Knobby Knife
#1
Knobby Knife
A while back I asked some of my buds on here that were also on thumper talk to vote for my entry in a contest to win a Knobby Knife. https://www.kawasakiforums.com/forum...t-38746/page2/ I ended up winning one of the ten tools that they were giving away. Thanks again guys! I had always been interested in the idea of the KK but couldnt pull the trigger on the $65 price tag. In the last few years I have been riding much more dirt than street, and having sharp corners on the ***** in the dirt makes a difference. Many times the ***** still have plenty of height, but the leading edge is all rounded off, giving up traction.
The mail man brought my Knobby Knife today (Friday) about 2 pm. I was busy packing to head out early tomorrow for the Golden Eagles Theilman MN trail ride. http://www.goldeneag...rail_rides.htm. The tires I have on the bike are prime for a KK treatment. I warmed the knife up and gave it a shot . It really was easy! The knife does not go burning through the tire like butter. It takes a little bit of a push to make it cut, which is good as it lets you cut and stay in control. Some of my cuts were a little ugly, but functional, and I'm sure that the more i do it the better I will get. Still I think I did pretty good.
I almost forgot to add that it didn't take nearly as long as i thought it would. I didn't time it, but I was surprised when all of the sudden, as I rotated the tire, the next **** I went to cut was already done.
rounded *****
sharper but sketchy first cut
getting better
doesn't take much
The mail man brought my Knobby Knife today (Friday) about 2 pm. I was busy packing to head out early tomorrow for the Golden Eagles Theilman MN trail ride. http://www.goldeneag...rail_rides.htm. The tires I have on the bike are prime for a KK treatment. I warmed the knife up and gave it a shot . It really was easy! The knife does not go burning through the tire like butter. It takes a little bit of a push to make it cut, which is good as it lets you cut and stay in control. Some of my cuts were a little ugly, but functional, and I'm sure that the more i do it the better I will get. Still I think I did pretty good.
I almost forgot to add that it didn't take nearly as long as i thought it would. I didn't time it, but I was surprised when all of the sudden, as I rotated the tire, the next **** I went to cut was already done.
rounded *****
sharper but sketchy first cut
getting better
doesn't take much
Last edited by dan888; 09-08-2012 at 02:33 AM.
#5
Here is a more plausible scenario.
Lets say someone was trapped in a burning car and I used the Knobby Knife to pry the door open. Lets say once I got them out of the burning car, I forgot the Knobby knife and it was tragically consumed in the blaze. Would I buy a new one then?
I think I would. It is a pricey tool, but I feel like it will give me at least double the life of my dirt tires, and pay for itself. It all depends on when you consider a knobby used up. If you run your tires down until there is a quarter inch of **** left, then this tool won't make much difference to you. If you change tires as soon as the ***** get rounded off, you will like the knobby knife a lot.
Dan
#6
It may very well come in handy in some other way.
Dan
#7
if my tires didn't just come apart on the 09 i'd consider it and using the ac10's they wear pretty fast on hard pack/roch the don't have the time to round too much, hove you run them since knifing them?
#8
I ran them pretty hard over the weekend up in Minnesota. Some beautiful flowing river bottom trails up there, but also a lot of gravel trails with big chunks of rock everywhere. The cut tires held up as well as a new one would have in the same conditions.
#10
Are these on level ground, or on inclines?