Tyre Percentages

[phil4]

the BF Mud tyres are described as 20% on road, 80% off road.
The Yoko A/T tyres as 50% on 50% off road.

What does this really mean? That for every hour driven on the Yoko tyres on road, I should drive 1 hour off road? Or vice versa?

Or worse still, if I drive to Salisbury plain on the Mud tyres (31 miles each way), I should then drive 248 miles around Salisbury Plain?

[Peter255]

Its the compromise the tyre is designed to support.

100% road tyres are designed purely for road with no off road features. They should be good on the road but likely terrible off road.

50-50 would be a designed for both on and off road with a bias for neither. They should be OK in both conditions.
BF muds with road 20 - off road 80 are designed primarily for off road use but would be useable on the road.

If you use your car the same amount on and off road get 50-50's. If you spend most of your time off road get the BF muds. If you just use the Nomad on the road just get road tyres.

Its not to do with timings.

Or buy and swap between two sets of wheels for each use (on and off road).

[phil4]

Thanks Pete, I clearly spend too long looking at specifics and not generalising enough.


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[Karl V]

If Sunday is anything to go by Phil, you may be better off with a set of rally gravel tyres ;-)

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