Trail centre newbie - conditions and tyre choice for Glentress/Innerleithen?

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Trail centre newbie - conditions and tyre choice for Glentress/Innerleithen?

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bigmeister - Member

Short visit to Glentress and Innerleithen planned at the end of next month - three days riding possible, weather permitting. Just looking to get a bit of advice on tyre choice. I'm pretty much a trail centre rookie (just one visit to Brechfa last year - it seemed very smooth) and much more used to the Surrey hills root-fest. What are the Innerleithen and Glentress red route surfaces like? Big difference in wet vs dry grip? Hard on sidewalls? I'm riding a Pitch Pro with tubeless ZTR Flows.

Cheers - Robin
Dorking, Surrey

Posted 4 months ago #
Trekster - Member

Not up on tubeless tyre choices but the average Gt/Inners rider probably has Maxxis high Roller front and Advantage rear. Good all round tyres. Trail surfaces are natural hardpack/rocky in places/gravely in places and bits of surfacing here & there when required.

Posted 4 months ago #
flatfish - Member

Small block 8's.

It's a trail centre, it doesn't require anything more nobly than that.

Posted 4 months ago #
Trekster - Member

Mate swears by his 8s, forgot about them. There is also the Maxxis Ardent?

Posted 4 months ago #
bigjim - Member

any tyre at all, its a trail centre! except mud tyres or slicks or anything daft. I was at glentress last night and with the mild wind the roots were dry and there were even small areas that were dusty dry, uncanny...

Posted 4 months ago #
bigmeister - Member

Thanks - great info. The trail centre thing is another world for me. In Surrey it sometimes feels (to me at least) like you could benefit from a different tyre setup every day, according to what particular routes you've got in mind.

Posted 4 months ago #
druidh - Member

Any tyre at all really. I was there on Tuesday and it was all pretty dry.

If you go to Inners, be aware that there's a bit of a detour on the descent from the Minchmoor summit.

Posted 4 months ago #
b r - Member

Unlike down south where we have (at this time of year) claggy mud to contend with most trail centres are built on 'hardpack' - well they have to be otherwise they'd wear out due to the volume of riders.

Something like an Ardent on the front will be good, and then a fast-rolling rear.

Posted 4 months ago #
bigmeister - Member

Putting this thread to bed...

Well, I did my Tweed Valley visit, and flippin' good it was too. I rode the Peebles Gypsy Glen circuit, Glentress red & blue, and Innerleithen red. Generally quite dry conditions, with a few puddles and sticky bits here and there.

In the end I went with tubeless Schwalbe Racing Ralph Evos front (2.4) and rear (2.25), and they were superb. Maybe once on the Glentress red I wished I'd had a slightly more aggressive front, to provide some off-camber confidence, but that was mostly in my head.

Superb routes, all of them. Thanks for the recommendations and tips.

Posted 2 months ago #

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