Puncture resistant tyre for commute
- SimonCelsa
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Puncture resistant tyre for commute
I really don't like punctures on my commuting bike. (hub brakes and tight rims).
I was looking to buy a couple of Schwalbe marathon plus tyres from the local Halfords for about £56 (£68 - 10% CTC discount - £5 motor club promotion).
Then I saw these, does anyone have any experience of these Durano plusses - any good? Half the weight of the marathon plus so potentially double the amount of punctures! Seem like a good deal.
I was looking to buy a couple of Schwalbe marathon plus tyres from the local Halfords for about £56 (£68 - 10% CTC discount - £5 motor club promotion).
Then I saw these, does anyone have any experience of these Durano plusses - any good? Half the weight of the marathon plus so potentially double the amount of punctures! Seem like a good deal.
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Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
This website is great for the sort of objective info. that can be really helpful, when making up your mind which tyre to go for.
https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.co ... -plus-2017
https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.co ... -plus-2017
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Better than Marathon Plus are Continental Contact Plus. A teeny bit less puncture resistant, only a teeny bit, but much, much faster rolling and more comfy. Ideal commuting tyres. I usd them as an “everything” tyre, including lots of light off road, for years until I went tubeless.
- SimonCelsa
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Thanks for the link to the rolling resistance database, it has the Durano plus but I cannot see any data for the Continental contact plus as recommended by Nearholmer. I'd not been aware that Continental manufactured a 'plus' tyre so will see if I can locate any online bargains and maybe give them a try. Cannot see any stock on the local Halfords website.
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Yes its a pity that brr isn't always bang up to date - I think it's run by a single person. But I just found a helpful chart, although as it's from Continental themselves, the data might not be as objective as brr's.
https://www.conti-tyres.co.uk/images/Te ... usTest.pdf
https://www.conti-tyres.co.uk/images/Te ... usTest.pdf
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Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
That test seems to relate to puncture resistance, rather than rolling resistance, and although it seems to suggest higher puncture resistance for the Continental than the schwalbe my personal experience in practice is that there is nothing to choose between them on that score. Both shrug off broken glass and everything else except the worst sort of armour piercing hawthorns. I’ve suffered two thorns through the continentals in six years, and one through the schwalbe in the same span, much more mileage on the continentals.
https://road.cc/content/review/225777-c ... -tyres?amp
A review with which I concur.
https://road.cc/content/review/225777-c ... -tyres?amp
A review with which I concur.
Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
Try these... https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYPART/ru ... protection
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I've got the Jack Brown blue on one bike and the Fatty Rumpkin blue on another (same product lineage) and they're excellent, but sadly not in stock
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Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
I use the Schwalbe Marathon as you describe and have been doing for years and am very happy with them. Few punctures. They are on my commuting bike so used daily. I ride about 6 miles a day in all weathers on various cycle tracks, every day all year.
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Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
Cut punctures by removing shards which are embedded.
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Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
I'd suggest having a look at Specialised Armadillo.
I've run the 28mm version on a road bike in the spring and Autumn along with the 32mm version on my gravel bike in 'road spec' over the winter and both the rolling resistance and puncture protection are very good.
I've run the 28mm version on a road bike in the spring and Autumn along with the 32mm version on my gravel bike in 'road spec' over the winter and both the rolling resistance and puncture protection are very good.
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Re: Puncture resistant tyre for commute
yep I do this regularly - definitely before any day ride.
Very rarely get punctures despite running tyres into the ground/running tyres with multiple cuts.
Some folk dispute the idea that most punctures are due to stuff gradually working its way through rather than sudden cuts, but it does make sense to me.
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I regularly get punctures from thorns -- the farmers seem to cut hedges twice a year at least so I'm continually watching the tops of the hedges to get forewarned of potential thorn thick road or path coming up. Doesn't matter which tyres I use the result is always the same.
The schwalby landcruisers stay up a bit longer so sometimes, if I leave the thorn in place, I can get to work before the tyre gets too soft. Sometimes the thorn will need the twig it's attached to cut with my side cutters but if the rest of it is left in I can usually get to my first stop.
Must try tubeless at some point.
The schwalby landcruisers stay up a bit longer so sometimes, if I leave the thorn in place, I can get to work before the tyre gets too soft. Sometimes the thorn will need the twig it's attached to cut with my side cutters but if the rest of it is left in I can usually get to my first stop.
Must try tubeless at some point.
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I find that with thorns, and being able to make the next normal stop, it's more down to the tubes than the tyres.Cowsham wrote: ↑11 Feb 2023, 12:26pmThe schwalby landcruisers stay up a bit longer so sometimes, if I leave the thorn in place, I can get to work before the tyre gets too soft. Sometimes the thorn will need the twig it's attached to cut with my side cutters but if the rest of it is left in I can usually get to my first stop.
On some occasions, I've found a thorn-punctured tube's been able to hold riding pressure for over a day, or two if I push it, so the thorn's ended up staying in for a couple of weeks, based on pumping up at the start of the ride.
Larger size tubes aren't so stretched when at pressure, so the thorn plugs the hole it's just made better, whereas in a smaller tube, the rubber unstretches when no longer connected to the rubber on the other side of the hole, pulling away from the side of the thorn and letting the air out faster.
When inflated outside the tyre, a tube "rounds out" at about a tyre size one smaller than the smalles size it says on the box, so for a 28c tyre, "large" might be a 32-47 tube, and "smaller" a 23-28 tube
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I'm very impressed with Tannus Tyre Armour for puncture protection - https://www.tannus.co.uk/collections/armour.
This morning a 4cm nail got imbedded into my tyre at an angle of 45 degrees as I was on my Sunday morning ride. It embedded to at least a depth of 3.5 cm but absolutely no penetration of the innertube with no deflation at all after I removed the nail. The Tannus tyre armour certainly did its' job.
This morning a 4cm nail got imbedded into my tyre at an angle of 45 degrees as I was on my Sunday morning ride. It embedded to at least a depth of 3.5 cm but absolutely no penetration of the innertube with no deflation at all after I removed the nail. The Tannus tyre armour certainly did its' job.
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I used to use that hard rubber / plastic tyre liner tape stuff ( can't remember it's proper name -- don't bother with it now ) but the extremely sharp large thorns from the many thorn hedges on my commute punctured that no bother.
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