Thanks for vid mate. Enjoying your work. Love the straight forward honest review.

Great honest review thanks brother 👊

One my second set of AX41 tubeless on a 1200 Scrambler. Previously used 606, E07, TKC80, Tractionators and Golden Tyres on a number of ADV bikes. 21 f and 17 rear. As you said, the AX41 are brilliant on road tyres, wet or dry.. Off road they are the best of the 50/50 type tyre i have used so far. Always run them over 32/34 psi on the bigger bike. When i ran lower psi on the first set, rear wear quickened significantly. Get 8000+ klms out of a rear and 10000+ klms out of the front with a fair bitnof off road riding. Not the greatest in slick clay etc, like Bellthorpe when it is wet, but not many tyres are on a bike over 215 kg . Also, tar snakes etc do not move the front at all in the tubeless version on my bike. Never had a better handling semi knobby on the tar snakes actually. Just goes to show how different tyres are on different bikes. Great videos, well done.

Cheers Curtis.. Worth noting.. Always aware what will work from experience.. Star Vid

I was tempted to pick up this tire but saw your first impressions and held out. I've been trying to get a TKC 80 front for my KLR 650 for 8 months due to recall and back order. I've given up and I've paired a new TKC 80 rear with a Dunlop D606 Front. I know not ideal to mix tires but I'll be 90% off road, I live 1 mile from the trail head at 9,500' in the Colorado high country. You seem to speak pretty highly of the D606's so I'm going to give them a try. Thanks for the videos, you have the best KLR content and really put the old pig through it's paces!

Great honest review. I normally run d606 tyres but put 605's on drz400. Mainly for my wife who only does road work. Im just about to get a klr and will run stock tyres out then back to tried and trusted 606's.

Good review mate !

Fully agree! Great video.

Good to hear an opinion on em, was looking.. My Rallz did me 6000m rear on my gen2, hard to beat that tire if it suits your needs

Good review :)

I remember when you put them on and it doesn't seem like it was very long ago at all. Hopefully your next set will perform and last a lot longer.

Hey Curtis, Im running Maxxis 6006 front and rear, have only done 1000or so km but I find them great offroad , a little noisy on the road but they transformed the KLR into a half decent offroader , Hope they still perform well as they wear,

I just fitted an AX41 to the front of my Africa Twin (I couldn't get an Annakee Wild). The Annakee was great everywhere, so I hope this tyre doesn't suck as much as you've said. Cheers, CAM From NZ :)

Interesting. I was hoping these would be better than the 606 off-road. I’m just spoiled with real knobbies on my dirty bike and just need to accept my klr for the tractor it is.

Hi, Thank you for honest review, it is rare trust me (think if RevZilla or something dare to say anything like this about Bridgestone, they will not get Bridgestones for review anymore -and they will not going to sell very well after that ). Here in Finland the snow is melting fast and I'm going to put my first true 50/50 off-road capable tires to my V85 TT. They are Kenda Big Block. I don't know if they sell them in Australia, but they dirt cheap. And I mean dirt cheap. Everything here is way more expensive, but those costs under 200€ combined (front 79€, back 109€). I think the conversion rate is like equal, because everything here just costs more. Or this retailer get them very cheap? I suggest you to check, if you want 50/50 tire which also lasts some time. I think the official name is Kenda 784 Big Block.

Well... my experience has been. completely different. I am on an Africa Twin AS. On road, and offroad they are amazing. Specially in loose rocks. I haven't tried them in the mud. And I did get a flat in Texas, so i didn't get to see how long they last.

I got a set of craigslist almost new for 25$ i live in eastern Utah and have a 97 Honda Xr 600R i needed a rear tire so this was a cheap solution. Fortunately I'm in a county that you can ride motocross bikes on the road as well as quads and side x sides. We have hundreds of miles of oil well service roads plus lots of single track. I swapped the front back to a Dunlap full moto knob. I will probably get a re a dinlap knob as well. Thanks great explanation. I do door dash on the roads so the 25$ set were well worth it. BRRAAPPP!

Great review as always, the price of the 130 got me thinking I should try these on my 701as the same price as a D606 now, Glad I sore your review, I wont waste my money. I'll be sticking to my GT 723 front fatty (8-9K's with 5mm centre tread left) & D606 rear (average 4k, 5k if I ride it gently), great grip & mileage from this combo

That’s interesting! I’m currently running these tires on my AfricaTwin. Already got 3500 miles out of it (700 miles off-road) and will give them another 500 miles on road before I will change them. Just yesterday they took me through deep sand without any problems. Definitely the best tires I’ve had so far. But the mileage is not good enough for me as a long term traveller. 😅 There are no bad tires, just tires who fits you and your style of riding or not! 😉 Still a nice review!

I got 2900 miles out of the stock rear dunlop K750 (could have easily pushed it to 3000) and the stock front still looks almost new at 2900 miles. I weigh around 215 pounds and I run the rear at 33psi and the front at 27psi. Here in the U.S. I can score a K750 rear for $71 shipped from rocky mountain ATV. I do probably 90 percent of my riding on paved roads exploring or commuting/running errands. For my money, $71 to get 2900 miles out of a rear and at least twice that from a front (costs about the same) I'm good with them. Just had a new K750 put on the rear today.

Thanks for the video specially the recommendations at the end. Which tire would you think gives you the better overall performance for mostly road yet decent performance on trails?

What air pressure did you run? I found that dropping the air pressure made them perform much better off-road dropped more than what I used to run for pressure on the TKC80s.

Wow, surprising. I ran through a set of AX41's on my ktm 390 adv and a thought they are FANTASTIC on both road and trail. The rear does wear fast, that's the only drawback. I'm trying the Motoz Adventure's now for comparison.

Below average in the dirt. Back to the drawing board Bridgestone. In thinking back, I’ve run one set of Bridgestone Battle-ax tires on my ZZR1200 and they were pretty horrible as I remember. They’d slide terribly on tar snakes, and gave me no confidence cornering.

Been using the AX41 FOR three years. On my 1190r and now 901 Expedition. Before when i am going on a several week trip i put these under. I really like them. On the tarmac i just go a bit slower. It is what it is. But offroad for me they are very good. Even in sand. In wet grass you need to be carefull. But why should you try to go full speed everywhere ?

So what did you installed ? I have Dsport from Tusk, I will say 3000 miles, amazing of road, gravel, dirt, sand, mud…..on road, fine for aggressive knobbies but so noisy….

i have klr650 but i don't know choose size for rear wheels please recommend me too (batlax ax41) thanks brother.

Are these a 50/50 or a 60/40 tyre? Want some for my xr400. They look good tho. Want something reasonable good for off road trails. But nice on the tarmac aswell. Thanks.

These or the continental tkc80s? Both good tyres?

I've had 2 sets of these on two different ADV bikes and I couldn't disagree more (V-Strom 650 and Tiger 900 Rally). They've been fantastic on all off-road surfaces, and on wet and dry pavement they've been fantastic down way less tread than yours are showing. Durability on the rear was poor, especially on the bigger bike, but small price to pay for great performance.

What is a "road snake"?

Still like my Shinko 244

Sounds like similar performance to a d605

I think you had a directional tire on backwards witch with would run like a slick if so

Crazy. This is the 3rd review about this tire, and all 3 are totally different. Kyle Bradshaw loves them, "best Off Road tire" but hates the wear (therefore he recommends MotOZ) a German guy claims they are "long lasting, great wear" but average on and off road. And you say they suck off road but are awesome on road. Hmmm not sure what to do...

That's the first time that I've heard someone say they suck in the sand, maybe it's bike dependent?!

You can't do a long term review for this tyres, they don't last long enough

In your case Curtis ,I would say it's not you ,it's the tires. From your videos, your riding ability isn't in question.