Tyre choice....

 
So originally there was the 8 inch T1 tyres sat on the MBS.  And that was all well and good until the 10 inch diamond treat Primos turned up.  And then the 9 inch Primos arrived and the range of choice was huge!

But which one is best?

Seriously, it's a blog post for another day to compare tyre choice to terrain type and weather conditions along with tyre pressure and hub type and certainly some people take this kind of thing very, very seriously [at this point I was going to point to an article in Scuz Magazine where someone takes tyre choice very, very seriously, but that's for another day].

But that's for later.  In the meantime, lets just sum up the choice with a lovely graph:

 Perhaps I should finish with some sort of analysis?  Erm.....when choosing which wheels to put on a mountain board, bear in mind that 10 inch tyres are heavier than 9 inch tyres which in turn are heavier than the 8 inch ones?  That sounds fair enough.

Primo Strikers!

 

Arrived in the post this morning, just in time for me to ride my local soggy woods tomorrow morning.  If you too want a set and can't get hold of any from anywhere, give noSno a shout, they'll sort you out!  Came complete with Primo Composite hubs, bearings and inner tubes, so should be ready to slap on and roll off.

9 inch tyres - choices and availability???

Been keeping an eye out for a while for some freeriding 9 inch tyres, to slot nicely in-between the 8 inch (not running great in my local soggy woods) and the 10 inch (bloody heavy but fast) diamond tread fat tyres.

Was hoping for a set of Primo Strikers (£39 with tubes) with Primo Composite hubs(£30), but talking to ATBSports earlier revealed these to be indefinitely 'out of stock' with Primo 'not really doing these any more'.

Alternatives seem to be MBS T2 (£49 without tubes, £71 with tubes) or a tyre produced by scrub (£32 with tubes).

Assuming that I'll need inner tubes and hubs (these tyres won't fit my old Rockstars apparently) do I go for the Scrub or the MBS? Hold out for some Primos from somewhere, or is there an alternative?

Please feel free to post below and let me know!