Interesting - the Thunder Burts were not on my radar before, I'll give them a look. I'm currently planning on running as Dirty Kanza tires a set of Donnelly MSOs in 650bx42 (tubeless) if it's dry-ish, with WTB Resolutes as the mud-ish option/spares, but am still open to other thoughts (I hear Maxxis Ramblers aren't so great in the mud, for example).

I believe the Dirty Kanza was won on Thunder Burts for the first couple of years. As I said before, very fast on any dry offroad surface.

I'll be on a prototype panaracer tire that is very similar to the 33c Gravel King Mud tire. The tread is slightly different, but it is closer to the Mud tire than it is to the SK. If I wasn't using this tire, i would run the 33c mud tire. If I couldn't get a hold of those, i would run the 32c Gravel King SK.

 Rob,
Thanks a million. Good luck on Sat. We will be pulling for you and I hope to thank you in person.
Best regards,
Fred M.

not my video, but here's a sample of what Land Run roads look like after it rains: https://www.facebook.com/...s/10153469761199849/

I’ve raced Rasputitsa a couple of times and have been on the overall podium. I found file treads to work quite well In the years I’ve done the event. File treads tend to do quite well on hard packed snow too. It never gets super muddy in that race, so traction generally isn’t an issue. Plus the type of mud isn’t sticky at all.

38mm schwalbe g-ones were good and so were 36mm Bontrager CX0s. I’m not sure if I’m doing the event this year as I’m still recovering from surgery and not supposed to ride hard for another 4 weeks....so fitness is kind of lacking! Good luck!

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Thank you. Good luck on your recovery!