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TESTED: DUNLOP TRAILMAX RAID TIRES WORDS BY: CHAD DE ALVA PHOTOS BY: CHAD DE ALVA AND TIM BURKE Choosing tires for an adventure bike is an exercise in compromise. With stock wheels and road-focused tires, an adventure bike can be an absolute hoot to ride on the road and there is something that never gets old about getting after it in the corners. Yet when road-focused tires get into the dirt, especially in soft sand or in the mud, things can get scary in short order. The other end of the adventure bike wheel and tire spectrum is to run an off-road wheelset with narrower rim widths, which allows for running more aggressive dirt bike style tires. This essentially turns your adventure bike into a big dirt bike, and 100 + horsepower dirt bikes are
TESTED: DUNLOP TRAILMAX RAID TIRES WORDS BY: CHAD DE ALVA PHOTOS BY: CHAD DE ALVA AND TIM BURKE Choosing tires for an adventure bike is an exercise in compromise.