Was out last night in serious mud and the Bontrager XDXs just ball up – any suggestion the best tyres for mud ( it is going to be a long muddy winter – joy.)

Highlight of the night saw two badgers !

If you don’t need the volume, then Bonty MudX 2.0 are amazing. If you have the frame clearance and are willing to have your will to live sucked out of you on road sections, 2.35″ Maxxis Swampthing Super Tacky (front), something grippier than an XDX on the back.

Deep gloopy mud then it’s hard to beat Trailrakers but they’re sketchy in most other conditions so depends on what you mostly ride through. Mud-X’s are much better for general wet/muddy conditions as long as you’re not in deep stuff all the time IMO.

trailrakers great general xc
or soft wetscream/swampthing if rooty (same comment as above though)
mud-x are quite good

if you’re fast, get some skinny boyracer ones instead (but I’d sink without a trace on ’em)

Around where I live muddy also equals wet rooty and whilst the trailrakers were great in the gloop they were iffy elsewhere. The Mud x seems a good compromise.

Have to say though when it gets proper muddy I just hate it and save the trails and go road riding instead.

Deep gloopy mud then it’s hard to beat Trailrakers but they’re sketchy in most other conditions so depends on what you mostly ride through. Mud-X’s are much better for general wet/muddy conditions as long as you’re not in deep stuff all the time IMO.

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trailrakers great general xc

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So not, draggy as hell buggers, you can hear them literally dragging on the road they make so much noise. Don’t get me wrong, great mud tyre but I won’t be fitting them again, Mud-X is a more capable all round tyres & don’t feel like your dragging the bike along.

1.8 Medusa front, 2.0 Mud x rear

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So not, draggy as hell buggers, you can hear them literally dragging on the road they make so much noise. Don’t get me wrong, great mud tyre but I won’t be fitting them again, Mud-X is a more capable all round tyres & don’t feel like your dragging the bike along.

(was mostly in the context of OP – “for serious mud”)

If I could carry my Swampthings to the top change them over andride them down they would be perfect.

I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet flog them, my legs aren’t man enough for them – 3 ride old swampthing2.35 STgoing up for sale

Continental Cross Country 1.5 or Schwalbe Black Shark Mud 1.5 for serious mud

If it’s just a mud & nothing else tyre then nothing beats Fire Mud pro’s which are by far the best out ‘n out mud tyre I’ve ever used.But terrible on anything else,scarily lethal on anything else tbh…

Schwalbe Black Shark Mud 1.5 for serious mud

+1, although now discontinued, fantastic tyres. Unbeatable in proper mud, Trail Rakers are too fat, they just clog in the frame if it’s really sticky.

Mud X for general winter riding.

Maxxis Medusa on the back for me and a Highroller or R/Queen up front maybe

Geax Barro Extreme 1.7s

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