Sports Bike Rider Here With A Tiger On Anakee Wilds

Can’t help on the tyre characteristics but ‘moderate green laning’ on an ‘adventure bike’ is a recipe for recovery ...... a recovery truck!

The dream is always sold as Moroccan desert tracks. I cut my teeth on Hertfordshire green lanes when an XT500 was too lardy for the mud. Gravel tracks only!

 

I think your experience of 'coaxing a rowing boat around corners' is to be expected with this style of tyre on a bike as tall and heavy -- top heavy -- as the Steamer!

Think about this - that style of tyre is designed to support a motorcycle that has been deliberately LIGHTENED to enable it to be ridden across very rough terrain. The whole weight of bike and rider is supported by a contact patch which, in this case, is probably square millimetres! I assume the Anakee tyre is a radial so the sidewall is designed to deform - in a controlled way, of course - and the gaps between those tread blocks will mean that the individual blocks will also squirm under the weight of the bike and the pressure of centrifugal force ....... hence the odd 'rowing boat' effect!

The Tiger CAN be used for mild, very mild, 'green laning' but you would, IMHO, need to be big, strong, skilled and experienced to do anything other than a hard packed, gravel track on a bike of this size and weight.

Your on road riding would, I think, be infinitely improved by using something like Avon Trailrider or Metzeler Tourance. You'll see that these have much 'tighter' tread blocking that will give a, comparatively, huge increase in contact patch (compared to the Anakee's) and either will provide a moderate ability to cope with some green laning.

If you do take it green laning, it would be nice to see some pictures of the Tiger out in the wild!

 

Pleasure - it wasn't, by the way, meant to sound in any way 'holier than thou' or hectoring. I've known people take the Tiger - on semi-knobbly tyres - over very challenging trails but they had Thunderbike crash bars on for a good reason!! I've got a '93 Steamer so I know how heavy and challenging it can be!

Finding green lanes to ride is a challenge in itself! Are you aware of TRF? https://www.trf.org.uk/beginners/ Definitely a good place to start your search for local routes.

Best of luck with it all.

 

Just chucked away a decent pair of Anakees off my ditch pump in favour of more road orientated Roadtec 01s as I will never go off road. Firstly the weight was most noticeable when taking them to be fitted, the Anakees having very hard sidewalls such that my usual fitter couldn't get them off and didn't want to risk damaging my wheels. I never got any feedback from them either.