Folding Tyres- any good?

Rob Somerset

Ive always bought the traditional wire beaded clincher tyres to date. Is there any disadvantages or advantage of using the folding type. ? ( excluding that they are easy to mail or hang on a display stand in a shop!)
Rob

redddraggon

Loads lighter, sometimes easier to fit. I haven't used old fashioned wire beaded tyres for years, use exclusively folding tyres these days.

maddog 2

weight and price. Wire are heavy and cheap.

I also haven't used wire for ages.

Mettan

Yep, go Folding - high-performance, light and reliable.

markos1963

Folding tyres are great, especially when out on the road and you get a flat, much quicker to change, my Lithiams can be changed with no levers. Only downside is if you have a high speed blowout as the tyre is more likely to come off the rim but this is very rare anyway.