Bias Tires for a Daily Driver?

[ridgerunner]

Been looking at Interco LTB's in 34X10.5 and the super skinny 34X9.5 TSL but they are bias tires not radials. All the other super swampers come in much wider tread widths. I live in N. PA and the mud up here usually has a hard bottom with grease between 2-12" deep on top. Most tires I've tried that are wider just float on top and spin, getting me stuck. Looking for skinny MT that will cut through grease and grab the bottom. Problem...they are going on my DD. How are bias tires on the pavement? I bought a tire siper so I can sipe the MT tires cuz I know MT and wet pavement/snow/ice do not mix well in my experience.

 

[gw33gp]

Bias ply tires generally wear out quicker and get lower gas mileage. They tend to turn in quicker in a turn but is not going to help a truck very much. If you can live with that, go for it.

 

[adsm08]

They ran bias ply tires on vehicles for about 70 years before radials became the standard they are today.

My bigger concern with this idea is that a lot of newer rims are not meant to take bias ply tires, and it may even be illegal to run bias plys on your stock rims in PA.

 

[hdmm]

Bias ply tires generally wear out quicker and get lower gas mileage. They tend to turn in quicker in a turn but is not going to help a truck very much. If you can live with that, go for it.

Not only this, but bias ply super swampers get flat spots over night, they shake like heck until you go a few miles and they "warm up". You will also have to rebalance them more frequently than radial tires. I ran 38" bias ply swampers for along time on a fullsize truck, the flat spots were a pain, but I lived with it because I needed the agressive TSL's

Honestly for a daily driven RBV, I would go with a agressive Radial MT instead of bias ply swampers. I ran 33x12.50R15 super swamper TSL radials on my Cherokee and those were decent.

 

[bigmark303]

Just what everyone else said about them. They are going to form flat spots quick and shake until warmed up, and they wear quicker and uneven if you dont stay up on them.

I had a set of 34x10.50x15 TSLs and it may have just been a bad experience but they were the worst off road tire ive run. They were to stiff for the rear end of the Ranger and never flattened out to take advantage of the side lugs in mud. The front end could flatten them out only if I ran 0psi in them. The side lugs are all thats good about that tire. Unfortunatly without the weight to flatten them out I was stuck running 0psi and still riding on the center tread in every condition but rocks. They handicapped my truck bad off road.

I ended up going to 33x10.50x15 BFG KM2 because I too need the pizza cutter tire in the mud. The BFGs are awesome and come factory siped so they do alright in the wet and snow. I can see getting 40-50k out of them with even wear.

 

[truckfan]

Aside from what others said, here's a good comparison between radial and bias tires. http://www.michelinag.com/Innovating/Radial-vs.-Bias-technology