Components

The Williams tire combines the best of both worlds, with a smooth continuous centerline tread that rolls super-fast and super grippy micro-knurling across the side treads. The 2.5” width adds stability and softens hard landings, while still fitting in most modern frames. Nathan Williams tested and approved.

The FPS tire features a fast, grippy, low profile tread design with a knurled surface for added traction. The tread surface extends down the side walls, providing full tread contact even on the lowest carves. A low profile and minimal tread pattern keeps rolling resistance low as well. The 2.5” width adds stability and softens hard landings, and still fits modern frames.

The Kink Wake tire features an all-new low profile, grippy, modern tread design. The entire tread surface is knurled for extra grip while still rolling fast and smooth. An aggressive but low tread profile makes this tire great for a range of surfaces, from street to park to dirt. The side treads taper down flush to the sidewall, giving you traction on carves and helping with grind clearance. The 2.45” width is plenty wide while still leaving space for good frame clearance.

The Kink Sever tires feature a simple, yet stylish and effective low profile tread pattern that rolls fast while providing a ton of grip. The entire outer tread surface is micro-knurled which adds additional traction, fresh out of the box. The 2.4" tire width and resilient rubber compound help soften hard landings for both the rider and the rims. Increased thickness in the side wall areas helps to prevent flats, and improves stability even when running lower tire pressures.

The Kink Universal Driver guard is designed to fit most modern freecoaster and cassette hubs using either an 8t or 9t driver. The guard is made from heat-treated chromoly steel, giving it a ton of strength and long lifespan. The slim chromoly design means it can slide between your existing hub hardware and dropout, which allows for easy installation.

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Merritt Option Tire
The Option tire takes a new look at what makes a good street tire, and goes way beyond just making a tread pattern that looks good. Featuring our Slidewall Technology which is our own ultra-hard low friction compound that helps reduce drag on grinds and increase the life of the tire sidewalls plus a ton of other features. The center section of the tire is smooth, so it is nice and fast, but the tread is actually thick for this section. The thicker tread has the benefit of increased shock absorption and then abruptly tapers down to a thinner thickness. By having the tapered tread connect to the thick center section, it offers support so there is no squirm and the tire is stable and at the same time reduces the tire weight because there is no benefit to the thicker tread on those sections of the tire. 20" x 2.35"
Weight: 27.4

Merritt Foster FT1 Tire
Trails nowadays are nothing like they used to be, very little pedaling and/or braking and the dirt is usually rock hard, it doesn't make sense to mimic MX tires (that have to accelerate, brake and turn in soft dirt) with big knobs anymore and BF rides a mix of everything, so his tire needs to work well on everything. That lead to giving the FT1 a relatively smooth center section, to make the tire fast. Turning is when an increase in grip (instead of outright speed) is needed, lean the bike over in a turn and the micro-knobs come into play. The micro-knobs provide a perfect balance of surface area, stability and space in between for when the dirt might be a little soft still. The micro-knobs actually stick up above the main surface a super small amount, this allows them to sink into that slightly soft dirt and give an increase in surface area contact, but the amount they are raised doesn't negatively affect stability or grip on hard surfaces. At the edges of the tread pattern are smooth tread blocks that help protect the sidewall on ramps and street.
Weight: 23.2oz