Morning. Looking to replace the tyres on my sons bike, currently 26″ Smart Sams front and rear which don’t appear to be that great on slippery sections of the trail. Not looking to go too expensive so looking mid range around £30 ish, any suggestions appreciated.

I’ve been out of the loop a while but I’ve always used specialized tyres. £30ish for the decent ones.

There’s a few options of tread patterns depends how gnar you want, control for lighter weight and GRid for tougher casing.

Check the specialized website some tyres are £15-16 on clearance at the moment

Good call Wiggles – Purgatory in 26 X 2.3 are £15! Can’t go wrong, especially on a kids bike
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Butcher front (£16), Pergatory rear (£15) – is a combo people go for I think.

I was going to suggest that a lot of the Schwalbe budget compound tyres aren’t as bad as I thought they would be. But Purgatorys are great all round tyres.

Bought some spesh tyres myself, with those prices. Only problem accidentally ordered one in 27.5 when I wanted a 29er. Doh!

DezB

Good call Wiggles – Purgatory in 26 X 2.3 are £15! Can’t go wrong, especially on a kids bike

Unfortunately out of stock in 26 size…

I got some Conti X Kings & Mountain Kings(other types available) off the ‘Bay in the ‘not Black Chilli’ compound and have been really impressed – touch, lasting and yet not lacking in grip. BC is clearly grippier, but these were £20 an end which seems very reasonable.

Maxxis have a few on sale: https://shop.maxxis.co.uk/collections/sale?gf_76716=Rim%20Size%3A26&sort_by=price-ascending

awesome, thanks

The Vittoria tyres you get from Planet X are good and not too £££s

Unfortunately out of stock in 26 size…

Well they weren’t, but they were selling out of stuff as I was looking. Had some gloves (£6!) in my basket, by the time I checked out, they were sold out

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From the classifieds – these are good tyres, I run them all the year round (no affiliation btw)

Edit – not sure that link works – tyres-26×2-0-bontrager-mud-x-team-pair/ is what you’re looking for

Good call Wiggles – Purgatory in 26 X 2.3 are £15! Can’t go wrong, especially on a kids bike
here

Butcher front (£16), Pergatory rear (£15) – is a combo people go for I think.

I have those 2 tyres if you want them – bought (in error) from Specialized a couple of weeks ago, still in the boxes unopened. £30 for the pair + whatever it costs to post them.