Sorry...
700c tyres for a cx'y commutey fireroad starship miler...
I've been very happy with x35 Conti Cyclocross Race tyres - nice and grippy/fast but wear quite quickly on hard surfaces and act like magnets for the swarf/turnings the place over the car park seems to be losing recently. 26er knobblies have never punctured here. Knobblies here are FireXC pros, Captains, Razers, Smorgasbords etc.
I was about to go for Maxxis Raze's (good price at That Irish webshop). I'm getting a bit sick of digging sharp drill swarf out of tyres and patching tubes though - and I think they're going to get just as badly shrapnelled.
So this is where my question comes in: cheap, tough and grippy (I know, pick two..) probs with commuting bias as I'm fairly happy with off road choices. Cross trail/Nimbus or something? Don't really want much wider than x35...
Maxxis Raze I can vouch for. I don't think I've punctured more that a handful of times in 3-4 years (still on the same front tyre 😯 ). The rear is tyre number 2 - in that time - it is bald as a coot now, but still seems to roll okay. Front still has nobbles after ~10k miles.
10000 miles and still has tread!!!!!
That's much harder wearing than I thought. Admittedly the Conti's might have lasted longer if I hadn't run them on Tarmac/fire road for several hundred miles at about 45psi... Rear has that 'slick in the middle knobs on the edges' thing going on now ... (Was new about two months ago)
Ok, maybe the Razes will suffice then. I thought I was going to need nasty hard boring hybrid-ish tyres but if Razes work then me happy!