What do you think of this tyre?

[patrickza]

Marathon XR HS 359

http://www.schwalbetires.com/content/title-8

My requirements, in order of importance:
-Puncture resistance
-Durability
-Grip
-Rolling resistance

I spend most of my time on the road, but occasionally head for a dirt road, very seldom though. More common is dirt on the tar road. If it rains I usually take the car.

Now the big catch for me is that the rim on my 5305 seems to be slightly right of center when sitting on the bike. When I put my continental 26x2.3 knobby on the back it rubbed on the swingarm. Swapped it with my front tyre which is a 26x1.95 knobby and i have about 2mm to spare. So anyone want to hazard a guess if the 26 x 2.25 in this style will be narrower at the extremes than a 26x1.95 knobby. The profile looks quite round compared to a knobby's square profile, so I'm hoping not.

If only they had them in a 26x2.0 but it seems not. I guess I could always try one and if it doesn't fit save it for my front wheel and get something else for the back...

 

[amberwolf]

Based on all the tires I've had of various sizes and types off scrapped bikes, if it says it's a wider tire then when it's inflated it will be. Most likely if the tire you're looking at is wider than a tire that would barely fit then it probably won't fit once inflated.

It depends on the rim it's on, though, since if you mount a wider tire on a narrower rim than it was meant for (if it has a good enough bead to stay seated despite this) then it may make it narrow enough to fit anyway.


(note: the stuff below is largely irrelevant but I started typing it up and got sidetracked, was done before I realized how far off track I got; seemed a shame not to just submit it anyway. )

I had a lot of trouble finding tires that would work without rubbing on CrazyBike2's rear stays, in any wider tires, even though I was using 24" tires on a 26/27" frame, because the frame had been meant for pretty narrow tires (an old Schwinn 10-speed).

What I ended up with that is really the widest that will work without rubbing on one side or the other is very like this:
http://www.choppersus.com/store/product/290/Tire-24-x-2.1-Skinny-Cat/
that originally was a front tire off the Schwinn chopper ebike that has that plastic fake ICE in the frame and an IZIP (I think) e-drive.
http://www.evalbum.com/1375
I got the tires from All Electronics, of all places, for like $7 or $8 each incl shipping for four of them.
A bit more looking and I found the original item; looks like they still have some but the price went up from $5 to $8, not including shipping:
http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/BTR-24/24-CHOPPER-TIRE/1.html