Bridgestone AX41 90/90-21 & 150/70-17

The first time I saw my Triumph Tiger 800 clad in a set of Bridgestone’s Battlax Adventurecross AX41 tyres, I was reminded of a Tonka toy I played with as a child. I’d spend hours in the garden pushing around that bright-yellow dump truck over mounds of earth and obstacles. It would overcome everything in its path thanks to its giant knobbly tyres that, in my imagination at least, meant that little dump truck could conquer all.

I felt exactly the same way when I rode off on my motorcycle for the first time sporting Bridgestone’s most off-road focused adventure tyre to date. Those big, aggressive rubber blocks really did make the bike feel ready to tackle any terrain. It was clear from the outset that the AX41 isn’t simply an exercise in adventure styling. Instead, it’s a tyre for adventure bikers who spend plenty of time off-road.