Running spesh ground control 3.0 on mine, not had a puncture yet, although when the weather changes a bit I move to my other bike will be going tubeless, just need some down time for a bit.

YOur pressures are too low. Is the 20psi the tyre companies recommendation or internet experts.

If yo get pinch flats your pressures are too low for the type of riding / rider you are.

Maxxis WT tyres are the only ones I have found that come close to being ‘full strength’ but wider than normal. You’ll loose a fair chunk of volume mind, but they are both wider and taller than normal tyres, with a proper shape rather than too square when you fit them on big rims. Not tried them on bigger than 35mm internal, but you should be fine up to 40 – 45 I would imagine before they get a bit weird.

i think its a combination of:

thin sidewalls to keep the weight down, (a plus tyre built to the same construction as a normal tyre would be about twice the weight),

the fact low-ish pressure feel right on the trail in terms of grip and rolling,

higher pressures feel skittish and pogo like on a plus tyre.

the nature of tyre acting as an effectively very linear air spring. once you hit it hard, there is a very little resistance to it bottoming out on the rim and a snakebite is almost certain.

I think the fact that almost no-one uses them competitively speak volumes.

Vee Tire Crown Gem… grippy and robust.

Their whole range is worth a look.

Just trying out a set of Apex-lined 27.5 Nobby Nics. In theory, they should be fairly tough.

About to install a set of Huck Norris on my 29+ 120tpi Dirt Wizards to reduce pinches too.

All tubeless

Thing is, sure you can add pressure to reduce pinch flats. But Plus is a bit like fat, you want low pressure to make it work. A hard Plus tyre that isn’t giving you the extra splodge and conformity and contact patch isn’t really working. So IMO that’s not the answer, you need a solution that lets you use the pressures you want or you might as well not bother.

Like I said above, the WTB TCS Tough casing Ranger works. I run it at 15psi on the rear of a hardtail. In the Peak District. I’m not a manically aggressive rider, but but it’s rocky round here and I was pinch-flatting pretty much every other ride with other 650b+ tyres. It’s slightly more sluggish feeling than a lighter tyre, it weighs a claimed 1025g compared to 783g for the TCS Light version, but it seems to do what it says on the can and is a nice all-round rear tyre at least.

After wasting months of my life wrestling other tyres off a WTB Scraper rimmed wheel, it’s a compromise happy to embrace. There’s a whole substantial thread on this topic:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/275-28-tyres-anything-with-a-sidewall-not-made-of-cheese

Your next question will be along the lines of ‘which 650b+ tyre for winter mud’ – there’s a thread on that too:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-275-plus-tyres-for-wintermud

The answer to question one and question two aren’t necessarily compatible though… I still think Pro Core is probably the very expensive answer. 😐

I’ve heard good reports about the Surly Dirt Wizards 27.5+ x 3.0.

Yes but it’s probably a bit too tight when there’s actually any real mud.