Recommendations for puncture proof Winter tyres?

[Custom24]

Hi
This will be my first Winter commuting. I'm using a 26" MTB for a mostly off road commute, which is quite muddy in parts. With the original tyres that came with the bike, I was getting about 3 punctures per week, so I switched to Schwalbe Marathon Plus ATB tyres, the tread pattern below. Since then, I've had just one puncture, but I'm sliding around on the mud and to keep going throughout the Winter, I think I'll need tyres with more grip. I don't want to go back to having punctures, so if I keep the ATB tyres for the Summer, does anyone have any recommendations for something for the Winter to complement it?

Thanks
Mark

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[MrJamie]

Im using Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour on both my bikes, 700*40mm on the hybrid and 26*2.00 on the mtb. The latter looks really wide and knobbly and is way more grippy on mud than standard M+, although Ive not really done many miles on either yet to test - hopefully over the weekend. Actually, just remembered they do M+ MTB http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schwalbe-Ma...sr_1_2?s=sports&ie=UTF8&qid=1351289326&sr=1-2 Cheapest here, but you will have to add £6 postage (for the pair iirc) http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/a47391/marathon-plus-mtb-21-wire.html?lg=en&cr=GBP&cn=gb

Punctures are always bad, but in the winter in the cold when the glue doesnt work and your fingers are freezing off, I wont go for anything less protected than marathon plus .

 

[VamP]

3 punctures a week indicates incorrectly fixed punctures to me. Even on lightweight Ultremo's I have had 2 punctures in the last 1000 miles, pretty much all of this in the wet and with tons of debris on the roads.

Check your old tyres for lodged sharps - stones, glass, thorns - as that is most likely causing your problems.

 

[screenman]

Throw away your inner tubes and go tubeless, far fewer punctures.

 

[Custom24]

3 punctures a week indicates incorrectly fixed punctures to me

Even off-road? I was checking carefully after each puncture repair that there was nothing left in the tyre. Most of the repairs I did at home, so there was enough time to check properly. I think it may have been more the surface which is part of my commute.

 

[Custom24]

Throw away your inner tubes and go tubeless, far fewer punctures.

But I'd have to throw away the wheels as well, right?

 

[screenman]

No!

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[Drago]

In my experience puncture resistant tyres never work well off road where you're running much lower pressures, so I use slime tubes.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

3 punctures a week indicates incorrectly fixed punctures to me. Even on lightweight Ultremo's I have had 2 punctures in the last 1000 miles, pretty much all of this in the wet and with tons of debris on the roads.

Check your old tyres for lodged sharps - stones, glass, thorns - as that is most likely causing your problems.

I'd done the same only more so; more miles. Then I swapped tyres, same routes; three visits in a week, and I'm certain they were fixed right, put the gatorskin hardshells back on, same routes, no visits.

 

[VamP]

Even off-road? I was checking carefully after each puncture repair that there was nothing left in the tyre. Most of the repairs I did at home, so there was enough time to check properly. I think it may have been more the surface which is part of my commute.

I was gonna say I never heave punctures offroad, but I had my first one today, so that doesn't stand. Three a week still seems really high.

 

[VamP]

I was gonna say I never heave punctures offroad, but I had my first one today, so that doesn't stand. Three a week still seems really high.

Erm, have.

 

[bjellys]

I ride 95% off road and was getting lots of punctures which were mainly thorns.Since putting slime into the tyres I have had zero flats & when I changed from my summer tyres to my winter mud tyres I found I had 5 thorns in the the front tyre, which slime had sealed the inner tube .I put the tube back in into the new mud tyres without mending the punctures ( not through laziness just as a test ) and now 6 weeks later still no punctures .I always carry a spare tube and pump as a backup.
So It is 1 vote for slime from me

 

[Dan151]

Give these a try

http://www.conti-online.com/generat...es/plusseries/trafficplus/trafficplus_en.html

 

[Custom24]

I ride 95% off road and was getting lots of punctures which were mainly thorns.Since putting slime into the tyres I have had zero flats & when I changed from my summer tyres to my winter mud tyres I found I had 5 thorns in the the front tyre, which slime had sealed the inner tube .I put the tube back in into the new mud tyres without mending the punctures ( not through laziness just as a test ) and now 6 weeks later still no punctures .I always carry a spare tube and pump as a backup.
So It is 1 vote for slime from me

I should have said - I tried Slime. It helped - it probably reduced punctures by about a half. But changing to the puncture proof tyres (without Slime) reduced punctures a lot more (don't know yet as I've only had one in three months)

 

[Custom24]

Give these a try

http://www.conti-online.com/generat...es/plusseries/trafficplus/trafficplus_en.html

Those do look like the kind of thing I'm after, except I'm unconvinced about the amount of extra grip they'd give me over what I'm using at the moment. They're listed as urban MTB, which I am not.