Narrowed mashers

[Dickie691986]

I was just fooling around one day and wanted to learn how to narrow tires so I tried and narrowed my mashers and this is what I came up with:













let me know what you think

[bigblazerboy]

wanna do mine? looks cool im getting some mashers and might try to narrow the stock wk tires for pratice.

[Dickie691986]

Originally Posted by bigblazerboy

wanna do mine? looks cool im getting some mashers and might try to narrow the stock wk tires for pratice.

these are the first set iv ever done. and i never took the time to practice. and I thought it would be alot harder than it was. I still have 2 more to go. I was thinking about selling these after their all done and iv tried them out, but im not sure yet. if i do sell them ill post them in the for sale section on here.

[Desolas]

I did the same thing a few weeks ago. They work okay, great when it's wet out and they are too narrow...they pick through tight rocks real well but a little wider tire works better generally.

[pantablo]

why did both of you line up the tread blocks when you narrowed them? the originals have their treadblocks offset 1/2 a treadblock.

[Desolas]

Because it looked cooler. No other reason really....I did think having a full step ladder going across might work better but basically it came down to how it looked.

I also siped mine.

[Dickie691986]

Originally Posted by Desolas

Because it looked cooler. No other reason really....I did think having a full step ladder going across might work better but basically it came down to how it looked.

I also siped mine.

not to mention it was easier to glue this way.

[insanerc]

Hey guys, the narrowing jobs look good by both of you. The only thing I might want to bring up here is that by lining up the treads as you have the lateral traction will suffer some. Depending on what that terrain is where you crawl it could be a lot or very little.

David

[Desolas]

David, you're absolutely correct. These tires do not have as much side bite as other tires. I don't think they have much less than the unmodified masher though. It's not horrible though since the cut lug and also siping the tire gives it a lot of extra grip.

They do have a ton of forward bite, especially on wet rock. They work really well here in Washington with the sandy river rock and glacier till that we have here. Once it's dried up though it's time to switch to something else. Just where I go to crawl you have to be worried about the tires loading up with sand and debris. Run something like the Rock Claws and they are loaded up and useless within 2-5 minutes...these Mashers go all day.