Sideways grip, or lateral traction, refers to a tire’s ability to corner, and is based on the performance of the tire’s sides, or you can say shoulder lugs. With a more streamlined design, the Sumitomo Encounter A/T yields a better directional grip.īasically, this type of grip has to do with the central lugs, as they make the most contact with the surface “when moving on a straighter path”, so with closed up lugs there, tire is able to stop quickly, with shorter braking distances.īF Goodrich KO2, on the other hand, although offers a consistent pattern in the middle, it’s wider grooves don’t allow a lot of rubber to stay connected with the surface, and so overall friction and grip is compromised. In order to understand overall dry traction, we have to check out directional and lateral grip separately, one by one. This basically helps the tire when aired down to lower pressure PSI. Towards sidewalls, the tire makes M shaped lugs there, which are although not so thick are still pasted on a good amount of area.
Moreover these lugs carry more aggressive siping (compared to the middle) and with it provide amazing handling capabilities on wet. Moving towards shoulders, the lugs are although not staggered, each lug is serrated on itself, so they still provide good enough lateral bite off-road.
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The ribs in the middle are packed up together and are placed in wide circumferential grooves, which separate the shoulders.Īll these ribs carry very small lugs (compared to sides), with full depth siping pattern and biters.Īnd with closed up arrangement they make very narrow internal longitudinal grooves. Sumitomo Encounter A/T provides bigger shoulders and smaller lugs in the middle, both carrying different siping design. On the other side, the Sumitomo Encounter A/T is designed very differently, though it also contains 3 ribs in the center and elongated shoulder lugs on sides. The prominent lateral spacing between these, which carry bold stone ejectors go all the way, towards sidewalls.īoth differently shaped shoulder lugs basically join together there forming sharp slanted biters in between. On sides, the tire features staggered shoulder lugs, equipped with mud scoops and sharp full depth notches, giving it a wild, off-road-ready appearance. It’s self cleaning grooves feature dual stone ejectors and sharp, full depth notches placed at various angles to improve traction on all types of rough terrains. Lets start things from the middle, here there are 3 main ribs containing worm like blocks.Įach block is equipped with full depth interlocking sipes, which enhance the tire’s off-road performance by splitting open the blocks (all the way) and providing additional grip. Though it offers thicker rubber on top, going up to 20/32″ whereas the max you get on BFG, is 15/32″.īF Goodrich KO2 interconnected grooves are very efficient in self cleaning off itself from light dirt and mud. The BFG KO2 offers a stronger overall construction, with 3 ply polyester carcass, 2 wide steel belts layered on top, and 2 nylon cap plies “spirally wound”, whereas the Sumitomo offers with just 2 layers of polyester, 2 belts and a single cap ply of nylon.
Though on the outside, they also have a cut resistance rubber and deep tread voids that help out things further. Off-road tires are made strong with powerful internal construction. (It’s amazing to see that BFG KO2 with such durability, weighs lighter, comparatively).
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