[Closed] What tyres for MTB marathons?

I guess it sort of depends where the marathon is really. I like Ralphs, but if it's a bit of a rocky marathon you might suffer with problems with sidewall strength. Happened to me on a welsh event.

Before I opened the thread I was thinking Rocket Rons. I don't know wether to replace my aging Racing Ralphs with Rons.

Builth Wells.... 🙂

ralph back, nobby nic front, always works a treat for me. 2.1 rear 2.25 front for rocky events, 2.1 all round for smooth,1.8 nics front and rear for muddy choss

speedking supersonics are very fast but you need to keep them at a high pressure as per manufacturer specs or they get very squirmy. Alot of the bad press I've seen on them was as a result of running low pressures.

On the rocks Ralphs both ends, sod the Nic, unless it's muddy they're not advtangeous.

If it's not rocky (I know Builth Wells is, but general advice...) the Rons are good, no real point in mixing Rons with Ralphs/Nics though IMO!

I've run 2.1 NN's and UST RR's in the past, both tubeless. I like the extra 'security' of UST's for long days, and find the weight (while nearly 200g an end) is manageable.

Conversely apart from Mud Xs in deepest winter all I've used is Schwalbe tyres for about 3 years and I've never had a puncture, running all of them tubeless, none UST. That includes countless trips to Cwmcarn, Afan, CyB etc etc.

Same as njee, but I frequently mix and match Rons, Nics, Ralphs, and Freds.

Same here njee20 never punctured a Racing Ralph since using them from about 2005. I think they'd be fine for Builth, I don't actually recal much in the way of rocky sections?
For me I only have two events that might need more tread than the Racing Ralphs, just two short very off camber xc races.
Also I might try the 700c versions for this years cross season.

I use 2.1 High Rollerss - being quite narrow they work surprisingly well in really bad mud too! Got really swampy at the CLIC24 so switched to trailrakers and lap times didn't change (but it was more tiring) so stuck the HR back on...

I used Larsen TT's in 2.00" x 70a flavour last year. Very low rolling resistance in the dry, never got to use them in the wet.

Hi mate might sound daft but how fast are you? My reasoning is, if your in the first 100 or so the trail is usually good you can find grip with faster rolling tyres cross marks etc .you get in the middle and back and its a bog and something like fire xc pros com into their own as a intermedate tyre as the trail is well chewed up by the time you get there and you make up time in the single track bits etc. IMHO of course

PS am a fire xc near the middle type of guy!! 😛

crossmarks for me...

i find NNs a bit too pressure sensitive for my liking - i've not tried RRs though.

crossmarks are, imo, fantastic tyres.