1.9" Crawler Tyre Wars - Fake Tusk vs Proline Flat Iron G8

[@Br0rB]

I have both those tires, but haven't had a chance to run the Prolines that much yet. I have used the "Fusk" on the same rig as I have used some Predator TSL SX, and the Fusks do really well. Not quite predator well, but far better than the low price would make you think. I run all my tires with inserts I design and print myself, so the Fusks have dual stage 3D printed designed to fit and work perfectly. For the money, the Mix Racin "Tusk" tires are really nice in my experience. Apparently other Mix Racing tires are quite a lot worse though, which is a bit strange, but something about the Tusk design and the compound used in just those tires seem to do the trick.

[@ValleyCrawlers]

@@Br0rB totally agree mate. I’ve now got 2 sets as well as the original Tusks. They’re 95% as good at 25% the price. These are definitely the only cheap tyres I will buy again. Other tyre clones have left me really disappointed. I did think about getting some fake Trenchers but I’ve been burned too many times!

[@Br0rB]

@@ValleyCrawlers I have two sets as well, one still in the bag, as it looked like they were going away a little while ago, so had to make sure I had some spares. Turns out they were soon back in stock. ;-) I pay roughly 25USD for a set, with VAT for the Mix Racing, and a set of Tusks will set me back roughly a 100 USD here, so yeah, same deal, 25% of the price. Pretty good deal, that. The fake Trenchers are apparently awful, like truly awful. I have found the Injora 1.9 tires in S4 and S5 to be really quite nice as well. I run a lot of 1.0" and 1.3" Injora S5 tires, and they work great, and I have some of their 1.9" S4 and S5 tires as well, and they do the thing. I also have some RC4WD X2SS and some different Proline G8 and Predator tires, but they are so expensive here, that I'd rather just get Injora ones or the fake Tusks for some rigs.