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Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 4:26pm
by 3spd
Could you recommend me a pair of tyres for year round use on my hardtail, please? Previous tyres were front WTB Trail Boss 2.25 650b and rear WTB Beer Line 2.2 650b.

Re: Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 4:51pm
by fossala
What sort of riding and surface will you be using them for?

Re: Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 5:00pm
by hamster
Schwalbe Rocket Rons work well in most conditions. I don't recall flints when I lived in Loughborough which can be thier undoing.

Re: Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 5:21pm
by fossala
If you are doing on-road riding compass tyres are the nicest I have used and come in 650b sizes.

Re: Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 5:51pm
by 3spd
Any road riding will be just to connect off road sections.
Riding is roughly split 60% off road, most often Peak District, and 40% trail centres.

Re: Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 9:28pm
by sbcoombs
I use Racing Ralph's as a great fast rolling tyre. For trail centres, Nobby Nicks probably a better option.


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Re: Tyre question -SORRY

Posted: 25 Sep 2017, 9:33pm
by EddieJ
I run Hutchinson Toro's back and front on one of my hardtails, and on my second hardtail a Schwalbe Racing Ralph on the front, with a Schwalbe Rocket Ron on the rear. I quite like the loose feel that the Racing Ralph on the front gives. The Rocket Ron struggles for traction during the wet winter months, but I stick with the set up, as I also enjoy the low rolling resistance that they offer.

Toro's are superb, but they seem to develop a habit of becoming porous on the sidewall if run for any length of time as a tubeless set up. I have had two sets in row become porous, which is obviously not an ideal thing to have happen.