Best tyres for gloop?

[SilverSurfer]

Seen the CoastKid vids where he cruises through all the schlop on his Puglsey and wondered if I could formulate a poor man's version on a normal 90's MTB.

What is best for getting through the gloop - is it big knobblies or as wide and low pressure as poss? Or both?

Obviously clearance will be nowhere near what a Pug has...

 

[jimo746]

Last winter I used Geax Barro Mud, think they were 26 x 1.7 and worked pretty well.

I go for the same principle as snow tyres for rallying, narrow, higher pressure, cuts through the gloop to solid ground underneath for grip.

 

[velomaniac]

Pugsley has 3.7" wide baloons which allows it to sit on top of soft terrain. For the rest of us normal bikers you need mud tyres which are usually skinny with wide spaced tall knobs which cut through the gloop to thefirmer terrain below.

My question is whats a recommended budget mud tyre as my local trails are like the somme at the moment

 

[SilverSurfer]

yeah it seems to be either extreme - or avoid gloop, preferable but not easy

 

[legrandefromage]

sticky clay based gloop? nothing

forest based washes off quickly type gloop? I use a Conti Survivor with wide spaced knobbles

 

[lewis1641]

I've just ordered a pair of michelin country mud's. 20 quid off ebay. Not used them yet but they seem to get good reviews online.

 

[hamster]

Clay + chalk goo was always a speciality for Onza Rip & Rail - the putty like stuff just squeezed out of the tread.

 

[taffy]

old continental cross countrys in 1.7 or some IRC Geoclaws - both narrow and push through the mud to firmer stuff below.

Not sure about more modern tyres though and as LGF says clay is a right ghet.

 

[tintin40]

Conti Edge for me

 

[SilverSurfer]

No clay kludge round these parts, more forest mush - will investigate wide-spaced kernobblies