I run a 3C Rekon on the front and have just put the dual compound version on the back. Initial impressions are that they cope with mud as good as any other non-mud specific tyre (it’s a nice, open pattern that sheds mud well) whilst being better at everything else. They’re expensive but IMO they’re worth it.

Someone suggested the WTB Convict 2.5, obviously it’ll be smaller than a plus tyre though. (way I see it, if I could get away with such a small tyre, it’d mean my BB was too high all the rest of the time… But hmmv)

Really depends on your mud and what you want to do in it- perfect example is Scotroutes’ Nobby Nic because it’s my old Nobby Nic! And I thought it was absolute **** in the mud, but he’s getting on well with it.

Muds tyres, **** that. Too much hassle to change them. Still using wtb bridger front and trailblazer rear. It’s only deep mud I’ve lost traction in (never though mud tyres did much better in this). There are so many wet roots in trails around here I much prefer fat grippy tyres to skinny kid ones.

The bridger looks good, I went for the less aggressive Trail Boss with a Ranger rear. Just need the wheels to arrive now…

2.8 NN seem ok with my local mud so far. That said, it’s been a relatively dry winter and not as muddy as previous years.
Equally, my 3″ Dirt Wizards on my 29+ work well too.

Both slide around a bit, but that’s half the fun.

Rekon + or Dirt Wizards. Dirt Wizard better for mud, but Rekon better most of the time. Been quite happy on the Rekons so far this winter.

It should be obvious tbh but everyone always assesses things around their own riding and nobody ever admits it. That’s why when people talk about “one bike to do everything” some people will say “a rigid singlespeed” or “a 170mm enduro bike”, they’re only talking about their everything.

TBH for this it’s also “what is a winter tyre”. If it’s just a tyre, that you use in winter, that’s different from “job specific muddy field slogger” like a Mud X or “#enduro vertical mud death” like a shorty or dh mud like a wetscream… Or bikepacking floating over peatpogs on a fatbike…

So I’m pretty happy saying, for the latter, the Nic is absolutely **** all use, and tbh I think for plus atm probably none are actually good, it’s just different degrees of bad. For the others I have no clue because I don’t do it.

Crap, I edited my own post and now it makes no sense. I meant to say “for the #enduro stuff it’s **** all use”. Dur.

Rekon’s F&R on my flare max. Chronicle/Bridger on my Stache. Both sets are amusingly useless when the mud does the ‘tyre filling’ thing. Otherwise they’re okay. I’d say the ‘best’ of them is the Bridger 3.0. Might try it on the front.

When it gets horrible tho I do a RD and switch to 29 and Minions. Not muds. I quite like all that sliding about.

3″ NN’s on my marin pine mountain, absolute hoot, gets a lot further than all the other bikes in the thursday night gang in the slop! Best bike buy ever! 😆