Shorty Surfing with Antoine Caron

Connected is a Maxxis series showcasing tire choices for different riding styles and terrain.

• Name: Antoine Caron
• Age: 25
• Hometown: Quebec City, QC
• Riding Style: Fast and fluid with a knack for finding the transition, no matter how far away from the takeoff
• Bike: Pivot Cycles Firebird
• Tire Choice Wet: Shorty, 27.5x2.50WT, DoubleDown, 23 psi F / 25 psi R
• Tire Choice Dry: Minion DHF, 27.5x2.50WT, DoubleDown,  23 psi F / 25 psi R

Connected is a new Maxxis series showcasing tire choices for different riding styles and terrain.

Impossibly steep descents. Incredibly sharp rocks. Loamy drenched switchbacks. 

This sounds like classic BC terrain but these same features are also found on the other side of Canada in Quebec. The mountain range that calls Mont Sainte-Anne home, includes trail centers around Lac Beauport and Lac Delage with terrain similar to that found at the longest-running World Cup venue. Also calling this region home is Pivot-Reynolds Enduro racer Antoine Caron and for the final episode of Connected, he’ll rally his local Québécois chunder to show the capabilities of the Maxxis Shorty and Minion DHF. 

Lac Beauport’s SuperG trail is littered with a variety of slick-rock slabs, wooden trail features, and loose-over-hard dirt, optimal for the Minion DHF 80% of the time. According to Antoine “[the DHF’s] knobs are not extremely high nor too far apart, but they are pretty large so they don't bend too much,” offering a positive cornering feel on the hardest trail surfaces in addition to “loose over hard, rocks, roots, you name it.”