How to Get the Most out of Your Bike Tires for 2023, with Aaron from Maxxis

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

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Wilderness, Sports

4.7 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Chamberlain is the Bicycle Sales and Marketing Manager at Maxxis, one of the largest bicycle tire manufacturers in the world known for producing high quality products.

In this episode we ask:

Where are we at with bike tire widths? Clearly fat and plus tire adoption have peaked so are things looking pretty stable these days in terms of widths?
What are the considerations when choosing the right tire width, especially when there are so many choices? Will a tenth of an inch in width make a noticeable difference to anyone?
Do you think bike brands do a good job speccing tires on bikes? Do price and weight get prioritized over performance in some cases?
Which MTB tire features are a good fit for gravel?
Is it more difficult to design a gravel tire that’s both lightweight and fast and also durable?
Do any of the innovations in gravel tires have the potential to filter to MTB?
With access to pretty much any and every MTB tire you could want, how often do you change your tires: Seasonally? Every ride? Never?
One of the key specs when looking at tire casings is a number called TPI, threads per inch. What does that number tell us?
How does TPI work when there are multiple plies or casing layers involved?
What’s the best way to dispose of worn out bike tires?
What are some of the trends you’re seeing with pro gravity riders? Are there changes in the key things they’re looking for?

See more at maxxis.com and on Instagram @maxxisbike.

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0:20.2	Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.
0:23.0	My name is Jeff and today my guest is Aaron Chamberlain.
0:27.0	Aaron is the bicycle sales and marketing manager at Maxis and you might recognize this guy's voice
0:33.3	because prior to that, Aaron was my co-host here on the single tracks podcast.
0:38.2	Thanks for joining us, Aaron.
0:40.6	Yeah, man.
0:41.2	It's good to talk to you.
0:42.9	I don't know if people out in single tracks land know or not, but we get to still ride together fairly often.
0:50.3	And we both live in Decatur, Georgia.
0:53.1	So get to see you on a regular basis, but it's been a minute since I've been on the podcast. So happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And like we don't, when we do see each other, yeah, I'm not asking you about tire stuff, or at least I try not to, but. No, you're usually like riding really fast down the paved sections in between trails that I'm somewhere at the back wishing I had a cross-country race bike. Yeah, that's my New Year's resolution is to be like back at the group. Like I'm tired of being at the front because I feel pressure at the front too, even though I know that there's plenty of people that are like,
1:27.6	hey, guys, slow it down. But I still, if I'm at the front, man, I just feel like I have to go fast. Yeah, and then you got Paul in your ear telling you you're going the wrong way. Right. Exactly. Group dynamics. So how are things in the world of bike tires? What do you've been up to lately? Things are good.
1:45.1	You know, it's been a crazy, what, three years, two plus years, I guess. You know, like everyone else,
1:52.0	we dealt with a lot of issues through COVID with product availability and factories being
1:59.0	backed up and overwhelmed and, you know, shipping costs skyrocketing.
2:05.3	But yeah, in the last few months, we've really started to see things smooth out.
2:11.4	And it's looking a lot.
2:13.5	It's looking up for 2023.
2:15.7	Yeah.
2:16.1	Yeah.
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