Metzeler Karoo 4 Review part 2, Too much mud, rescuing the bike off road 

Thx! Patience brings roses?

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Hi. After camera battery ran out, it started raining, pouring is better word. I was riding through other forest roads and gravel/sand paths. The tire performed very fine. Wet grass was tricky on one occasion, but I was crossin a slope of looong wet grass and rear slided down the slope. The tire and bike recovered nicely almost instantly. On tarmac I have no clue yet, I have to say the tire doesn´t make me very confident in leans. It´s because (I think) there is point in the lean, when the tire just falls into a lean and you instinctively pull it back, probably its in the moment tire reaches space between side and central knobs. Considering the tires are still fresh, I want more dirt under them until I start leaning hard. Btw front tire still have mold snakes on it, the compound is very hard. I didn´t have too much time for bike, hopefully that will change next week.

Thanks for support! It was mighty fun actually, being stuck and releasing the bike from the death gtrip of nature!

It sure does and it is still within legal demands. No decat, DB killer in... Compared to Akrapovič, REMUS is infinitely better sounding one IMHO

Thanks for your kind words. I kinda know what was wrong. The thing is when I saw that mess I was thinking something like: "This is suicide, should I even go in?" I was prepared for the fall. I am not sure if going slower would help, the mud was really extreme under water. Finding the path with least resistance is the thing experienced riders should do, anyway right?

@@cloudjumper8868 Hi! first of all: i am not a Pro or anything in that way. I just rode a 790 ADV almost 2 years and then bought a 890 ADV R. Ive learnt from my friend slowly to ride gravel and later Offroad. As i live in Germany, i have almost no chances to go Offroad - just illegal which i dont mind that much ;-) I did a Enduro Training lately. There ive learnt (the hard way of course), that going slow is the worst you can do on bad tracks/trails and stones. If its wet and muddy, this changes a lot but here i also agree: if you have to cross such a section, do it like a Chris Birch and fire the 1st or 2nd gear all the way through. I mean its obvious: if you go slow in mud, you will stuck at one point because the tire will fill up with mud. And then you will end up digging/pulling your bike out or pushing it with at least one extra person. If youre alone, you mostly get stuck because youre afraid to go through it and mess it up. Ive fallen like 10 times during the Enduro Training, only because i hesitated - but as a noob you dont know which speed is correct to go. Correct: a experienced rider will always look for the least resistance / the best path to go through. Keep your ride safe! And: if youre not sure - just step off the bike and walk the trail to see whats coming before you go and later realize: SHIT :-) sometimes saving the energy is more important than pulling and pushing a bike around for an hour.

@@zerotonine807 Thx for input. As I said in the video, it was all fun, even the part with falling and getting out was superb. If I had not the intetion to put the tire into test, I wouldnt go there, but I am glad i did. Ride safe too!

Yeah, the tire was not the problem here 😀

Hey thanks. KAROO 4 are supposed to be replacement of KAROO 3, heavily offroad tire. I think this is the - maybe extreme but still - terrain the tire is supposed to handle. But as I said before, I did purposefuly choose the worst terrain and path aviable to see what it does. And I am not ashamed, it was fun and challenging with healthy doses of adrenalin 😀