How are the 241s on pavement? I’ve had block tread trials universals on other bikes; I found them to be great off-road, but way too squirrelly on pavement, to the point of being scary. I have Shinko 244 dual-sport tires on my Yamaha XT250, and they are a good compromise, way better on the road. So how are the 241s when you get frisky on pavement?
I lightly touched on it in the review, but to go deeper:
I think there's 3 aspects to pavement performance I feel
1st is weight over stock IRCs. The extra weight has quite a bit more gyro, initial turn in is slower for sure. I've gotten used to it no problem. Obviously these bikes are only 250lbs, so tire gyro has quite an effect.
2nd is how bendy they are. They might be 4-ply, but that tread and even sidewall really bend. Some people say "like riding on sand" to me it's just like riding on low tires. Although, once you get past the initial rubber bending, they are very stable. Once the tire loads, and bends, and is set, then they are rock solid feeling. I like the immediate feeling of stock, but I got used to the cushy feeling
3rd is tread. Like dmonkey says, grooved pavement is a killer on these. The soft little lugs love to tramline as they are very soft, and fairly similar in size to the grooves.
"Squirrelly" isn't correct, but also not wrong at all. They do wishy-washy as much as the lugs are tall, but they hit the limit of stretch and you feel that grip and 4-ply.
The not straight molding/mounting is a bit of a pain, but it's not as bad as my bent rear wheel lol
