Having ridden bikes for over 30yrs im finding the current variety of compounds, side wall construction, varying rubber hardness etc a total minefield. It wouldnt be so bad if the industry used the same abreviations, but thats not the case.

Is there a resource where all the descriptives such as 3c, pacestar, snakeskin, supertacky etc are listed and made clear for customers?

TR Tubless Ready – good for tubeless
3c – 3 compounds Sidewall strong, side knobs grippy, centre fast and robust
Supertacky – Sticky
Sankeskin – some kind of bad sidewall protection

Most manufacturers have some explanation graphics if you want to google them I can’t be bothered.

EXO = Maxxis sidewall protection (worth having)

Fab, thanks guys. I was hoping theray be all this info heaped together in one place?

You’ll like WTB’s new naming convention.

“Tough Casing” means tougher sidewalls
“Faster rolling” means faster rolling
“High Grip”…. well, you get the idea

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Loving the campaign for plain English descriptions there!

Loving the campaign for plain English descriptions there!

For Schwalbe:

Performance – Cheap and cheerful
Pacestar – hard compound (but softer than performance), faster rolling
Trailstar – grippier, softer, slower rolling
Vertstar – downhill sticky

Super Gravity – DH-owrthy sidwalls
Snakeskin – toughish sidewalls
Double Defense – step up form snakeskin

breninbeener – Member
Fab, thanks guys. I was hoping theray be all this info heaped together in one place?

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New here?

Like anything most things are marketing terms. Maxxis do a big chart of sticky ratings etc.

Will check out the Maxxis site, thanks