Schwalbe tyres - cheapest place to buy them?

ashleymp777

Hi there

As per the title, my tyres are looking a little warn so am on the look out for a new set (Raching ralph/nobby nic). Where's the cheapest place on the net to buy them? CRC/Wiggle don't seem particularly cheap.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Ash

cat_with_no_tail

Depends.

I use nextdaytyres.com because they're pretty cheap and are lightning fast with delivery.
Merlin and On-one often have very good deals on, although be careful if you are specifically after this years model, they sometimes have older versions.
Outright cheapest would probably be one of the German sites though.

cooldad

Google is your friend

ashleymp777

Not always. I dont have that much time and I find to get the best bargins takes ages to trawl through Google. Will try planet x and Merlin

largephil

Have a look on the on-one web site, they usually have good deals on Schwalbe

JezV

I just bought a Rocket Ron and a Racing Ralph from bike-discount.de, both 2.25 Evo snakeskin spec. Total cost £63 inc delivery. Ordered Sunday, delivered UK Weds.

ianrams

Cat With No Tail wrote:

Depends.

I use nextdaytyres.com because they're pretty cheap and are lightning fast with delivery.

+1 for next day tyres. I ordered a pair of Nobby Nics last Thursday at 1200 and they were with me Friday at 1200.

davewalsh

I've used both bike-discount.de and nextdaytyres.com and been pleased with both. bike-discount are slightly cheaper and stock the Nobby Nic in Trailstar compound if that's what you want.

njee20

I use ActionSports.de, very good.

The Rookie

Not enough time to google, but expect us to have the time to do it for you? You haven't even said what Schwalbe tyres you want, City Jets are good value at Halfords.

Simon

njee20

You haven't even said what Schwalbe tyres you want,

Err...

am on the look out for a new set (Raching ralph/nobby nic).

t0pc4t

as someone said, on one have some great deals at the moment, got some 2.25 nics for £22 each the other week

njee20

Are they not Performance ones rather than Evo?

bails87

Yep, the Evos are out of stock.

cooldad

OP appears to be too busy to come back here and thank all you really helpful guys, even though he's online at the moment.

Teach a man to fish etc....

njee20

Incidentally if you're after 2.1"s I'll have some Ralphs to sell in the next week or so. Brand new pukka 2011 Tubeless Ready Pace Star jobbies.

heavy_rat

There's so many variatons of Schwalbe tyres. Evo, Snakeskin, Pacestar, Performance.

Anyone able to explain the differences?

bails87

It's probably on the Schwalbe site.

But Pacestar = slightly harder/faster rolling rubber
Trailstar/Triplestar is a triple compound blend, with softer edges. Some tyres come in a pair, with a pacestar for the back and trailstar for the front.

Snakeskin is a tougher sidewall. So any tyre could have that, and it doesn't affect the compund.

I think Performance is the cheapo bog standard version.

heavy_rat

thanks for that

what are the performance ones like puncture wise?

i've got larsen tts on the rear of my bikes and i get a puncture every other ride

njee20

Trailstar/Triplestar is a triple compound blend, with softer edges. Some tyres come in a pair, with a pacestar for the back and trailstar for the front.

Sort of.

Performance use the 'ORC' compound, they're heavier and slightly tougher than the Evos, still reasonable though, a good bet.

The top end ones use the lighter (and more fragile) Evo carcass. Pre-2011 tyres were Triple Nano which used 3 different compounds. Non tubeless ready beads (but they worked very well as tubeless).

From 2011 they are still triple compound, but now called Pacestar (for the XC biased tyres), Trailstar (for the ones in the middle), Gatestar (for 4x) and Vertstar (for full on DH tyres). They all have tubeless ready beads.

There are different carcasses within that, for example the Ralph and Nic are a heavier/tougher carcass than the Ron/Dan/Fred.

Snakeskin is a reinforced sidewall.

Double Defence is a reinforced carcass and sidewall.