Hauling dirtbikes and running drag car parts sounds a ton more like road miles with SOME trail thrown in. be honest with yourself and own up to how many miles on pavement versus off pavement you'll drive. Then, be honest with yourself about the real trails you will run and whether they will be more of the fun/aggressive fire trail stuff, or the hardcore 1 mile in 8 hours type of trail. The answers to those questions will help you decide on what tire you REALLY need. All of the guys that answer these questions like they have on this thread are just brand blind/starry eyed, for throwing out an answer without first knowing the real question.
In five years and tons of trail and hardcore competition running I have not seen but a few tires of ANY brand puncturd. I run with them all, so trust me that when people say it is one brand of tire over another, it is more realistically one DRIVER over another as good drivers don't pop tires very often. Heck, I haven't carried a spare tire in four years.
I run Pro Comp and have great success. They offer amazing street performance and in many comparison studies, outlast all other brands of light truck tires in road wear. Those that get less miles, are either set up wrong or have something wrong with their rigs.
The Maxxis tires have come on recently with a great lineup of tires. They are sponsoring heavilly to get teams to come to them but once teams have gotten there, they see that the tire, even though it doesn't carry the big brand (yet) is still a good tire.
The Interco tire line is based on the old adage that more is more. and that means in rubber content. The tires are thick and heavy and don't perform as great, but have a durability reputation that was earned, not bought. The Interco tires have a terrible ride on the pavement compared to most and don't grip as well in the rocks, but hey, there's a flipside to everything and that is the fact that they are tough.
The GoodYears and BFG brands all have their plusses and minusses as well. The tires you can get from them are about equal to the above tires I mentioned because you have to remember, that most of the comments on here are coming from guys that run the competition versions of these tires. The street version is quite different.
Again, all of the tires are similar in performance. It SOUNDS to me like you'll be more on the street and fun trail that would fare better with a radial than it would with a Bias. Sure, with the radilas, you'll have a couple of flats, but that will be offset by the length of time you'll get out of a set of radials versus a bias and in the end (3 years) I'll bet that with the driving it APPEARS you'll do, it will be a wash. That said, if it's going to be a wash, then I'd take the road manners of a radial as a perk.
Also, it sounds like you have a heavier truck...check to be sure that the tire you choose has a load rating worthy of your truck...most people with big trucks go out and buy a tire with a "C" load rating and then wonder WHY the tires don't last/work. Like the guy with the Pro Comp issues, I wonder just what tire he put on...when I'm getting 45,000 miles out of the Pro Comps on my tow rig that weighs in at 12,000 lbs and tows another 12,500 lbs on a trailer, I have to wonder why HE had problems and we don't...our tires are off the shelf just as his were. If both my wife and I go YEARS of hardcore competition and trail without tire issues, I have to wonder why HE had problems...heck, we ran the same set of tires for one year on one of our competition rigs and it competed in 22 events, and did 7 weekends of trailruns PLUS Moab EJS.
It most likely came down to putting the wrong tire rating on his rig and then running it at the wrong pressures. I may be wrong, but odds will back my statement that his performance is not due to the BRAND, it is due to the driver and choice of what load rating of a tire to use.
Even in the same brand of tire, there can be different tire ratings.
Sounds to me like you need a "D" rated tire.
