Mud tyres

lostboysaint

Mud X or Trailraker. Both roll much faster, are narrower to cut through and get grip and are pretty much the standard fitting for most XC/trail riders locally.

hainman

how are conti barons for mud??

Northwind

hainman wrote:

how are conti barons for mud??

Fantastic, in black chili. But you've got to understand what you're getting- a lot of traditional mud tyres like Mud X etc are very much XC muds- they roll pretty quick, they're light, etc. The Baron's definately a trail mud- it rolls like a big fat sticky trail tyre, and it's not light.

So if you want something to stick on your 6 inch full suss and go enduro racing at innerleithen in January or something like that, Baron, ridiculously good. But if you want to go on a long XC ride in mixed terrain, well, it might be too much.

The killer edge it has is really that though it's very good at mud, it doesn't suck at anything. Whereas most mud tyres suck at at least one thing. You could use one on the front of a big bike and it'll not grip quite as well in the dry as a dry-specific tyre, and it'll roll slower, but it'll still do the job. Try that with a Mud X and you'll probably crash, with a Trailraker your legs will unscrew and fall off, with a Swampthing maybe both.

So in short- fantastic. Only tyre I recommend without any reservations.