Tire recommendations
 

Looking for recommendations for tires on a stock altered for outdoor tracks. Most are decent clay tracks with an occasional not so good track. Currently have VM07 and am struggling to get them to hook well if not an exceptionally good track. They seem to almost have too stiff of sidewalks for softer tracks and I have played with the pressures quite a bit.

Some good ones I’ve heard of are the VM08s and Nichols tires. Although I’m not sure of the difference between the different Nichols models.

The Nichols tires have had problems with chipping on certain tracks. Indoors the 101 in probably the best tire available in my opinion. I never had much luck with the VM tires, but if I were to try them it would be the radials. I like the old Lawwntecs but there were so many poor sets its hard to find the early ones made by Denman tire. The S code is the easiest way to ID them. There were non S code tires made too, the S stood for small, typically the early Lawntecs were 85, 86 inch circumference, the S were 83 - 84 inch.