I need some help please. I need to replace my tires on my Mtn. bike but I have no idea what I should buy. I don't do anything major, just trail riding and stuff. I went to a shop and I was looking at $18 tires and they recommended $35 tires. What is a good tire (front and rear)? I need 26x2.1 or I can buy new tubes if a different size is recommended. Thanks.
How much riding do you do and what type of terrain?
On my downhill bike I have 2.5 Arrow Racing downhill tires front and back. On my freeride bike, I have 2.5 front and 2.35 back Specialized downhill tires.
As far as places to buy, check out www.jensonusa.com. I have a pair of used IRC Kujos you can have, just pay for shipping. They are 2.35 and 2.25 wide tires. Used for about 1 season.
Tioga Factory DH 2.1s all the way! I have a pair on each of my bikes and they are the best tires all around. Awesome looking and the performance can't be beat. There is no contest in sand or mud. Check Price Point, Universal Cycle, and SuperGo for the best price. The last price I bought them for was $25 each tire.
Thanks Mike. Very little riding and basic trails, nothing to the extent of riding that you do. I'll pass on the Kujos. However, thanks very much for the offer. The $35 tires are "foldable", why in the heck would you want to fold a tire? Is that why it's more expensive?
Originally posted by justagirl Tioga Factory DH 2.1s all the way! I have a pair on each of my bikes and they are the best tires all around. Awesome looking and the performance can't be beat. There is no contest in sand or mud. Check Price Point, Universal Cycle, and SuperGo for the best price. The last price I bought them for was $25 each tire.
Kevlar bead tires, road and mountain, were first introduced as "foldable" because they were so flexible they could be rolled or *folded* into a small package and carried more conveniently on the ride compared to wire bead tires which can only be twisted into thirds without damage. Maybe the foldable tires would be useful for long distance cross-country touring far from the madding crowds, etc., just like your kin, the elder Boone.
Kevlar has ~7 times the tensile strength of steel on a per weight basis. Current Kevlar bead tires are lighter and cost more than their wire bead counterparts.
Typically everyone has their favorite tire for their particular riding style, bike, and local conditions, etc. Typically run Ritchey WCS Z-Max 2.35 Megabites skinwalls with Air-B butyl-latex presta tubes here in the mountains & desert, fire roads, hard dirt, rock, sand, loose gravel, etc.; no mud, no suspension!
If your demands are few and you ride the streets a lot too, look for lower profile knobs and narrower tires, wire beads for cost savings. Install new tubes while you're at it. Dust baby powder on the tubes and inside the tire casing for ease of installation.
If nothing else, get a tire you like the looks of!
Originally posted by justagirl Tioga Factory DH 2.1s all the way! I have a pair on each of my bikes and they are the best tires all around. Awesome looking and the performance can't be beat. There is no contest in sand or mud. Check Price Point, Universal Cycle, and SuperGo for the best price. The last price I bought them for was $25 each tire.
My friend had a bad experience with Tioga tires and becuase of that, I'll never go with them but, to each their own. Anyways, we were at Northstar At Tahoe and we were riding the Karpiel trail and got 3 flats on the way down. Tire pressure was good and the rim was fine. He changed the tires and no flats.
I can almost guarentee that your friends flats were related to tire pressure. Flats are almost always attributed to tire pressure unless you are riding through cacti type plants. I rode these tire 5 days a week, 30 miles a day in Marquette, Michigan on some of the rockiest trails you can imagine for 3 years and never had a flat. These trails are covered with loose sharp shale, taconite, and iron ore slag. I put a hole to the bone in my knee on these trails, but never my Tioga tires. I had flats on some IRC Missiles, but that was because I was running very low pressure and had two "snake-bite" flats on one day. I used to race expert/pro class cross country and have never had a flat with any type of tire during a race, including my junky Specialized Team Control/Team Master. Freeriding is another story.
That's what we thought. After each flat, the tire pressure was increased. Each time he got a flat. The tires were the Tioga Factory DH 2.5's. With the new tire he ran the same before the flats and had no problems. Could've just been a faulty tire.
2.5s! Holy cow, what kind of bike and fork was he on? Both front and rear? On my cross country bike (Specialized Stumpjumper hardtail with a SID xc) the widest I could fit were 2.1s. I have a Specialized FSR with a Mantiou dual crown that has 3.0s, but my freeride bike(Rocky Mountain Edge with Marzzochi fork) runs 2.3's although I might be able to squeeze some 3.0s on there. Could've been a faulty tire, who knows, sounds strange that that would happen. That really sucks! Was it possible you had too much air in them? With too much air you run into the problem of not being able to absorb sharp rocks and sticks, but instead you bounce off of them and increase the risk of a puncture. A friend of mine was running some IRC Mythos and she actually had a blowout from running too much air. Coolest thing I ever saw! Not to her of course.
OOPS, they were 2.3's. He was running his dual slalom bike, Azonic DS1. It was his only bike that was functioning at the time. He had Azonic Butcher rims and the front shock was a manitou single crown fork.
Since then, he's built his Karpiel Armaegeddon and Instense Uzzi SLX.
Oh, I love the Intense Uzzi. That is one of the sweetest bikes out there! I'm jealous. What do you ride? I wholeheartedly agree about www.mtbr.com, great source for parts.
Has anyone gone for a laugh on pickuptrucks.com lately. There's been a running thread on mountain biking. They all have some <sarcasm>sweet a$$</sarcasm> Murrays and Huffys. One guy couldn't believe anyone would spend $500 on a bike, afterall he bought $89 Huffy al Wally World. How can you go wrong right. Heck, I have single parts on some of my bikes that cost more than $500. Now you why they drive Dodge and GM.
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