Michelin Wildgripper

Advantages: strong and go on and on
Disadvantages: front wheel frenzy.

Rip the floor apart with these babies, the back tyre is just dreamy very strong push with very little weight on it. Perfect for those up hill pushes when traction can be lowered by you hanging over the front end. Its designed with a bar in the middle of the tyre and triangular edges. The bar is great for forward speed and the diagonal sections perfect for stabalizing you into corners. Again this is a piece of kit I’ve been running for three ...
...reviews for the rest of my cycle kit). If I’ve managed to run them for three years in the dales there long lasting worth whatever the guy (or gal) asks you to pay for them. My previous set went bald on the back end (I must loose some weight again), no, seriously I hadent had a rip or rim off session once, a couple of punchers but that’s to be expected. The front tyre I have had fun with, part I think caused by my set up – I like ... Read review

Advantages: Reasonable good grip
Disadvantages: Weight

I used this on the rear of my mountain bike a few years ago. Not the greatest, grip is ok however as is puncture resistance. Very heavy tyre however, and the rolling resistance is high, giving a tyre that feels slow and heavy to get going - and slugish to climb. On singletrack it is limited by this too, though the performance does pick up when it is going downhill. Problem is that unless you have an uplift, you are so worn out by dragging the ... Read review