tyre width, 2.2 or 2.4

buying some mountain king ii ust but not sure on what size, bike is a cotic hemlock, using them for commute to work, mix of on and off road, off road is nothing special, bridle paths, fire roads and some forest with is fast and hard packed in summer and a complete bog in the winter. I have 2.2 wire bead mk now and they come up slightly small, but is a 2.4 overkill for what I need? I google this and it seems all conti tyres come up smaller than spec?
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OP needs something lightweight and fast rolling in my opinion.
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Can you give details of the softer compound of MK2 2.4 tyres, I understood it's only the pro tection and race sport that are black chili.
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You can have a hard black chilli, or a soft black chilli.
Conti don't really offer various compound choices on their high end tyre, they instead have a tyre intended for XC, and a tyre intended for freeriding, a tyre meant for wet, a tyre meant for dry, and so on. They pre-select the right tyre compound for the job, so a narrower XC-ish tyre is harder than a big fat grippy freeride tyre.
So a standard 2.4 Mountain King 2 will be softer than a standard 2.2 Mountain King 2, neither being race sport or pro-tection (black chili).
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For what it's worth, I don't really rate Conti's budget tyres, but I do like their high end range, although they're overpriced.
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They are quite reasonable on Bikediscount.de at the moment. I just got a pair of 2.2" Black Chilli Rubber Queens for £28 each. I certainly wouldn't buy them at full price.
My new bike came with the OE wire bead Mountain King 2.2s - after reading and hearing so many bad reports about them I took 'em straight off (those wire beads put up a fight) and replaced 'em with Team Issue XR3 2.2s (for £20 each) - liking them so far, although I did debate going for the 2.35 for the front. My 2.2s measure pretty much the same as the Conti 2.2s, give or take a couple of mm.
Is that asking whether I rode on the OE Contis? If so, no I didn't - figured I'd rather take them off unused and maybe get £20 for the pair, rather than use them for a bit then take them off and bin them after the first time they saw a wet trail and scared me, like everyone else seems to.
Best to form your own conclusions on something.
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I don't know if anyone does want to buy them - haven't tried selling them yet, they're leant against my half stripped poorly Speed Triple currently (but people will buy any old shite if it's cheap enough). I had thought I might keep them and put them back on if/when I sell the bike, but I don't fancy wrestling with those wire beads again. I do form my own conclusions, and I'd concluded from the fact that nobody has a good word to say about the OE wired Mountain Kings that I was better replacing them with something better that I knew I liked, especially when they were barely more than half RRP. My old motorcycling partner in crime has the same bike, which came on the same Contis, and one wet ride was enough to have him binning his - they were "scarily bad". Compared to the cost of the whole bike, £40 for some rubber that I have confidence in isn't much to pay (especially when you're used to a pair of tyres costing £200).
No, that's not what I said at all (but as usual you just see what you want to see, and in your world any viewpoint that differs from yours is automatically wrong anyway).
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