The Minion DHR might not flatter fitness, but it’s certainly a tire I know I can always trust to have my back whatever the trail is doing. There are very few truly fit and forget tires that excel in almost every situation. The amount of sensibly progressive carcass options and sizing gives Maxxis an edge over the ranges from Schwalbe and WTB and makes Hutchinson, Michelin, Specialized, Bontrager, Vee etc. A DHF is going to slide or slip more easily if you get heavy on the brakes or torque though and all-round Dissector/Aggressor grip isn’t even on the same page. The only downside is that even with the obvious ramping those big blocks and gaps mean it’s almost a gear slower (sorry, without a Scandinavian rolling drum lab to play with that’s the best anecdotal metric I can give you) under power than a DHF and a gear and a bit slower than a Maxxis Dissector/Aggressor. While the softer triple compounds start to round off pretty quick the well-supported knobs never rip off and while we have seen some warped carcasses, that’s a badge of hardcore honor not an indictment on the casing. Literally from loose, kitty litter trail center surfaces in summer to dirty Welsh woods in winter, you can go super heavy on the brakes and slam lean angles knowing that a DHR II will let you get away with more than almost any other tire. The wide, open, block tread is similarly utterly reliable whatever the conditions. Compared to similarly though tires at each level it’s an acceptable weight too. It’s damped enough to add calm and control but doesn’t feel dead and even the heavily reinforced versions aren’t so stiff they’ll hammer your feet or blow bottles out of cages. Give a great balance of traction boosting compliance but still stay supportive when you’re really throttling it through turns. It’ll handle low pressures without burping. Presuming you got the right carcass weight for your riding (rarely kill a tire = Exo, regular sidewall splitter = Exo+, regular rim dinger = DD, frame breaking, shock blowing animal = DH), your Minion will be a component you completely forget about. This created a prefect rear and front combo for riders who were hitting stuff harder and harder as bikes got longer, slacker and faster and possibly had ten kilos worth of battery and motor on board too. A light dual-ply DD casing and a ‘silkworm’ wrapped Exo+ casing filled the middle ground between the existing ultra-heavy DH and lightweight Exo. SpecificationsĪs well as a retread, Maxxis bulked up the carcass options of all their trail/enduro tires at the same time. Big gaps and serious sipes (central slots to allow the top of the tread to deform to the trail loads) give it a caricature ‘Swamper’ look and make sure it clears filthy conditions as well as that suggests too. The big center blocks got a little bit of High Roller (another leading Maxxis tire model) style ramping to make it look faster which combined with the lean loving L-shape and split square side blocks from it’s big brother, the DHF model. The original DHR was a great tire but the release of the Mk II version a few years back was when back wheel Cinders really crashed the rubber ball. Big, blocky siped tread is ready to grip anywhere but its not the fastest (Image credit: GuyKes) Design
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