All mountain fun tyres

[firemunki]

Got the mtb out for the 1st time in years on Saturday. The tyres are not good, she was ridden on the road lots prior to taking up climbing so need some new ones. But having been out of the scene for ages I have no idea what are good any more.

Need to be 26inch (she's 10 years old now!) and good for everything with an emphasis on having fun pointing downwards.

[Mr Gearchange]

Specialised Purgatory control are very good IME

[vwsurfbum]

get a Conti Mountain king for the rear and a trail king for the front, good enough for most things and roll ok.

[missing the VR6]

I'd recommend Continental Trail Kings (formerly Rubber Queens) and suggest you avoid Schwalbe Nobby Nics.
My mate rates his Maxxis Minions and High Rollers, but also has Conti's like mine on his other bike.

[Pablo16v]

Mr Gearchange said:

Specialised Purgatory control are very good IME

Can’t disagree with that. I had a pair on my old Ragley Blue Pig hardtail and they coped with just about everything……...

……..and welcome to the biggest dilemma in modern mountain biking….tyre choice. There’s a lot of good tyres out there nowadays so it can be a bit of a minefield finding ones that suit, but luckily there’s a few well regarded all-rounders…….

As above, Specialized Purgatory. Also look at Schwalbe Hans Dampf (with softer Trailstar compound front and harder Pacestar compound rear), Schwalbe Fat Alberts are good too by all accounts too, and there’s the Maxxis High Rollers, which have been around forever, but the new version gets decent reviews.

[gradeA]

I'll vote for Specialized tyres too - Butcher/Purgatory combo.

[Ian_sUK]

gradeA said:

I'll vote for Specialized tyres too - Butcher/Purgatory combo.

I'm also running this combo, it comes on the Specialized Enduro as standard.

[joema]

Perfect for our uk winters, not. I swapped to maxxis HR IIs anyway.

Purgatorys are a good all round shout.

[richardxjr]

Cheap but good option, On One Chunkey Monkey Trail Extreme 2.4 front, Smorgasbord 2.2 (I think) back.

[Hobzy]

Hans Dampfs for me - most predictable tyre I've used - tried lots of the others before but this one seems to just nail it for me. Soft compound on the front. Even better tubeless.

[duff]

I run a chunky tyre up front and something faster on the rear. Hans Dampf, Fat Albert, High Roller or Purgatory have all worked well for me on the front and Maxxis Crossmark, Racing Ralph and Ardent Race on the rear.