Hey,

just wondering what is meant to be good for wet and muddy conditions?

Needs to be for aggressive trail riding and round about 2.3 .

cheers

I’ve got some 2.3 Kenda Blue Grooves (because i’m a cheap b’stard) and they do ok in the swamp.

Planet-X had them on at a discount.

don’t mind spending a little bit on them as I’m in NZ at the mo and the trails here are so much tighter than home. The native bush trees are cm’s from your bars as you fly by. Need grip 🙂

Maxxis Swampthings

none, for my money there are no tyres that work in the mud

its all a myth

I second the swampthings, they defy belief somtimes, really really slow on hardpack or Tarmac though

I use Intense DH Mud or Michelin DH Mud 3 (or something along the lines).

cool, I will check em out!

Not expecting dry grip trailmoggy, but there are differences in tyre types. If not we would all just run slicks if the grip was all the same.

go for Kenda ! my son has kenda blue and i have Kenda (they are lasting ages and i ride 3 times a week,,, good thick knobbly tyres…

cheers guys, managed to find a swampthing over here for about 15 brick so not a bad price huh!

will be using this once the wet weather kicks in!

FWIW I’m riding trailrakers at the moment. They’re a (very) skinny 2.1 but what I gain in grip more than makes up for the volume disadvantages at this time of year. They have a tendency to clag up in really gloopy stuff, but really good otherwise.

When it dries up in a month or 2 will return to ‘normal’ tyres

Swampthing but they drag horrendously, Maxxis minion DHF front and rear is a good compromise…..

it won’t be a tyre I use all the time, just something for when its wet at the weekend but I wanna go out on grade 5 trail stuff. Grade 5 is basically the stuff before downhill over here.

If so the trailrakers are prolly too skinny

Is the downhill not muddy? Sounds like you don’t want to change your tyres much. If you aren’t doing many road miles the Swampthings sound good

Otherwise 2.35 High Rolelrs are good

Swampthing – you make my heart sing!

Gotta be swampthings, they are class in the wet and muddy that we seem to get year round at the moment

Wet Scream anyone? They DO work in the mud….

heard the wet screams are for really bad conditions. Kinda the next step up from the swampthings. From what I have read.

Having used wet screams I can confirm they are insanely grippy – noticeably more so than swamp things and even other spiked full muds.

Really they are overkill for all but the steepest, most tech, rooty rocky dh trails around – on anything else you’ll find yourself cursing their huge rolling resistance and massive grip. A very specialist tyre, then again if you want to experience the ultimate in grip and a bike that always feels planted regardless of conditions then try them I suppose.

They come in at about 2.35 I think.

yeah, they might be a bit overkill as it won’t all be downhill dodgy conditions.

the swampthing was £15 so not the end of the world if I don’t like it, but heard lots of positive stuff about them for winter conditions.

Bonty Mud-X, slightly narrower but the best in wet and muddy conditions IMO.