What tires are you using?

[wavedancer]

My Titus Racer X came with Hutchinson Python tubeless tires that have been good on dry hardpack. However, I live in the Northeast and our conditions include a lot of wet leaves, roots, sand, mud, loose stuff. So I am hoping that getting a different set of tires may help me stay upright in those conditions!

What's your favorite tire and what in conditions do you usually ride?

I am considering getting some IRC Seracs...any experience with them?

Thanks in advance,
Linda

[fatbottomedgurl]

Sorry Linda our conditions are dry, hardpack, rocks, sand & gravel. Complete opposite. But for those interested almost everyone in my club and their SOs ride on Panaracer Fire XC Pros. The Japanese ones, not made in Taiwan (let the buyer beware). Available in wire bead, kevlar, and UST.

[rocknrollgirl]

I too have a Titus racer X with Kenda Nevegal tires. I live in the NE, and I really like them. The DH has them also and likes them.

[Popoki_Nui]

I'm currently using Maxxis MoFo XC's. I've read some poor 'reviews' on MTBR about them, but I find them great tires for general XC and downhill riding on loose gravel/roots 'n rocks, and excellent in mud conditions. My last pair were Kenda Koyote's, which were probably the best MTB tire I've ever used. No longer available, I'm afraid.

[mellic]

I have tried a lot of different tyres out over the last couple of years. Where I live we have a lot of different types of track, from really loose pea gravel (which is like riding on marbles) boggy track, to your hard compact track, to your slippery rooty muddy track.

Each type of track really does require a different set of tyres.

For the gravelly sandy tracks I primarily use Hutchinson pythons, but if the corners are really sketchy I put a Hutchinson Scorpion on the front just for a little more control.

For the hard compact tracks I love my Schwalbe Racing Ralphs.

Then for the muddy tracks I like the Michelin XCR Mud tyre.

[tattiefritter]

We also have a bit of everything - very rocky (usually wet), greasy limestone, roots, sandy/gritty tracks, mud, wheel sucking bog... As we can encounter all that in a single ride I use all round tyres and only change them when they wear out. Have used Panaracer Fire XC Pro 2.1 for the last couple of years ok but have recently bought a Kenda Blue Groove/Nevegal combination which I am really loving and think they are better all round than the Panaracers. Both the Panaracer and Kenda tyres are crap in deep claggy mud but there isn't much of that around here.