Quick poll: Changing tyres. Do people really bother? Seriously? – Page 2 – Bike Forum

binners · 2011-09-07T12:53:42Z

There seems to be two camps here, easily recognisable by the tediously regular "what tyres for..." threads. 1. People who give a **** 2. People who don't I fall unashamedly into the latter camp. I stick a pair of half-decent tyres on (Maxxis Advantage at the moment) and they're not getting changed until they're worn to a degree where they're dangerous. They will then be replaced with the same, or something similar. They're black rubber things that go on your rims. And like a EDF member thinks about our ethnic population; they all look the same anyway I know people go on about the relative merits of various bits of round rubber. I tend to not bother with these threads as it all seems like a lot of guff to me. So... a serious question: Are there really people out there (on here) who have a selection of tyres, and can honestly be arsed to change them depending on conditions or particular destinations?

randomjeremy

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barons for dh, rqs for everything else

Posted : 07/09/2011 9:47 pm

TandemJeremy

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I am a serial tyre changer - I put on the tyres for the type of riding. Much of my locval riding involves a 20 mile round trip to get to the trails so I want something fast rolling for that. Take the tandem to north England and ride the rocky trails there I want big DH tyres - but they are too slow for other circumstances.

So rather than riding a differnt bike I ride the same one and swap the tyres.

Posted : 07/09/2011 10:04 pm

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Yep - have loads of sets which gets used as required - everything from tacky DH tyres for the Alps to Furious Freds for racing to Mud Sharks etc...

Posted : 07/09/2011 10:21 pm

mrbump

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x.c/trail :same tyres all year
d.h : change tyres to suit the conditions

Posted : 07/09/2011 10:41 pm

monotokpoint

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I get my tyres changed for me

Posted : 07/09/2011 11:42 pm

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[Closed] Quick poll: Changing tyres. Do people really bother? Seriously?