xc/cx tyre advice please

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 The Potato 18 Apr 2017

Im looking for some 27.5 (650b) tubeless tyres for light xc and cx style riding, will be approx 40/30/30 road/gravel/singletrack

Ive currently got Conti X-kings (wired version which wont go tubeless) and am quite impressed with them but looking at tubeless options. In the past Ive had some 26" Maxxis Ikon tyres which are great but quite expensive.
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 MonkeyPuzzle 18 Apr 2017
In reply to The Potato:

Tubeless-wise I have both MTB and gravel-road bikes and have used Schwalbe and Bontrager tubeless tyres and found them great.

Are these for a MTB or CX frame? What clearance do you have?
 beardy mike 18 Apr 2017
In reply to The Potato:

Good luck finding some. The only ones I know of at the minute are as follows:

https://www.panaracer.com/lineup/gravel.html Panaracer Gravel king amd pari moto
http://surlybikes.com/parts/tires/knard_650b Surly Knard, 650bx41 which are as far as I can find an absurd price.
https://www.wtb.com/products/horizon 650bx47 which is essentially a fat road tyre.

plus a few really niche companies in the states.

So unless any of these suit what you want to do...

It's what put me off going for 650b on my gravel bike.
OP The Potato 18 Apr 2017
In reply to MonkeyPuzzle:
its a mtb frame so its a monstercross - front can be up to 2.7" and rear 2.4" but Id not want to run anything nearly that fat!

In reply to beardy mike:
Thanks for the links, the Panaracers look interesting but are all for 700c wheels. Im not looking for a specific cyclocross tyre, more of a fast rolling all rounder, something like the Panaracer DriverPro.. but still quite pricey
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 MonkeyPuzzle 18 Apr 2017
In reply to The Potato:
I'd check out the Bontrager XR0 Team Issue. I have the XR4 and XR3 front and rear which are much more aggressive but the XR3 rolls well enough. Cheaper than Maxxis and Schwalbe too.

Maybe XR1 front XR0 rear.
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OP The Potato 18 Apr 2017
In reply to MonkeyPuzzle:

not much cheaper though still £40 a tyre, ill keep hunting but ill keep a few in mind for later, thanks
 MonkeyPuzzle 18 Apr 2017
In reply to The Potato:

Yeah, it's the going rate for tubeless ready tyres unfortunately. Some non-tubeless tyres will work, but there's some that just won't on certain rims.
 beardy mike 18 Apr 2017
In reply to The Potato:

The only one that's not is the gravelking and the parimoto... designed for the cannondale slate.

If you are looking for fast rolling allrounder, I've just tried Swalbe Smart sams and they're OK. they do a 1.75" version which I struggled to fit in my frame. Am probably going to move to either WTB nano's or Riddlers as you can run them tubless but then I'm on 700c/29" rims!

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