New tyres roll nice but look awfully out of place

[cirian75]

Got Vittoria Voyager Hypers 700c 37's fitted to my Cube 29er for commuting.

It rolls very well and and is good on the road.

but it looks bloody awful to me, some may not be bothered by it. :/

So have been looking at the schwalbe Balloon's, the Big Apple/Big Ben in a 700c 50 (28-2.0)


what are peoples experiences of them?

[AC43]

cirian75 said:

Got Vittoria Voyager Hypers 700c 37's fitted to my Cube 29er for commuting.

It rolls very well and and is good on the road.

but it looks bloody awful to me, some may not be bothered by it. :/

So have been looking at the schwalbe Balloon's, the Big Apple/Big Ben in a 700c 50 (28-2.0)


what are peoples experiences of them?

Schwalbe Big Apples are truly awful things.

They lasted a couple of weeks before I binned them for some Conti's (will have to look to see which ones later)

[MadDad]

Give it a few weeks when the winter weather set in and you will be thankful of a pair of tyres that go around corners in the wet and don't slide about under braking! As for what they look like they will be so covered in road gunk you won't care!

If you are happy with the current ones and they work why change them?

[cirian75]

I think it's just the look, chunky 29er with skinny tyres.

Edited by cirian75 on Wednesday 30th September 15:39