Solid tyres

[Allirog]

I have been thinking of buying a set of solid tyres from http://www.tiredofpunctures.com/cycle/index.html after seeing their advert in 'Cycling world' magazine. Has anyone used these tyres,and if so, are they a viable alternative to pneumatic ones?

 

[steve52]

fine for genral cycling but lots of rolling resistance for going fast

 

[palinurus]

I have not tried solid (closed-cell) type tyres, the general opinion of them is that they are heavy and affect bike handling. There are other opinions though.

There was a commuter on here who used something similar as a rear tyre- punctures are more likely to occur at the rear plus handling is affected less- and he was fairly happy with that solution. There may be others- it would be good if this thread flushes them out because I am curious too.

In general though few cyclists use them. Most use some puncture resistant tyres (relatively small weight penalty compared to solids), with the right tyre you should be able to reduce punctures to a very infrequent occurrence (on my commute bike and training road bike combined I am averaging less than one per year, riding in all weathers- a few thousand miles per year)

 

[Hilldodger]

We've been given freebies of the different ones over the years but I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

You'd be better off buying some decent puncture resistant tyres and a track pump to keep the pressures up.

 

[palinurus]

Or you could get a bike like Hilldodger's.

 

[G-Zero]

Or you could get a bike like Hilldodger's.

Apologies for going off topic, but you just jogged my memory that I saw an Ordinary Bike while driving in the Shankhouse/Cramlington (NE) area a few months ago and it looked to have a modern 'knobbly' MTB tyre on the front.

Fascinating to see on the road.... Anyone on here perhaps ?

 

[palinurus]

Let's swerve this topic through the guardrail.

This?

 

[palinurus]

I imagine it's a bit spinny

 

[palinurus]

Driving it back up the embankment: links to earlier threads

Here, and here

Search "greentyres" for more.

 

[Allirog]

Driving it back up the embankment: links to earlier threads

Here, and here

Search "greentyres" for more.

Thanks for your advice.After following the links you provided I think I'll just put up with occasional punctures I get on my ride to work.Trouble is, Sod's Law kicks in and most of my flats are at night on unlit country roads.I even tried that green gunk stuff that you put in your inner tube,and I still got a puncture-and what was worse was that it couldn't be repaired because the patch wouldn't stick to the gunky tube.

 

[Hilldodger]

Or you could get a bike like Hilldodger's.

Well we are just about to build a batch of ten new ones.................

 

[cyberknight]

Marathon plus tyres , job done .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Marathon plus tyres , job done .

Or Bontrager racelites, both have excellent puncture resistance.

 

[Cush]

I have been thinking of buying a set of solid tyres from http://www.tiredofpunctures.com/cycle/index.html after seeing their advert in 'Cycling world' magazine. Has anyone used these tyres,and if so, are they a viable alternative to pneumatic ones?

I see that there is another solid tyre on the market now, has any one tried them and if so are they any better than the old one's (time to think of my annual upgrade of bike parts)

 

[byegad]

Unless they have made a huge advance (And given the regular re-invention of these things suggest they haven't and won't!) expect huge rolling resistance, skittish handling and extra weight. Also expect to spend a lot of time re-tightening loose components due to the extra vibration.

There's a reason why fragile pneumatics wiped out solid tyres when they were introduced.