the crowd on their feet with swag between items.
In the end the list of items was pretty impressive, here is most of the items:
BFG T/A KM3 33x10R- 15 tires
Method Tensor Regulator New 33x10R-15
Milestar Patagonia SXT 32-10R-15
Goodyear light truck or car tires
Assult mirrors and cooler
Dynojet Programmers
Rigid Lightbar
Misc Discount Tire swag, cooler and backpack packed full of Nascar goodies.
In the end almost everyone ended up with some items plus they had a fun filled night as the Discount Tire team entertained them. One unique thing happened at the end of the night. The guy that won the set of BFG tires has to tie them to the top of his Yamaha YXZ. That is unique enough but to top it off he won a set of tires 2 years ago and had to tie them to the top of his Yamaha the same way.
In the end the Discount Tire Raffle was a huge success and we had the opportunity to make some new friends.
Tomorrow we will be making breakfast for all drivers and participants before the trail ride. After everyone gets their fill the trail rides will be in full swing. Eric and I will be hitting Moab Rim trail testing tires/wheels and helping anyone that needs it.
Stay tuned for more action and remember to buy all your tires and wheels from Discount Tire.
Read MoreWednesday Trail Ride Fins-N Things
Today’s ride is on a trail called Fins-N-Things. This is one of the more popular trail because of the outstanding views of the snow topped LaSalle mountains in the background to the east of this beautiful coral colored trail that has many dinosaur type of fins to ride up and down. Some of the climbs and descents will definitely get your full attention.
Today we are in Eric's custom Polaris General 4 1000 testing out the brand new to the market Milestar Patagonia SXT 30x10R-14 tires mounted on also new to the market Raceline Trophy wheels. What a great looking tire/wheel package.
Getting to the trail head our group is escorted by the local Moab Police department from the Arena along the highway through town to Hells Revenge where they let us continue on our own. The Milestar SXT tires are quiet and smooth on the road. As we hit the trail the first part is sandy mixed with quite rocky terrain. The tires tracked great as we hit some of the high banked berms and were very tough as Eric pounded them in the rocks. Shortly up the trail the slick rock climbs started where the tires had very solid traction. Eric put them through their paces as he was pushing them on steep climbs and descents. The traction seemed just right as the tires would bark on some of the steep climbs and launch to the tom. To me I like it when I can hear a tire slightly talk to you are the occasionally slip to let you know where their traction limits are. It's good on slick rock to have traction but is your tires don't slip some you can have too muck traction and break axles or other parts. There wasn't one time during the trail where the tires let us down even though Eric did his best to hit every rock along the trail.
We had one rider along this trail that broke 2 axles on one of the climbs and another rider that broke the rear sway bar bracket in half. Even though this is not a particularity tough trail there are many good places to test the limits of your machine and tires/wheels if you are so inclined.
Look for a full review in the near future.
Later on Wednesday it was time for the Discount Tire Ice Cream Social and Raffle. This is always a fan favorite as we always throw out tons of free swag into the crowd in between items that are raffled. One unique thing about this raffle is you get to choose if you want to put your ticket in for each item.
The Discount Tire Ice cream as the crowd shuffled into the arena getting excited about all the cool items up on the sage. It was a blast watching all the little kids that kept coming up to the cooler and grabbing another one of their favorite ice creams. I loved seeing their faces as they had one after the other.
As the Raffle got into full swing with our favorite announcer, Eric kept the crowd on their feet with swag between items.
In the end the list of items was pretty impressive, here is most of the items:
BFG T/A KM3 33x10R- 15 tires
Method Tensor Regulator New 33x10R-15
Milestar Patagonia SXT 32-10R-15
Goodyear light truck or car tires
Assult mirrors and cooler
Dynojet Programmers
Rigid Lightbar
Misc Discount Tire swag, cooler and backpack packed full of Nascar goodies.
In the end almost everyone ended up with some items plus they had a fun filled night as the Discount Tire team entertained them. One unique thing happened at the end of the night. The guy that won the set of BFG tires has to tie them to the top of his Yamaha YXZ. That is unique enough but to top it off he won a set of tires 2 years ago and had to tie them to the top of his Yamaha the same way.
In the end the Discount Tire Raffle was a huge success and we had the opportunity to make some new friends.
Tomorrow we will be making breakfast for all drivers and participants before the trail ride. After everyone gets their fill the trail rides will be in full swing. Eric and I will be hitting Moab Rim trail testing tires/wheels and helping anyone that needs it.
Stay tuned for more action and remember to buy all your tires and wheels from Discount Tire.
