A forum for owners of Yamaha TTR250 trail and enduro bikes!

Sorry can't help with a wheel, but my mate and I are also going to exmoor, so that's 3 ttrs. Still not enough to slow the Orange tide

Why on earth would they want you to use Trials Rear tyres , thats just cruel .

Unless it's to get more people bogged

It looks like a wet place in that photo

 

 

 

I used to do Clerk of the Course for some centre Enduros using weavers down and the other ranges up near there. It was amazing that the Army would take big recovery tracks round that would leave, well more mini valleys whereas we were seen as being more damaging to the ground. We could often blag a landie off the REME guys (always helps to know people) which always had the big V treaded tyres, the landie equivalent of npbblies I guess which could do some quite serious ground chewing.
Where the goings good the trials tyres just rip off the suface, on fast sections there's little to choose between then if you look at damage. When you get to wet and nadgery sections the trials tyres still cut trenches, just not as deep. Slightly damp to wet chalk like you'll find around tidworth trials tyres can be real fun, they grip almost as well as cold race slicks in the rain. In really gloopy mud (like weavers down sandy swampy areas) nothing much helped really apart from the other bogged riders LOL
You can ride quite fast on most ground using trials pattern tyres (we used to get the trials riders cast off), I've raced on them from nice summer days to, on one occasion, about -10C. It's just adapting to the way they need coaxing to hook up and how they'll bail on you when you push them hard. In a way it was quite handy, made you really appreciate a more open nobbly or pukka enduro tyre when you could use them