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Furious Fred HS 395
No question - you want to win! Is the track drying out? Can you risk a puncture? Is your technical riding skill excellent? OK - you are ready for Furious Fred. Never before has there been a MTB tire that ran so fast. We re-wrote the technical handbook: Tread design optimized for speed, minimal material, 127-epi-Evo-carcass, triple compound. And for maximum off-road speed 2.25 wide!
Warning! To anyone who wants everything. Furious Fred is the fastest MTB tire - Ever! But be aware: It is not an allrounder. Grip is limited and risk of puncturing is high.
Folding Tire
| Art.No. | ETRTO | Size | Technology | Colour | Compound | PSI | Weight | EPI | Load | Tube | Price | Add |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11632495 | 50-559 | 26 x 2.00 | Evo | Black-Skin | Triple | 35-70 | 295 g | 127 | 125 kg | 13, 14 | 83.55 | Add |
| 11732496 | 50-559 | 26 x 2.00 | Evo_Tubeless | Black | Triple | 35-55 | 465 g | 127 | 125 kg | 87.45 | Add | |
| 11632595 | 57-559 | 26 x 2.25 | Evo | Black-Skin | Triple | 30-55 | 395 g | 127 | 145 kg | 13, 14 | 83.55 | Add |
| 11632596 | 57-559 | 26 x 2.25 | Evo, RaceGuard | Black-Skin | Triple | 30-55 | 435 g | 127 | 145 kg | 13, 14 | 85.55 | Add |
| 11633585 | 62-559 | 26 x 2.40 | Evolution | Black-Skin | Triple Nano | 30-55 | 440 g | 127 | 150 kg | 13, 13F | 83.55 | Add |
| 11652585 | 50-622 | 29 x 2.00 | Evolution | Black-Skin | Triple Nano | 35-70 | 335 g | 127 | 125 kg | 19, 19A | 83.55 | Out |
23km lifetime on asphalt road!
After 23km cycling i had a flat rear tire…2.0” evo tubless with crossmax-slr and no sealant.
no wonder!
No wonder you got a flat dude, u have to run sealant! Unless you got a sidewall cut the sealant would have sealed that hole up!
26 x 2.25
is this good for street riding? i’m looking for a light tire that can take abuse… planning to put it upfront…
just buy the raceguard model
just buy the raceguard model and put some silver tape like a second protection:)
Furious Fred
I have just purchased a Merida 3500 carbon MTB and it came with Furious Freds. After doing a couple of local rides I did a 125km MTB race (Contact Epic in Hawea, New Zealand). This race is over a combination of sealed road, gravel road, 4WD track, braided river beds, grass farm tracks and technical climbs/ descents on all types of sufaces including mud and stone. Over all these sufaces I found the Freds provided excellent traction and control. On firm dirt sufaces that were wet there was a little lateral slipping (but no tyre would have done much better). On the hard pack dry surfaces and sealed road the tyres rolled and rolled and rolled. This helped me to gain positions in a bunch sprint. During the ride I must have passed 20-30 riders fixing punctures and I got none!! Love the tyres and will definitely race them again in four weeks at the next race which is even better suited to Freds….
Protection! What protection?
Took delivery of my Merida Ninety Six 3500D factory fitted with these yesterday. It was delivered to my office, because I’n not at home during the day. Rode it home from work - eight miles ON ROAD. This morning, two flat tyres.
Sure they were fast, with almost road tyre level of resistance. Anf they are light. But two flat tyres in eight miles of road cycling!? These are coming off immeidately, I want to spend my time riding, not repairing flats.
Thin Tubes Leak!
For those of us who use thin genuine latex tubes, or even the thinnest butyl sythetic tubes… tires always go flat overnight!!! We expect to pump up our tires before every ride!
Back in the old days, when more folks used hand-made, sew-up tires, you were supposed to let out most of the air after every ride anyway!!! The idea was to let your tires relax, after the race, or the training ride!
So, if you are ever lucky enough to have the BEST inner tubes in your tires, expect them to leak much faster than those cheap, heavy, thick, hard, inner tubes!
And if you ride all day, after 8 or 10 hours, especially as the temperature starts to cool a bit, you’ll need to add a little more air!
Happy Trails!
Credit is due..
You probably picked up a piece of glass or metal in your tire and failed to remove the culprit from your tire. This is the usual cause of mutiple flats in one ride. Don’t blame the tire… blame the rider…
I rode Furious freds with stans sealant all season and didn’t have one flat…
Take better care when you fix flats… check for pieces of glass and metal befor you replace the tube.
S
what was the reason of your
what was the reason of your flat? how serious?
furious fred 26 x 2.00 Evo Black-Skin Triple 35-70 295 g
could pls advise howcome the furious fred 26x2 EVO black skin is 295 g EVEN less weight than the EVO tubeless one? if i need less weight, which one i buy? EVO + tube or EVO tubless?
Thanks,
wider in TUBELESS!
please add a 2.25 in tubeless… it makes so much sense since you’ll gain traction from lower pressures and flat protection and still have a really light tire!
29'r stuff
What about more sidewall protection? I have the racing Ralphs and have destroyed 2 tire’s sidewalls. Now I have a 29’r and wouldn’t get a tire without sidewall protection. What about the Rocket Rons and the Furious Freds in 2.25’s with sidewall protection. It is needed in the Northest section of the USA for racing and general riding
Furious Fred in a 24 and 20 inch
With the advent of such hard packed clay BMX tracks (not trick bmx or park or DJ, real BMX racing)These would be a real option on these tracks. But you dont make them in 20 or 24 inch. Many of the most popular race tires for BMX are low resistance style. Many of the tracks we race at are almost blue grove clay. We would love to test these for you.
Flat Protection
I have used all versions of Furious, Racing, Knobby this season as a pro xc/marathon racer. All of these tires work well but I am still left wanting:
Honestly, I would use the 2.0 Furious Fred 99% of the time if it were not for the risk of flatting. I weigh 160lbs and the 2.0 offers better control than the wider version or the Racing Ralph in nearly every condtion.
I also noticed that the 2.1 Racing Ralph seemed to handle better than the 2.25 so maybe there is an “optimal width”—traction/control/weight vs rolling resistance…
Knobs are over-rated in my opinion for traction but not for flat protection. Why not offer a bead-to-bead puncture/cut resistant belt or additional ply. Feel free to make the sidewall stiffer as necessary. If this tire weighs a 100g more but is virtually flat proof, it leaves me wondering if there could possibly be a better tire!
As a side note, I have been using the double defense tires in situations where the potential for flatting is exceptional. My analysis of the ride quality is very positive. The DD sidewalls are stiffer and rebound slower. This allows me to ride lower air pressure with more confident cornering.
dirt/paved performance
my nrs3 is set up as an all arounder—midge drop bars, 5” fork, 5” rear, but i currently run 26x1.5 avocet cross 2 inverted tread tires. i ride fire roads, sidewalk, pavement—fast(maybe all in one ride!).
avocets get me up 85% of what i climb; even single track; down is sketchier, but okay with care(i’ve been riding a long time). on road is pretty fast.
overall i’m pleased, but these are wearing and i want to try something else.
which schwalbe? fast fred(w suspension i have few flats)? marathon racer? something else?
please help.
race guard
Hello, I’m thinking in these for the rear and a R Ralph on the front, What is more resistant to cuts, thorns, rocks etc, a Tubelees version or a race guard version?
Thanks.
running them tubeless
can you run the 295 gram version tubeless if you uses stan’s sealant?
Yes it works very well.With
Yes it works very well.With stans wheels.
Works Great!
I ran almost half of the races I did last season with the Stans’s kit on the ZTR 7000 Race wheels with 30psi and never had a problem. No flats and no air loss! I’m going to run the same setup again this season.
worked for me
I ran the26x2.0- 295 gram FF’s on the rear with a Stan’s conversion at 30 psi in Paul’s 100km race in Ontario. I also ran the 26x2.25 -395 gram on the front, with the Stan’s kit at 28 psi.( both on a Stan’s ZTR Olympic disc only rim). There were admittedly few rocks in the Ganaraska Forest but there were lots of high speed log-overs and fast stoney fire road decents with erosion gullies. The tires gripped extremely well, rolled very nicely and never felt squirmy or flimsey! No flats! No drop in air pressure!
Not Recomended
Yes, it’s possible but you’ll have to run them at a high psi like you would the maxxis maxxlite310 tire or else there’s a high probability that they splurt sealant on your race-day aspirations.
should be able to seal any
should be able to seal any tire right?
wider tubeless
i’d be interested in a 2.25 tubeless version so i would have a bit bigger contact patch and better flat protection.
29"
I second that, this tire in 29’ would be amazing.Used fast fred in 26’ for years.
Furious fred
Please - in 29” size as well !!!
Furious Fred
I run your racing ralph 29er 2.25’s and would love a Furious Fred in the back 2.0. There’s definitely a market for it. Tubeless, sidewall protection please.
Furious Fred 29er is coming
A Furious Fred 29 x 2.00 is in its early conception stage. It should be available by late summer. Projected weight is under 340 g.
tubless ?
will it be possible to run the 29er version as ” tubless ” ( with sealant ) ?
flats etc...
You can’t blame a tire for flats…who knows why flats happen?…some summers - no flats - some rides 6 flats….not the tires fault.
As for the FF - 29 X 2.5 PLEASE!!!!!