Lightweight tyres ?

weeksy59
weeksy59 Posts: 2,606
edited January 2010 in MTB buying advice
Which are classed as 'light' for XC ?

It's quite a long list of potential rubber to scroll through to find out specific weights.
Salsa Spearfish 29er
http://superdukeforum.forumatic.com/index.php

Comments

  • John Moore
    John Moore Posts: 580
    Crows

    http://www.mtbr.com/cat/tires-and-wheel ... 64crx.aspx

    http://www.notubes.com/rims.php?cPath=42_45
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Schwalbe Rocket Ron take a lot of beating, mine are 395 and 400g for 2.1", lots of tread (certainly far more than the Crows!), work really well tubeless too.

    If it's dry, a Furious Fred on the back, very fast and only 295g.
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    Sauserwind S-Works 495g or Control 520g
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    edited January 2010
    Never seen any lighter than Maxxis Maxlite 310's. Notubes Crow/Raven and the Maxlites are only really any use in very dry hardpack conditions and wont last very long. Anything around 500g is classed as light..sub 450g you're looking at race only or weight weenies...they tend to have very thin sidewalls.
    ANTHEM X
    Youth
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Maxxlite 285s are literally THE lightest you can buy, but they're of no use whatsoever! Maxxlite 310s are bearly any better, if you want something of that ilk then the Furious Fred is lighter and grippier.

    Still recommend the Ron if you actually want to use your bike though.
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    edited January 2010
    And it depends if you want to run them standard with tubes or tubeless..light useable tyre and tube is about the same as a lightweight tubeless ready tyre. What set up you got at the moment weeksy?
    ANTHEM X
    Youth
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Again the Schwalbe's shine, Furious Freds and Rocket Rons inflate with a track pump and hold air perfectly, I used them most of the summer without any punctures out riding. A couple of times I went to the bike and the tyre was flat, but it had always sealed when I inflated the tyre.
  • weeksy59
    weeksy59 Posts: 2,606
    stu8975 wrote:
    And it depends if you want to run them standard with tubes or tubeless..light useable tyre and tube is about the same as a lightweight tubeless ready tyre. What set up you got at the moment weeksy?

    Running standard tubes. Took off a pair of Hutchinsons today and fitted a pair of off the crate Specialized Fast tracks. Mostly because they're the only tyres apart from a Nobby Nic/Ralph combo that i've ever got on with.
    Although the Ralph did explode with a cracking noise :)

    Can't see me switching to tubeless in the forseeable future.

    I've just bought a Racing Ralph on ebay thanks to your recommendations. Will get a Ron later as well.
    Salsa Spearfish 29er
    http://superdukeforum.forumatic.com/index.php
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    The schwalbes ive used (both UST versions) have been sh$t..cost an arm 'n' leg and poor puncture protection..Ralphs and Ron's....last 2 pair have been both Spesh 2 bliss control versions...Lk's (512g/519g) and currently Sausagewinds (484g/493g)...no punctuers at all.....and cost the same for a pair as it did for 1 schwalbe and are around 150g each lighter. I wont be using schwalbes again.
    ANTHEM X
    Youth
  • salsarider79
    salsarider79 Posts: 828
    My old 26er MTB had Conti Speed Kings Supersonic 2.1" which were 400g each, never punctured, always fast. It was me that was usless and slow...
    jedster wrote:
    Just off to contemplate my own mortality and inevitable descent into decrepedness.
    FCN 3 or 4 on road depending on clothing
    FCN 8 off road because I'm too old to go racing around.
  • strodey
    strodey Posts: 481
    been using panaracer razer xc for 2 years, fantastic and super light, only one pucture too!
    Carbon is a mans best freind

Categories