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I have been running 2.2 BC RQ's for a few years now and love them, but do find the side walls a bit delicate and porous when run tubeless. Been thinking about some 2.25 Evo snakeskin Fat Alberts. No weight penalty, but side walls maybe tougher. Anybody compared the two ?
I've run both and to be perfectly honest there wasn't much between them as both were good all rounders with similar levels of grip although the RQ's possibly had more grip on wet off-camber slab rock.
I haven't had any sidewall issues with my RQ's and although the Snakeskin sidewall does feel a little bit tougher I still managed to slash one last summer, but having said that I've been running Fat Alberts for years and that was the only time a sidewall went.
Cheers yetiman....any other users of both 😕
Fat Albert (new design) is my favourite 26er tyre. Sadly, it lasted less than one dry season as the knobs started to rip off on the edges, and then it turned into a horrid squirmy, unpredictable thing of horror.
I liked RQ's too, but the sidewalls were too weedy.
Currently, I'm using Hans dampfs, which are tougher than fat alberts but heavier and grip nearly as well.