Mountain Bike Tires Explained, From Widths and Sealants to Inserts
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We’ve dedicated a couple Singletracks podcast episodes to mountain bike tires already, but things are changing fast! Based on popular demand, Matt and I talk about the latest in tire widths (is a 2.5″ tire mid-plus?), tread patterns, sealants, and tire inserts.
Want more? Go back and listen to our show about choosing the best mountain bike tires for conditions and our interview with Bobby from Maxxis about plus tires.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends |
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| 0:11.7 | some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one |
| 0:18.4 | pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. This week we're resharing one of our favorite episodes of the Single Tracks podcast. If you've already heard this one, don't worry, because next week we'll be back with an all-new show. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today Matt Miller and I are going to be talking about mountain bike tires. |
| 0:39.0 | So mountain bike tires are a popular topic among single tracks readers and listeners, and it's |
| 0:44.2 | been a couple of years since we talk tires. A lot has changed since then, so we thought we |
| 0:48.8 | would revisit the topic today. We're going to discuss what's going on with tire widths and |
| 0:53.1 | tread patterns, talk about |
| 0:54.5 | some of the tires we've tested recently, and fill you in on new tire tech and things like |
| 1:00.3 | mountain bike tire inserts. So Matt, let's start off talking about these tire widths. |
| 1:06.7 | You know, we've seen a lot of changes over the years with tires going from, you know, |
| 1:11.7 | regular standard tires to fat bike tires, the plus. And now we're seeing, I don't know, |
| 1:17.7 | what do you call it, the two and a half inch, two point six inch tires? What do you think is a |
| 1:22.0 | good name for that? Ooh, extra wide, extra wide. I mean, what do they, what do they call in the wider |
| 1:28.8 | rim widths |
| 1:30.3 | I don't know yeah those are just like |
| 1:32.2 | say it by the size 30 millimeter or whatever |
| 1:35.6 | I know Maxis is calling the 2.5 and 2.6 inch |
| 1:39.7 | tires the wide trail |
| 1:41.4 | yeah that's what I'm thinking of |
| 1:43.1 | but that's like a proprietary |
| 1:44.8 | Maxis thing. I don't know if they trademarked it. Right. But so we'll call it, we'll call it wide, |
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