26 inch road tyres for a London commute

repurr
repurr Posts: 8
edited July 2014 in Road buying advice
Hi,

Looking to replace my 26 inch road tyres with some bombproof ones and looking for 1.5 or narrower ones. The Continental Gatorskilns look good as do the Schwalbe Duranos.

Anybody got any others they've used and worth looking at.

Thanks

R

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  • jumbosausage
    jumbosausage Posts: 77
    Nothing tougher than a Schwable marathon plus. Heavy but they roll along just fine
  • holiver
    holiver Posts: 729
    I used Continental Sport Contact on my Scandal when commuting in London. The 1.6" was ideal - I did use the narrower version too, but they were slower and less comfortable.
    2013 Kinesis Racelight T2
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    jumbosausage wrote:
    Nothing tougher than a Schwable marathon plus. Heavy but they roll along just fine


    Ditto.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    holiver wrote:
    I used Continental Sport Contact on my Scandal when commuting in London. The 1.6" was ideal - I did use the narrower version too, but they were slower and less comfortable.

    Fastest tyres in UK/Commonwealth... are they not the ones Guy Martin used for his landspeed record?
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