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I’ve not used the internet before so not sure if I need square or round tyres ?
Grip for general winter use
Thanks in advance
Round ones tend to give better mileage.
Any half decent make will be better than summer tyres. Mine happen to be Continental TS850P’s, been very pleased with them.
Cross climate tyres may well suit if not likely to encounter snow very often.
Bike, or car?
Should have said it’s the front two tyres on my combine harvester that need replacing
Can tell if they’re round square or triangle shaped
I have got a brand new combine harvester and I am prepared to give you the key.
Michelin Cross Climate 2’s… 👍🏻
Agreed Michelin Cross Climate. We’ve fitted to wife’s, son’s and daughter’s cars.
Kind of perfect for typical GB winters.
I’ve just had a pair of Michelin CrossClimate 2’s fitted to the front of my Ford, the original Goodyear tyres were, frankly, borderline legal, especially the nearside one, which really showed when we had some recent heavy rain.
Even though it’s been dry, I can really feel a difference, the car just feels more positive and solid-feeling in corners. They’re slightly noisier on certain surfaces, but not enough to bother me.
There are a number of others on the market that get very good reviews, Goodyear Vector Gen 4’s were my first choice, but the supplier that work uses have no stock, but there are Hankook, Nokian, Continental that all make quality cross-climate tyres that are good all year.
Obviously more expensive than ditch-finders, mine were just shy of £230 - I have seen an invoice for a single tyre for a Range Rover that was £358, so these things are all relative.
Just fit CrossClimates all round and leave them on all year round. Perfect UK tyre really.
Cross climate if you're planning on leaving them on year round. It doesn't make so much sense to put them on for winter only - there's better winter tyres. Cross climate is a summer tyre with mud & snow rating.
Crossclimates are ace, but, not winter tyres, like Butcher says it doesn't make sense to fit them if you want winters (ie you're a 2 sets of tyres person).
I've had Toyo Snowproxes, Dunlop Wintersports and Hankook Icebears. The Snowproxes were probably the "summeriest", they definitely gripped better than the others in the warm and dry, but they were also a bit less grippy in snow. Or, actually they always got me where I wanted to go, they just were driftier and less connected- a wee bit unsettling. (that was on the mondeo so it was torquey, open-diffed, and fairly heavy, but it was kind of gobsmacking what it could grunt its way up with a bit of well-mannered spinning)
The Icebears were very "wintery", they weren't nice in the warm and dry but they were very good in the ice and especially snow. Memorably towed a landrover out of a ditch in pitmedden forest in the snow with these, on a shitey diesel Focus.
The Wintersports are what I've got on now, they've basically got all the good points of both tyres- they feel completely normal in warmer dryer weather, just a wee bit noisier than normal but otherwise like any decent sport touring tyre. And they're impressive on ice. Possibly a bit less good on snow than the Icebears but as a road tyre they're in a different league.
No doubt others are just as good, but they're what I've got.
I don't think combine harvesters get used in the winter
Dart on the front, Smoke on the rear. 2.1 Fire XC Pro’s if you want to get freeridey.
Should have said it’s the front two tyres on my combine harvester that need replacing
Schwalbe Corny Colin or Barley Brian.
What are internet's?
Are they those new hemp harvesters?
Or them new fangled tyres with air in them?
How do you keep the air in nets?
Maxxis Minion DHF/DHR2 combo, without fail. EXO if available or DD I'd you're not bothered about the weight.
Just put it in snow mode, whatever the vehicle it'll become unstoppable.
Continental Gatorskins, as they're hard / low grip enough that they make summer roads feel like winter ones so you can have year-round slidyness.
You don’t mention rim size, but these look like a bargain. Should be good in mud and sand as well.
On my HT the front is whatever cast-off tyre that has the most tread from my FS and the rear is a Maxxis Minion SS.
Not a lot of mud here and the SS is surprisingly good when we get snow.
Crossclimates are ace, but not winter tyres, like Butcher says it doesn’t make sense to fit them if you want winters (ie you’re a 2 sets of tyres person).
Very few people in the UK actually need winter tyres hence all the Crossclimate recommendations.
That's true but it's not just about "need", I still like having better grip than I need. And the crossclimates are also less good in summer than a "summer" tyre. Also, crossclimates are expensive
Very few people in the UK actually need winter tyres
It's a driving god thing.
And combine harvester, of course.
It’s a driving god thing.
Arguably it actually makes up for my driving inadequacies, what with being able to steer and stop.
True driving gods believe that they can do anything on summer tyres, and are usually the BMW drivers featured on local news slithering around in a sprinkling of snow.
The all seasons earned their keep this morning. It snowed overnight and while Dumbarton was OK no sign that the gritters or ploughs had been out in East Dunbartonshire. Passed numerous abandoned cars on the pavements and verges coming home off nightshift. Had to steer round the guy who pulled out a side road in front of me and found he had no steering on the compacted snow and went straight ahead into the kerb partly blocking my lane.