Thinking positive despite today’s four seasons in one hour. Looking forward to removing the tractor tyres and getting some faster rolling rubber onboard.

Currently running magic Mary / hans dampf combo.

What would folk recommend as a good front / rear combo for the better weather. Will be doing some enduros throughout the season.

Will be doing some enduros throughout the season.

Had a go on some Spesh En Dew Row tyres recently, Butcher front and Slaughter rear. Set up tubeless, in achingly now 650b flavour.

Very impressed. Front bit in hard, but rolled pretty quickly. Rear was fast as anything, and enjoyably sketchy for teh radnezz!

As above, the butcher/slaughter combo is my fave at the moment

I don’t think you can go to far wrong with Ardents. I’m a Maxxis fan so it’s HRII/Minion DHR for the muck, an Ardent goes on the rear as it drys and on the front too when the dust blooms

Will be sticking to the same as what we use all year round. Butcher control on front, Purgatory control on the rear

General mtbs Purgatory Grid front, Crossmark rear. XC Race 29er Ground Control front Fast Track rear.

Wildc4rd…..interesting point on the XC tyres. On mine I currently have a purgatory control front and ground control rear but just about to swap them off, probably for Bontrager XR2s. The spesh were a right faff to set up tubeless. I’ll have a look at the fast track though. How is it tubeless?

Just changed to Conti Trail King Protection front and back. Really good on the local dry forest trails, and perhaps even better on a trip to the wet rocky trails of SW scotland just now. Tough and pretty light weight, set up tubeless on stans flows easily. For me much better than sketchy no grip area on high rollers I was running previously

Crossmarks front and rear – when it’s dry this is the best set I’ve tried. Fast, grippy and… Did I say “fast” already? 8)

Hey medoramas would that be crossmax charge your recommend or roam xl?
Thanks

Given the snow today in Scotland I don’t bother with summer tyres.

highroller 2 and captain I reckon, worked last year, not spending any more til they’re dead

I’ll be experimenting with a racing ralph rear, ardent front combo on the HT and an ardent with 10% tread left rear, purgatory front on the big bike and combinations of the above.

julzm
It’s CrossMARK by Maxxis, not CrossMAX by MAvic, buddy 😉

Ah ok that’s why I couldn’t find any mavic crossmarks

I’m running minnion 2.35 front and ardent race 2.25 rear, 29ers and in EXO casing, set up tubeless. Great combo, been running them since I built my codeine up a couple of months ago. Rear was a bit slick on a couple of wet (with snow too) rides, but never really struggled. Going to be great in the summer whenever it eventually arrives

Much prefer EXO casings for running tubeless compared to spesh controls at my 100kg heft

Julzm, I’ve not had an issue with specialised tires tubeless, only ones I have had trouble with are the 26″ Maxxis Crossmarks on the singlespeed and 2 fs bikes, they never want to seat at all. Perfect once on though! Decent high volume for a 2.2 as well.