26" skinny knobblies?

[hamster]

I had a pair on a 700c trackie a couple of years back. Great tyres, but a little thin, both in width and strength. Got a lot of punctures as i recall the casing not being very substantial.

My experience too, riding chunkier gravel tracks (on a 26" version), also they tended to snakebite even at 60psi, which was the recommended max pressure. Fast though.

 

[ishaw]

I have some pretty skinny nobbly 26 inch tyres. Hutchinson Mosquito air lite. Kevlar bead, very light tyres and only 1.85 wide, though seem skinnier than that ona bike. I had them on my wife's bike for a short while, but swapped them out for some wider tyres as it is an xc bike and the skinny tyres didn't look right.

No idea whether it's a coincidence but we never had any punctures at all with these tyres fitted, but practically get one every other ride with what I replaced them with (maxxis).

 

[retroJIM]

Just bumping this on the off chance someone has discovered some nice 1.5 - 1.9 knobbly tyres that don't cost the earth.

 

[dyna-ti]

Something like a Tioga Factory Mud 1.85F ? F = folding.

Couple on ebay currently. Very knobbly
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/31454791...MI6o_n_aTS_gIVx9_tCh0awAkGEAQYASABEgJle_D_BwE
And I have a new one somewhere.

 

[Tootyred]

So it seems the answer is " No" ..... nobody makes a decent or even reasonable quality, sub 2" amberwall, 26" knobbly tyre......let alone a 1.75"!

Well in that case, i will just have to chuck my swallow ptarmigan in the skip when I've burnt through the 2 pairs of 1.95 irc mythos ive got!

Chalk another win up to the anti 26" brigade!

 

[Tootyred]

Which is of course exactly what "they" want!

 

[Bawgixer]

I’ve a few sets of these Continental cross country’s that are 26” x1.5
Plenty of grip,not sure if they are available still

 

[retroJIM]

I've just ordered a pair of Geax Gato 1.7 mentioned earlier in the thread. They're folding, pretty light and only £7.50 each. Gotta be worth a try.