Crappy Michelin Comp24.1????

I recieved my Comp24.1 from Cambria bike today....I wouldn't say I'm exremely Impressed. Nothing having to do with Cambria, but the tire itself. They were put in a big box like any other shipping company would, so don't think this is Cambrias fault....

They're supposed to have SUPER TOUGH STIFF sidewalls right? Well, compared to the Intense, they're REALLY flimsy. I can squeeze the tread down to both wires with one hand pretty easily, about the same difficulty as my Kenda Kinetic 2.1s...... I can't do that with ONE sidewall of the Intense.....

Also, my labeling on my tire kinda sucks. There's only labeling on ONE SIDE with Michelin in white paint (or whatever it is) opposite eachother and the other side just has Michelin in raised rubber. The wire beads aren't exactly perfectly round either, they farther at some points than others, by an inch or so. Like one spot they're almost touching, on another spot they're 3 inches apart, LOL.

LOL, don't get me started on the WildGripper 2.1 S. That thing has folded sidewals, like a bikes weight has been on it for awhile. Bulged out and FOLDED OVER like a roll of fat on a beer gut. The wire bead is wavy and the white letters are again, only on one side?

All of that is prolly all trivial, and has NO EFFECT once tubed/mounted and filled with air, but it sure as hell LOOKS sketchy not mounted/filled. I was expecting an UBER STIFF sidewall from the way you guys said the sidewall gives nice rebound/NEVER pinchflats. My crappy Kenda Kinetics even came in better condition new than that front Miche did...jeez, looks like melted plastic for sidewalls, LOL. But I dunno, my Intense came perfectly "true" and everything.....maybe it's just quality standards? I dunno, is everybody elses like this when they get it?

I can might snag a pic and post it later....if anybody is intrested.

**edit**The beads are wavy as in, when you look at a car tire, it's equadistant all the way around, but this bike tire, the beads are close at points, and FAR on others, don't think that I meant shaped wavy as in an "S" shape...

 

:rofl: Like I said. It looked to be all trivial....I don't REALLY care too much, as I'de prolly see the light once it was on my bike....but I thought maybe I got the rejects cause of the fat roll sidewall on the front tire, LOL.

But the sidewall stuff really erks me on that rear. It's pretty flimsy, almost like a regular sidewall. Which is how I wonder how the hell you guys never got pinchflats......smoothness? It does have a nice SQUARE profile though...I like.... :bigthumb:

My bike gets here on Friday gauranteed (lol, got shipped 2-day today) so I'll do a comparo then on both grip and feel. Can't quite do much more than rear wheel stall, but that should give me some sort of inkling of grip on a ledge.....

I seem to have a SQUARE intense DH 2.35. My others weren't as square....so it should be intresting....The knobs on it aren't HUGE SQUARE CHUNKS either..I'm thinking I got a NOS tire cause the graphics on the sidewalls don't look as modern as all my other ones....

 

Who's to say I don't already ride smooth? How do you know I don't already know some basics from my freeriding bike? Or that I can possibly RIP in freeriding, but wanna transfer over to trials? That's exactly the point, LOL, you DON'T. There's that guy Dalton on here that rode BMX for 4 years and knows how to already pedal kick, etc just from BMXing. Just because somebody's new at trials specifically doesn't mean they don't already know how to pull some lines, or that they ride like an ape and just thrash everything....

You don't think I would have done all this without decent research? That's the reason I ask questions about TRIALS, so I can prolly help somebody else out later. If somebody needed freeride help, I'm sure I could lend a hand, or even motorcycle racing....granted that's not pertaining to this forum, but I'm pretty sure you were a n00b in another forum.....

Jeezz....sorry for asking questions and learning an additional sport....