Gravel Tyres.....

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Anyway, the tyre in question is

Maxxis Rambler Folding Exo TR Gravel Bike Tyre - 700c x 40

Pirelli Cinturato Gravel H, I'm running them at the moment for mixed surface riding. Feel faster than they have any right to be!

Schwalbe G One All rounds are my go to gravel tyre, good for roads, lanes, disused railway tracks and the South Downs, i.e. my gravel routes, and as i'm too lazy to change tyres very often end up being my winter road tyre as well. For me they literally are an all round tyre.

I have Vittoria Terreno Dry 700x40 on my new gravel bike, seem to roll really well on tarmac whilst also offering OK grip on the rough stuff.

probably 40% tarmac roads, 60% back lane with mud and leaf mush and gravelly farm/field roads

I do 90% road (usually broken Scottish back lanes, currently full of leaves) and 10% paths or tracks. If you're not off-road, why fit off-road tyres?

I use touring tyres. 36mm Continental - I use Contact, Mrs_oab Speed Contact.

They're noticeably faster rolling than the cx/gravel tyres we did have. Puncture resistant. Comfy. Grippy, despite looking slick.

Happy with Continental Terra Speed. Very fast on road with a bit more tread than a G One Allround that I was also considering, more like a G One Bite. Not cheap mind!

Schwalbe G One All rounds are my go to gravel tyre, good for roads, lanes, disused railway tracks and the South Downs, i.e. my gravel routes, and as i’m too lazy to change tyres very often end up being my winter road tyre as well. For me they literally are an all round tyre.

I have those on my Gravel bike at the moment - the pattern doesn't look much cop in muddy condition, but I've not tried it yet - how do they fair?

I have ridden mine in mud and the answer is not great, the tread just doesn't clear, in fairness that was hub deep mud so quite extreme but i doubt i'd use them for even a slightly muddy cx course. Thin mud with something hard underneath isn't too much of an issue but proper mud forget it.

https://teravail.com/products/rutland-tire#/

But from a UK supplier 🙂

Schwalbe G One All rounds are my go to gravel tyre, good for roads, lanes, disused railway tracks and the South Downs, i.e. my gravel routes, and as i’m too lazy to change tyres very often end up being my winter road tyre as well. For me they literally are an all round tyre.

I have those on my Gravel bike at the moment – the pattern doesn’t look much cop in muddy condition, but I’ve not tried it yet – how do they fair?

They are rubbish on anything slippery. I'm not all that impressed with them in the dry either. They feel vague and lose grip under braking on dry tarmac. I swapped my CX tyres onto the bike a few weeks ago - 35mm with actual knobs - and the bike felt instantly more direct and secure on everything including tarmac. The bike is back to having a G One on the rear now, with a Spesh Trigger on the front and feels better for that. When the G One rear wears out it will be replaced with another Spesh.

Unless you are riding on off camber clay type mud you don't need tread. I use a Schwalbe G One speed on the front and a Hutchinson Overide on the back for the stuff you are doing. Bit of muddy single track, plenty of gravel and some red runs in the FoD as my commute.

Just put a pair of Vittoria Barzo XC tyres on mine! Couldn’t give a shit how they roll on tarmac, but they are ace over t’moors when it gets a bit rough..!!

Ramblers are fine. All the gravel tyres I've tried are fine. I do 60/40 back lanes and bridleways. I use them in a 38. No gravel tyres are much cop in proper mud. I swapped them recently and found three thorns in the back tyre but it hadn't lost any pressure. I do run them tubeless though. I run 35mm Gravelkings for more clearance through the winter, but they're the chunkier ones.

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I use continental contact as my mainly road, the odd bit of track tyre.
Rough muddy winter stuff I use 40mm wtb nano.
Drier summer off road panaracer gravel king SK 43mm are ace.

In the past I've found 38mm schwalbe landcruiser pretty good and tough.

Having two sets of wheels makes life a bit easier, one with the road tyres on and the other with either summer or winter off road on.

My opinion Swalbe G one's may well be great on long gravel roads but as soon as wet/ muddy roots are absolute confidence losers...my vote Gravel King small knobs....for me roll well and if you hit wet/muddy just keep on working exactly the same...owning tyres named after a physical attribute is a plus...also been running Maxis Ramblers and good off road and in wet but feel draggy on sealed roads

I have Vittoria Terreno Dry 700×40

Have been very surprised what I can get away with on mine, anything soft or muddy maybe just needs a bit of finesse on the pedals, and I think the side knobs end up working under drive and braking anyway.

Only fright I've had was on steep wet grass, I guess the ground wasn't soft enough for the side knobs to sink in.

GravelKing 50c's for me - work well and enable extra 'confidence' on rough/fast descents.

My gravel bike came with Maxis Ramblers 700c tubeless, I think they were 38c.

Whilst giving reasonable grip and not too draggy, I have found them prone to leaking through the side walls
and I picked up a lot punctures that required patching. They also wore pretty quickly and I changed them
after ~750 miles.

I have switched to a larger size (45c) Hutchinson Tundra gravel tyre. 200 miles in and quite impressed with
grip, no air leakage but more draggy.

I have Vittoria Terreno Dry 700×40

Me too. I’m quite surprised at how capable they are. Little bit disconcerting when you learn them over to the knobbles but they stick.

Running about 35-40psi tubeless.

I did think they’d be straight in the skip and a set of nobbers on.

The only point of bigger tyres for me is that they are more comfortable and a bit faster. If grip is that much of an issue on gravel roads then I am not sure what you are doing. I have ridden gravel roads for the last twenty years with a lot of that time riding 25mm slick tyres with the major disadvantage being they are very noticeably less comfortable but I wasn't falling off due to lack of grip.

^ Keeley +1

riding 25mm slick tyres with the major disadvantage being they are very noticeably less comfortable but I wasn’t falling off due to lack of grip.

Sort of agree. I have 2.1" Terreno semi-slicks on the 29er, basically just a fatter Terreno Dry. Obviously more comfortable and fewer rim strikes due to the volume, but I wouldn't say any more grip than the narrower Terreno, seems to float over stuff more than bite

Round me there are lots of places I can ride on my gravel bike off road which really don’t work on slicks in the winter

My Vittoria Terrano dries we’re on the limit last weekend. They’ll need to come off soon

Last winter I used teravail Rutland 650b 47c. I’m wondering whether wtb sendero might have even more grip. Anyone tried them?

I’ll have a seperate set of 700c with with slicks for road and other armoured surfaces

25mm slicks would offer insufficient traction on many of the loose dirt/gravel climbs I ride. Touring tyres just don't cut it. The Rutland's already mentioned are proving their worth and I'm happy to second that recommendation.

To be fair, I think it was you that recommended them to me in the first place 🙂

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/wtb-raddler-tcs-fast-cx-tyre-dual-dna-sg2-/rp-prod203588

cheapo raddlers here. just bought a set to replace my worn out riddlers.

I just picked up some 35mm Zeros at around £7.50 each.

Here

So, happy to say Maxxis Rambler Folding Exo TR Gravel Bike Tyre – 700c x 40 fitted on a dream (no levers, just hands).

Tubeless with Stans no tubes in.

40psi.

Comfortable, no buzz on tarmac, did not feel 'draggy', felt ok on back lanes with damp leaf mush.

Happy so far.

WTB Raddlers in 44mm tan wall flavour and pretty impressed. As good off-road as I need and ok on the road as well.

First ride on the raddlers, seem to magically roll faster on road and have more grip off road than the riddlers they replaced.