We met up with the guys from Vee Tire Co at the Winter Bike Connection event in Massa Marittima, Italy. They turned up with a brand new tire, the Snap Trail, to be available in both 27.5″ and 29″ size options, in both an enduro core and gravity casing. The Snap Trail is essentially a trimmed down version of the Snap WCE gravity tire, with reduced rolling resistance but still coated in Vee’s super tacky Top 40 rubber compound. We got a quick shot on it on the dry, fast and loose trails of Tuscany. Here is our first ride impression of the Snap Trail Enduro Core.
I tested the Vee Tire Co Snap Trail tire aboard a 100mm travel Orange Stage 4, a refreshingly capable short travel full suspension bike. The 29″ x 2.35″ enduro core Snap Trail tires were mounted to alloy rims with an internal width of 30mm, what they are optimised for. I ran it as a front tire, with Vee’s Snap WCE tire out back, with pressures set to 20 psi and 25 psi, respectively. That’s a little harder than I would normally run on my local trails but the Tuscan trails were dry with some fairly gnarly rock gardens in places.
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