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Hi Mike, yup that is the tire we have. Since I only have 2 out of 8 on right now, it might not be a great comparison for ride, but we did have a less jarring ride then with all goodyears on it. Our problem with the goodyears, were constant sidewall cuts, which I attribute to the Avenger fitted tire. We previously ran a bigfoot with the 12" wide rawhides, on all the same trails, and rarely came out with a flat. With the 11.5" tire, we always came out with a minimum of 1 tire cut through in the side wall. On one ride, we came out after 4 hours on 2 tires with air, the rest flat. Plus we also noted that the sidewall would puff out after a hard ride, as if they were weaker than the 12" tire. If you can visualize the tire starting from the rim, the first inch looking normal on the rim, and then it would puff out about 2" further than the rim, and then slope back as you got to the top, so that the top of tire was narrower than the middle. Probably hard to visualize with my description, but a tire should expand at the outer edges first but these were not. We thought perhaps we have a bad batch, we took pictures, and got the dealer involved with ODG, but there was no 'fault' found in the tires. That's the way they are and it must be the type of trails we were running. I would buy that if this was out first Argo, but it's out 3rd and on the exact same trails around our cottage.
RS Bolduc told me the tolerance on outside diameter for the rubber track to still fit and I am going to try and track that down.
You will notice the Stryker has some pretty solid lugs along the top sidewall for grabbing on the inside of ruts etc, and physicall look thicker in the sidewall than the GY.
Hope that helps.
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