No offense to anyone's ride of choice ...........
Do not buy Mud Lites. If somebody gives you a set, sell them and buy something else.
Some of y'all who run Mud Lites may not have had any trouble out of them yet, but I'd bet you haven't riden your bike very many miles through really rough terrain either. Mud Lites are not a true 6 ply tire. The sidewalls get progressively thinner the father down the sidewall toward the wheel you go. At the wheel, they are 2 - ply.
Any tire can and will fail, but Mud Lites have proven to those who ride all the time to be more succeptable to failure than most all others.
I guided a ride on Windrock a few months ago for a group who wanted difficult rated trails and higher speeds. We have one gentleman down from Wisconsin for his first trip on Windrock, and he had a brand new set of Mud Lites XTPs on his PoPo. He rode the bike back to the trailhead with the rest of us, but he pulled back in with one flat tire completely off the wheel, and 15 plugs in three tires. Yes, you read that right ..... 15 plugs n 46 miles on Windrock.
I could go on all day long with Mud Lite horror stories, but you get the picture.
Right now, probably the best tires out there are Maxxis Bighorns, Swamp Lites, and Swamp Foxes.
The Swmp Fox is a really stiff tire. 6 ply, stiff enough you can sit on an unmounted 26" tires, and if won't give. Deep Tread .... and they will through stuff forever behind you. Good tire from what I have seen so far.
I choose the Bighorns, though. Absolutely fantastic tire. Decent in the mud, and outstanding in every other department. Absolutely outstanding. 6 ply radial. Rides like a Michelin. Best tires on wet nast rocky terrain out there, if you ask me. I am active in the Windrock ATV Club (I'm on the Trail Patrol up there), so I ride every minute my work schedule will allow with folks from all over. I have only seen or heard of one Bighorn plugged on Windrock. One. That is huge.
I run 26" Horns on my Foreman, and they actually measure close to 27". Between the 'Horns and my Perfex suspension kit, I went from less than 8" of ground clearance to 14" of GC at the floorboards. Seriously. Between the two, they will make that Foreman ride like a new bike. They did mine.
