Just seen these on the Planet x website..Anyone used/ can rate them for us?
Am tempted to add a pair to the ever increasing tire mountian in the corner of the garage..
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I had them on my last bike as replacements for the heavy crap beaded conti gravitys that came on the bike. they were decent enough, pretty lightweight and shed the mud well although I didn't have them for that long so couldn't be sure and I'm no expert... it all depends on whether you have similar in the tyre store already?
I ran these (tube type) as tubeless with sealant for 2 years, worked well and thought they were a great all-round tyre...
Cheers Ed, ( late edit, and Bullet)
Looking for a half way house between the summer dry use only Bonty XDX's and my VAST selection of full on mud tyres. have ordered a pair, so if they're crap, I'll blame you!
Don't use them on wet rooted trails, hard compound v slippy - collarbone breakers!
Been using these for three years, run them all year apart from the sh1tt13st of mud, still shed very well though, with the time I have been using them I now find them predictable, and don't have any issues regarding rubber compound.
General good all terrain tyre, just as they are marketed
Run 2.2 on both bikes now
I ran them for 18 months or so...thought they were pretty good but they did appear real narrow...I'm not a smooth rider and found that although they gripped they didn't stay on track for long...probably due to my crap technique but I found a slightly wider tyre stayed on track better...
Would ride them again though...didn't loose any grip and seemed to work well on whatever I was riding over (ranged from total dry, flat surface to some real rocky/rooty/wet stuff...)
real narrow?! The 2.2s are pretty large really, at least on a par with kenda 2.1s.
Candodavid first alerted me to these tyres, since he get on really well with them. I've used them tubeless (tubed version) for the last year and found them to be good all rounders.
David is a pretty light and precise rider and I'm nearly 4 stone heavier and ride the fork alot more. As a result, I found them the be a little squirrelly on the front and they didn't have quite the edge tread for my riding style. I've since moved onto something else.
They are excellent tyres if you only ever want to run one set all year round though.
Had a couple on the rear of two bikes for most the winter & they've been great,good grip & roll well.Just swopped one of them to the front of my rigid bike & been very impressed with it.Probably the best cheap "all round tyre" that I've tried tbh & I've tried a lot !