Well I ran the conespikes today, I liked them though for slightly different reasons to others!
Firstly the moulding is perfect, each spike nicely defined with an edge. The carcass is well made and of decent even thickness all the way round. They are a fraction smaller than a Schumacher mini spike but only a fraction. So they look good.
Fell wise, they don't feel the same as a yellow, there is more natural rubber in them, like a green Schumacher. As an approximation you could say in your hand they feel half way between a Schumacher yellow and green.
I planned to run mine in the 4th round and the final but in the 4th round my servo packed up. By the final the grass on the track was nailed, it was really biting into hard packed (concrete almost) dirt under the grass. They gripped really well and very consistently between the non grass and patchy grass bits left. What I would say is that the fronts had slightly less grip than the yellow, which I liked actually, maybe more of a balance. The rears are different to yellows, very good drive and as Tom proved good while they wear. They visually look to wear faster than yellows but seem to hold on that bit longer.
Much more to test but a very good tyre, I think they might be really good on drying tracks when you're not usually sure whether to be on greens or yellows. Or a less edgy tyre on grippy grass or astro.
Terry took a great pick of the top profile back to back against a Schumacher, hopefully he can pass it on tomorrow
Dan
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