{"id":2330,"date":"2010-01-18T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2010-01-18T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:27:13","slug":"kenda-small-block-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/kenda-small-block-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenda Small Block Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/titus_racer_x_29er\/IMG_4922.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/89730-2\/IMG_4922.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 title=\"A Kenda Small Block 8 tire, acquired cheaply from the Kenda rep at Ray's MTB, is fitted to the rear of the bike to compliment the Nevegal on the front.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A rep from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendausa.com\">Kenda<\/a> was set up at <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/rays-mtb\/\">Ray&#8217;s MTB<\/a> on Saturday displaying all manner of tires, tubes, and such. Conveniently all tires were also available for sale, at US$20\/each, which is quite a bit below retail. I&#8217;ve been wanting to try out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendausa.com\/bicycle\/mountain.html\">Small Block Eight<\/a> (SB8), a small knob smooth-rolling tire good for hard pack surfaces, so I picked up a pair of them in 29&#8243; x 2.1&#8243;, the only 29er size made.<\/p>\n<p>The Nevegals (which came stock on the bike, front and rear) don&#8217;t roll particularly smoothly but supposedly offer great control. Following some online recommendations I fitted the SB8 on the rear of the bike, leaving the nice, big knobs up front for better control. We&#8217;ll see how this shakes out once I actually start riding the bike, but at least I&#8217;ve now got a few options to play with. If nothing else I&#8217;m sure I can sell the Nevegals and SB8s for a reasonable price to fund some other tires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rep from Kenda was set up at Ray&#8217;s MTB on Saturday displaying all manner of tires, tubes, and such. Conveniently all tires were also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/kenda-small-block-eight\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenda Small Block Eight<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}