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Jul 2021
7:00pm, 15 Jul 2021
2,109 posts
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RunningRonnie
Thinking about new tyres, what should I look for? I mainly do blue downhill tracks and cross country, riding mainly in the dry.
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Jul 2021
9:08pm, 15 Jul 2021
22,924 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I would say skinny as you can get but if my recent experience is anything to go by you'll be lucky to get anything much narrower than 2"
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Jul 2021
9:14pm, 15 Jul 2021
9,588 posts
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cathrobinson
I’m a big fan of Spesh tyres. Butcher on the front. Purgatory on the rear. I tried everyone’s favourite on a bike a while back - Maxxis high rollers - and found the rolling resistance just too depressing for me. The rolling resistance on the Spesh tyres is unfathomly good.
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Jul 2021
10:19pm, 15 Jul 2021
76,575 posts
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Hanneke
I hate Maxxis tyres!
But I have been out of it for so long, * can't really advise on anything.
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Jul 2021
11:09pm, 15 Jul 2021
19,189 posts
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Stepford Wife
I’ll give my standard Nobby Nics answer 😉 My go to tyre. If you can get any. But realistically there are very few bad tyres out there now. Well, cheap tyres are still shite but that’s why they are cheap.
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Jul 2021
1:22pm, 16 Jul 2021
2,110 posts
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RunningRonnie
Cool, thanks. What should be considered "cheap"?
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Jul 2021
1:56pm, 16 Jul 2021
9,592 posts
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cathrobinson
As a very rough guide, I’d say anything that is less than £30 RRP - before any discount. And anything that says ‘wired’. Ideally you want folding and tubeless ready. If you’re not tubeless yet, you may be well advised to go that route - particularly if you’re doing downhill stuff.
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Jul 2021
3:54pm, 16 Jul 2021
2,111 posts
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RunningRonnie
Yeah, I wondered about going tubeless at the same time. That's about the price tag I had in mind anyway. I thought up to £80 for the pair.
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Jul 2021
8:51pm, 16 Jul 2021
19,190 posts
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Stepford Wife
See what you can find then. It's horrendous for parts and will stay that way for a while. I look at lovely things in my Schwalbe catalogue, talk to my Schwalbe guy and then see what they actually have in stock.
Apparently there's more stuff in 29er and narrower sizes because chunky is trendy currently.
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Jul 2021
12:04am, 17 Jul 2021
22,927 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Narrower = good
29er = wasbeen trendy shite
Unapologetic for being staunchly untrendy (and thus saving myself a small fortune over the last 20 years). Looking forward to the 2024 reinvention of the 26er. I am so far ahead of that trend it hurts! 
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