What tyres to buy?

SexyGreyFox · 9 May 2019 at 22:19

These are to go on an MTB and I've decided I will be buying Schwalbe Marathon Plus but which ones.

There are the knobbly 2.1" or normal 1.75"

https://www.schwalbe.com/en/tour-reader/marathon-plus.html

https://www.schwalbe.com/en/offroad-reader/marathon-plus-mtb.html

I'm getting on a bit and I want to be as safe as possible, I want to cycle on crap pothole roads, cycle lanes/paths full of glass, grass and anything else.
I've had 6 years on 1.75" and just had 4 months using a Schwalbe Ice Spiker on the front which has been superb in bad weather.

So what would you go for out of those two?

SexyGreyFox · 9 May 2019 at 23:08

I've had quite a lot of punctures on my commute.
A lot of it is where football fans walk and they think it's great smashing bottles so my priority is puncture proof.
Just wondering whether normal tyres or the knobbly ones!

SexyGreyFox · 16 May 2019 at 16:56

vanandjuanunited said:
Schwalbe Land Cruiser user here. Still on first set and yet to have any issues. Liked them so much I have a spare set to change over to in next couple of months

I've had at least 10 punctures over the last 6 years with Land Cruisers so this is why I want to go up a notch.

SexyGreyFox · 16 May 2019 at 17:17

area51 said:
https://www.schwalbe.com/en/tour-reader/marathon-plus-tour.html

What size wheels you running?

I've just ordered two of those from Halfords which are competitive on the price with the bigger stores, I can collect and I'll get 10% NHS discount.

26 x 1.75"

I also bought some puncture resistant inner tubes from the ALDI special buys for £1.99 so hopefully I won't have to worry about punctures again.

SexyGreyFox · 17 May 2019 at 09:35

area51 said:
I can't ride with anything knobbly having Fibro and Raynauds the tiny vibrations set off like white finger

I get very bad pins & needles but that's due to diabetes.