So i'm looking for a new tyre and i'm well impressed with the 2.4 Conti X-Kings Black Chili protections on my brothers bike, but he says the front can wash out and go from plenty of grip to no grip, especially in wet mud, pretty quickly. I think a rubber queen is bit too far in the other direction so i've ended up looking at the mountain king II. They look and sound exactly what i'm after but I have a problem.
The back end of my Blur Classic is pretty tight and I want to get the bigger of the two sizes in there if I can. I currently use 2.25 Maxxis Crossmarks and they seem fine for clearance. Reading about Mountain kings I can't work out just how big a 2.4 MK really is, a few of the reviews say they measure up small so I don't want to go for a 2.2 that actually ends up being more like a 2.0.
So my question is, does anybody have the 2.4 or the 2.0 and how do the rated sizes turn out to be once they're fitted?
Cheers.

