Intense System 4 £26.95 www.silverfish-uk.com Easily the most contentious issue on the bikemagic forum is what tyres to run, and it’s a debate which will certainly keep tyre...
There are two things that Michelin clearly has. First, a lot of experience when it comes to designing tyres. And second, quite a lot of...
Continental Slash tyres £13.95 (steel bead); £27.95 (Kevlar bead) Continental has settled into a pattern of using a fairly small number of different tread designs but offering...
Schwalbe Ice Spiker tyres £32.95 Cast your mind back to October 2005, when the Met Office were forecasting the hardest winter for a decade. Me and a...
Schwalbe Big Betty tyres £34.99 Fisher Outdoor Leisure Anyone who’s even slightly familiar with the Schwalbe tyre range will know that they’ve all got vaguely silly names that...
Intense CC 2.25 tyres £27 Jungle Intense tyres (or Intense Tire Systems if we’re being formal) reach these shores courtesy of Jungle Products. The range covers DH and...
Michelin All-Mountain/XCR All-Terrain tyres £33.99 (tubed); £36.99 (tubeless) Michelin 01782 401853 The Michelin All-Mountain and XCR All-Terrain tyres are essentially the same, but in different sizes, so we’re looking...
Michelin is one of the biggest tyre companies in the world. It makes tyres for cars, motorbikes, plane, earthmovers and of course bicycles. The bike...
This is Schwalbe’s new Racing Ralph tyre, part of the all-new Evolution line. Evolution is a grab-bag of cunning tyre technologies all intended to get...
No sooner had we posted our review of Continental’s Vapor XC/enduro tyre and mentioned that we were looking forward to the promised 2.3in version than...
Continental Vapor 2.1 ProTection tyres £26.95 Cambrian Tyres Continental tyres have a good reputation in the UK. They’re doubtless hoping that the new Vapor tyre will follow in...
Madison Cycles are one of the bigger importers and distributors of bike kit in the UK, and they spent last week showing off their considerable...
Continental Explorer PRO UST £31.99 Cambrian Tyres 01970 626777 Although they give a lovely ride when they’re up, we’ve not been overly impressed by the practicalities of tubeless tyres so...
The Panaracer Trailblaster Tubeless tyre has been one of the real rubber hits of recent years.
Price: £24.99 each Weight:: 520g Folding / 580g Wire Operating Pressure: 35-55 psi Off-road, 65 psi On-road Features: 2.1in carcass, bi-directional tread pattern, Bi-Bond structure, Multi-step & Variable...
Continental Survival Pro 2.3 Weight: 700g Wire/630g Folding (ProTection version +10g) Features: 2.3in carcass, ‘Endless edge’, uni-directional tread design Test Log: 12+ hours from snow, ice, mud and...
There are a whole load of slick tyres out there for MTB’s from which we’ve taken an example of each category, from super-tough heavyweights, to...
Panaracer Trail Blaster 2.1 Price: Steel bead £21.99, Kevlar bead £26.99 Weight: 520g Features: ‘Faded’ dual compound rubber, multi shaped knobs, Anti-Snake bite chafer. Test logbook: 6 rocky and...
Bontrager Jones AC Tyre Much is said about tyres, each season the manufacturers bring out new treads and claim these are the best since, well the...
New from Bontrager Cycles is the Jones AC, a 26″ X 2.0″ running on a 47mm casing diameter with a 52mm tread width. There’s a bigger...
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