Ok just bought a nobby nic evo pacestar DD TL snakeskin ……..
I have done 1 dry loamy / sandy ride and it has ripped from the Centre of the carcas down to the sidewall bead.
I contacted my supplier who in turn contacted ISON the importer.
This is there reply;
Hi xxxxx, my colleagues are telling me that as far as we know, there are not particular problems with these tyres. The only thing is that when you ride on particularily sharp stones, this may occur. If this is a warranty issue can only be decided by Schwalbe themselves… so perhaps the best solution would be sending us the damaged tyres with the attached warranty form so that we can forward them to Schwalbe.“
So if you want to go off road best you walk the course to see if there are any nasty stones in your way…….
Absolutely astounding!
This is the third nobby nic that has lost tread blocks /ripped sidewalls .
I was taken in but the blurb from Schwalbe saying how the 2015 had improved blah blah but I should have known better.
So moral of the story;
DO NOT BUY THIS TYRE UNLESS YOU WANT TO LOOSE NEARLY £50