Good morning
For me Maxxis have in the past always been tyres I can rely on to pinch-puncture a lot less than other brands and I've been a user of High Rollers and Minions without issue for many a year.
However, in an attempt to 'save some weight' from bike I fitted a folding Ardent 2.25 (?) to my bike and have since punctured at least once or twice per ride ever since.
I ride in the Dark (grr) Peak area and being a chap of sturdy build do tend to slap my full bouncer quite hard into things and hope that the bike will cope with it.
However, last time I pinched I stuffed a crazy amount of air in the Ardent yet still managed to pop it on the Cavedale descent.
Has anyone else experienced this and is there a steel bead version?
Phat and Confused Of Sheffield
Ive been running ardents for about 8 months on my hardtail, im over 18 stone and go pretty quick on a hard tail, my local is Afan (15 mins away) and ive only had two pinch flats, mostly down to low pressure, both on the front tyre.
Might just be one of those things.
Hmm, strange. I do tend to do things such as manual into rocky ledges which I imagine can't help at all. It's a shame though as otherwise it's been great..
Go tubeless. Have had a 2.25 exo on the rear for the last 18 months with no issues at all riding hard ( as in clumsily ) in the lakes. Before that I'd average a nip puncture every ride.
I did think about going tubeless but was wondering how immune or otherwise it is to big dents in the rim?! :-/
the 2.25 exo worked well for me as a front tyre ran tubeless until it got a split at golspie.
no tyre is immune to sharp rocks but a good tubeless set-up is probably 90% as reliable as a full dual ply and tube but with 50% of the heft
Yep
non-exo = fragile.
exo = perfectly fine.
Can I just suggest that you never ever ever use Continental Supersonics. I tried them once and couldn't run them less than 50 psi. I run the Ardent EXOs at 26psi.
I run EXO Ardents tubeless converted and generally they work well, though I've written one off smacking hard into a rock which ripped through the bead.
You can pinch flat even proper tubeless tyres if you try hard enough / are clumsy. I managed to snake-bit a UST 2.25 Ardent coming down Cut Gate in an 'enthusastic' fashion.
Tubeless isn't magic, but on balance, I think most people flat a lot less without tubes and with sealant.