Winter Rear Tyre

aguesty1
aguesty1 Posts: 97
edited October 2009 in MTB buying advice
Hi all,

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good winter tyre (rear) that will handle well in the true british winter. I'm fullyb aware that the current tyre is getting clogged and not shedding the mud so I'm losing traction.

Thanks

Andy

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  • jayson
    jayson Posts: 4,606
    Trailrakers are rated highly by a lot of people, not used them myself yet but i may give them a try if my mountain kings dont hold up in the mud.
    Remedy

    Merida

    Austria 2012
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    panaracer trail rakers and bontraged mud x. both brilliant for mud.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    from the sounds of it, 1.95" trailrakers...
    Neeermad
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  • birchy
    birchy Posts: 309
    i find the 2.1's better
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    depends on the stickiness of the mud tbh. We have really sticky mud, so the thinner the tyre the more clearance you end up with!
    Neeermad
    Carbon 456
    456 lefty
    Pompino
    White Inbred
  • birchy
    birchy Posts: 309
    yea but they do shed mud fairly well and i find that they are a fairly 'small' 2.1
    Plus i ride with fairly big tyres in the summer (mountain kings 2.4s) so i still like a bit of tyre under me.
    Everyones different but all in all 1.95 or 2.1 the trailraker is a mint tyre be using them the last 3 winters now :)
  • Gwaredd
    Gwaredd Posts: 251
    First ride on the 2.1 trailrakers last night. After reading some of the reviews, I was expecting these tyres to either grip like shit to a blanket or it would be like riding Bambi on an ice rink.

    Well, I'm pleased to report that they do exactly what it says on the tin. They grip in mud. Out on the dry stuff (gravel fire roads) they do seem a bit fidgety, especially up front, but this is purely down to the large nobles. For general riding, they grip fine & didn't spit me off at the first corner like so many reviewers seemed to think they would. Frankly, if you're riding a mud tyre on gravel that hard, you deserve to come off.

    Where these tyres really excel, is in the deep 4x4 ruts. Normal tyres have grip on the outer edges & these can grab the edge of the rut & pull you off (ooer!) Because the trailrakers don't have any, they just follow the line of the rut & if you do drift into the edges, you just roll off the edge of they smooth tyre & back onto your line.

    Oh, & don't worry about the 2.1 size being too wide. It's actually very narrow (far narrower than my 1.95 Tiogas)

    So far, so good!
    Cheers,

    Gwaredd

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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Gwaredd wrote:
    Where these tyres really excel, is in the deep 4x4 ruts. Normal tyres have grip on the outer edges & these can grab the edge of the rut & pull you off (ooer!) Because the trailrakers don't have any, they just follow the line of the rut & if you do drift into the edges, you just roll off the edge of they smooth tyre & back onto your line.

    Sounds good right enough, til you want to get out the rut and the wheels tramline along it and you end up on your face :wink:
    Uncompromising extremist
  • birchy
    birchy Posts: 309
    ah but if you pop the front wheel up out of the rut it gives the back tyre enough angle to bite and pull itself up too :wink:
  • steelo
    steelo Posts: 542
    Definitely a +1 for the trailrakers for really dirty conditions.

    I've got a pair fitted to my EX8 at the moment, but i'm looking for some decent XC grippy tyres for the 'not-quite-as-muddy-as-last-week' scenario. Thinking about pana Fire XC Pro's or some Kenda Nevegals.
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    Trek Fuel EX8 '09
  • pgodwin
    pgodwin Posts: 17
    Trailrakers sound like their pretty good, will have to look at them next time i go to replace.

    I am using Hutchinson Enduro fitted to my ex8 and been very good. They got a good review in Mountain Bike Mag few months ago as an overall good trail tyre. They are a 2.35 but come up smaller then 2.30

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