best tires for a cruiser?

[nonlineartom]

Going to be moving from a full suspension frame to a beach cruiser frame, what are the best tires for pot holes and rubbish roads?

So far it's a tie between the Maxxis Hookworm, Scwhable Fat Frank, and Schwable Big Apple tires,

anyone got any personal experience?

 

[edcastrovalley]

I love my Big Apples. They soak up the bumps really well. I'm not sure about the others although I'm sure they work well too.

Another tire I use on my regular (non-motorized) mountain bike is the Armadillo Hemisphere. It's a balloon like tire with a round cross section profile, a good tread but with no knobbies. For some reason this tire has a very low rolling resistance too. I feel like I'm on one of those expensive road bikes because of the way it glides along with little pedaling.

 

[MadRhino]

You don't say about your riding style and speed, so I presume street and cruisin. 8)

I also presume 26 in and I would go for the Hookworms, unless I'm very lucky and can source a wider slick in that size and it can fit the frame.

 

[nonlineartom]

Riding style, 10 miles of tarmac, with lots of shoddy repair jobs and little potholes, not deep bumps but brutally sharp small bumps and holes, speed, 20mph cruising, lots of stop starts in traffic and some chunky hills. I've heard big apples are much better than hookworms at shock absorbtion but im not sure if those big reflective side strips would look stupid on a matte black cruiser

 

[MadRhino]

Then Hookworms on wide rims, 35-40 Psi.

 

[Ykick]

I have some Big Apples on a non-suspension bike but they don't impress me very much. You can buy nearly 3 CST Cyclops for each Big Apple. Rugged 2.4" wide Cyclops also fit where 2.5" Hookworms may not.