Vintage Mountain Bike Tires

[DesertRyder]

Favorite vintage tire that's still in production: Panaracer Fire. "Favorite" is a strong word, I don't feel they ride very well, OK off road I guess. Panaracer is still making their Smoke/Dart combo. All of em look the part.

Favorite el cheapo tire: Probably the Moheiga beach cruiser tires off Amazon. Surprisingly not all that bad, and very retro looking.

Favorite urban slick: Maxxis DTH. Glorious tire, not very retro but it looks good and rides awesome. Light, sticky. I accidentally ordered some Box 2 urban slicks, haven't mounted em up yet but they look darn good and are 20 grams lighter and quite a bit less expensive, eager to try em

Favorite gravel tire I can't afford: Probably Rene Herse Humptulips, although Ultradynamico Cava is looking darn good.

You can see, I kinda look at things a little differently, I really dig light sticky tires. The ones I really like all come in tan sidewall, which is "vintage" enough for me

I guess for durability I'd be thinking Schwalbe. I ran 50mm Marathon Plus tires for years, hated em (really sluggish) but I couldn't wear em out. They are also ugly. Their Blackjack is actually a halfway decent hybrid tire, weirdly inexpensive and I think it looks kinda good on a vintage frame. Billy Bonkers is a popular urban tire, competes with the DTH at a fraction of the price

That's favorite of mine too. I put a pair of brown (tan) walls on my MTB BMX cruiser conversion and the ride smooth and look good.

Moheiga beach cruiser tires

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I don't want the look of tan walls on most bikes, not my style, and I have problems with the durability. For an MX cruiser style tire, I like kenda k rads

26x2.3 with a wrap around tread, available in wire bead or folding, pretty economical and available.