Riding w/o snow? Hyfaxes?

[n16ht5]

How far can you ride on a trail or dirt road without snow before you have to worry about burning up your hyfaxes? I have a 2moto. I'm hoping to ride over in Eastern WA this weekend, but I'm worried that I might have to ride on the dirt for a ways before I hit the snowline. Maybe carry an oiler can?

 

[Popeye41]

Re; Hifaxes w/o snow

I don't know how it would be riding on dirt, but riding on frozen (ice) conditions where you aren't kicking any snow up on the track, speed seems to have a big effect on how the hi-faxes respond. If you are going fast, they will heat up and disappear. Slow down and I think they will last longer.

 

[thejean]

Spring day last year and I burned one up in about 15 mins riding icy trails on a warm day.

 

[kevinhoglund]

This a event a stevens pass this weekend. I here the snow is still good at Galliger. Hyfax are cheap. In the grass drags the use soapy water. Just hit some mud puddles. We need to go play in the dirt soon.

 

[Rush44]

Icy powder free days are worse on hifax than dirt for one main reason: speed. When there is dirt you slow down, get off the side of the road and search for those snow bands, and generally crawl along. When it's icy (and whoop free) I usually go just as fast as I would if there was a grip of powder on top. The speed destroys these things and allows heat to build up real fast.

Interesting... back in the day (3 years ago or so) people asked about scratchers and if they were needed for the Horse. Nobody ever really needed them and there was another reason for that: the old 6" dual keel ski. You had to have balls to ride that thing pinned down an icy road. We only started to hear about people melting hifax once the new ski came out and road speed levels increased. I'm thinking scratchers might be a good idea a few rides a year.

 

[Chadx]

I have had scratchers on my setup since new (one season) and when in doubt, I deploy them. Plenty of rides in and out on ice and little to no wear. Definitely worth doing in my book. Don't know what they would look like if I hadn't; might have been fine. But the standard spring scratchers are cheap, the hole is already in the rails so why not put them on if there is the probability of saving the expense and time of putting on a new hyfax. It took me 10 minutes to put them on.