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I know this is a bit like 'what oil for my car', but forgive me....
I've got a 26" Cube LTD MTB, which I got (I think) in 2014. Because kids, house project, general life stuff etc. it hasn't have that much use and is in really good nick. However, I put two new inner tubes on when I got it out recently, only for the front to immediately develop a slow punture.
As the tyres are ancient anyway, I was thinking of changing those.
The current tyres are an off-road tyre, not aggressively so. My planned riding is local bike trails and these have been OK up until now.
What's the current thinking on tyres? I looked on Chain Reaction recently and the choice was bewildering!
I've got a 26" Cube LTD MTB, which I got (I think) in 2014. Because kids, house project, general life stuff etc. it hasn't have that much use and is in really good nick. However, I put two new inner tubes on when I got it out recently, only for the front to immediately develop a slow punture.
As the tyres are ancient anyway, I was thinking of changing those.
The current tyres are an off-road tyre, not aggressively so. My planned riding is local bike trails and these have been OK up until now.
What's the current thinking on tyres? I looked on Chain Reaction recently and the choice was bewildering!
Still plenty of older kids bikes in 26" even if most MTBers have moved on.
Something like https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/schwalbe-black... would be fine for mixed use.
Something like https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/schwalbe-tough... for more off-road use.
Something like https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/schwalbe-black... would be fine for mixed use.
Something like https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/schwalbe-tough... for more off-road use.
Thanks - that's helpful - the first ones are more or less what it came with.
cml24 said:
What exactly are the current ones, will make it easier to find something similar with that info.
There is lots less choice in 26" now. Took me a while to find something decent.
My current ones are as above - I was really asking as it appears that the bikes have moved on a bit since I bought mine, and people talk about tubless tyres and goop that you fill tyres with, and other tyres that are more puncture resistant etc. So I'd sort of thought that tyres would have similarly moved on perhaps.There is lots less choice in 26" now. Took me a while to find something decent.
tubeless are great if you have all the kit and patience to set up. Otherwise they can be a pain in the @rse
I worked in a bikeshop in my teens so always assume i can do everything and over the years been able to service suspension forks, gears etc with some patience and recourse to a YT vid or two for anything new fangled and funky like rear suspension.
Got an ebike with tubeless and "goop" last year. First flat, thought, "I'll fix that - how hard can it be?"
Three hours later, half a drum of goop, strained fingers and a back yard that looked like i had done the unspeakable over it in broad daylight without a copy of Readers Wives in sight i gave up and went to my LBS*
* after changing my jeans for ones not covered in "goop" stains. "Honest love its this weird stuff that goes in your tyres" went the conversation with a sceptical looking Mrs Cavey!
I worked in a bikeshop in my teens so always assume i can do everything and over the years been able to service suspension forks, gears etc with some patience and recourse to a YT vid or two for anything new fangled and funky like rear suspension.
Got an ebike with tubeless and "goop" last year. First flat, thought, "I'll fix that - how hard can it be?"
Three hours later, half a drum of goop, strained fingers and a back yard that looked like i had done the unspeakable over it in broad daylight without a copy of Readers Wives in sight i gave up and went to my LBS*
* after changing my jeans for ones not covered in "goop" stains. "Honest love its this weird stuff that goes in your tyres" went the conversation with a sceptical looking Mrs Cavey!
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