Road tyres for ancient Lavadome

[DeletedUser006]

There is only one MTB slick. The Spesh Fatboy. They're fast, they are 100psi slicks after all. They're tough, good puncture protection and you can run them down to the carcass. They're cheap. And they stick like sticky stuff to a blanket. Oh, and they've been around for years so they probably count as retro.

I can vouch for these too, they are amazing, I ran mine 100 psi on my previous 94 Cindercone ................. fast and sticky. They were even grippy in the wet which was hard to believe as they are totally slick with no tread.

 

[GarethPJ]

You don't need tread on a bike tyre, there's no chance of such a skinny tyre aquaplaning, especially at high pressures.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_ho-z. ... droplaning

And further to Sheldon's usual concise explanation you should bear in mind that most road surfaces have more effective "tread" than most road tyres.

Whenever I see advertising copy for bike tyres going on about the tread dispersing water it always makes me laugh. The tyre companies presumably know it's crap, but they still use it in their adverts.

 

[Geoff]

I quite like the Maxxis Xeniths (1.5) that Mrs Geoff runs on her bike during the week. Pretty fast at 80-90psi, big and tough enough to stand up to some abuse.

I run 1inch Conti GP's on the Bontrager. They can be fast as anything, but you have to choose between speed and pinch flat resistance (100psi), or ride quality (70ish psi). Since my commute is fairly short, I choose the former, but if I had a long commute I'd be changing them for something bigger.

 

[sunchaser]

I run Conti' Ultra Gator skins on my Kona.

Fast, cheap, long lasting... I like

 

[GarethPJ]

I've tried Ultra Gatorskins, lightweight and fast (they are billed as a winter training tyre, after all) but not very puncture proof, at least when compared with fatboys.

Oh btw don't be confused by the fatboy name, they are only 32mm.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

my recommendation is the Continental City Contact. i'm usin' it in 1.3x26 right now. fast and good grip.
i had bad experiences with the maxxis detonator. two punctures in 2 weeks :?

 

[GarethPJ]

My hint as a part time roady would be avoid anything that's not quite slick. The tread picks up bits of glass and the like so they can work their way through the tyre.

Running tyre savers is also a good idea, they don't look cool but they scrape any bits of grit and glass off your tyre before they get embedded. Obviously they won't shift anything that's sitting in your tread so that's another reason to use proper slicks. The comercial ones are probably not long enough to work on an MTB, but it would be pretty easy to extend them or even to make your own from scratch.

 

[Mr Panda]

Hi peeps - I've been on schwalbe city jets for the last few years - no complaints. Local bike cops saw them and are changing over too! (from knobblies)

 

[yellow-heapster]

Thanks for all the responses – I now have some idea of what to go for. I will let you know how I get on.

 

[yellow-heapster]

I ended up buying a set of mavic cross-rides (yeah I know not exactly period) which can with 1.5 Kenda K-West (or something like that) They were OK but I wasn't too sure about the puncture resilience. Anyway after I while I bought some 'Fatboys' so far - excellent. I'm now overtaking people as opposed to the other way round. Now need some offroad tyres as mine have been nicked by the missus who was fed up of sliding around her semi offroad armadillos.