Ok.

So I’m sorry if I missed like 10,000 discussions of this in the forums already, but I honestly couldn’t find a bunch of posts in one place I could understand about this.

I have tried the Schwalbe website, the “rolling resistance” tire website (which is awesome btw, if the ppl who do that site are on here, kudos)—but I’m still not understanding why this company has made 300 different tires that are all supposed to be puncture resistant for commuting.

Can someone clue me in?

I am a 250-275 lb rider commuting about 80-90 miles each week, and hoping to find a tire that can support my weight, be comfortable for 45 min trips, and not be ridiculously heavy (the commute is hilly and has about 25% gravel). It also needs to be as flat resistant as possible — the city parts of the commute have some debris I can’t easily avoid: I have flatted on a weird industrial staple, shattered safety glass, and what I think was probably a crackpipe or else some kind of little beaker from chemistry class. Each time my tubeless setup (700x40mm gravel tires or 29” 2.0 MTB tires) sealed it enough to get me to the end of the commute, but after that the tires wouldn’t hold air at the pressure appropriate for my weight.

Needless to say, I’m sick of tubeless, so I’d like to just switch to tubes, and would probably swap out to a studded version for winter.

Is anyone willing to share some thoughts on the differences between the Marathon Plus/GT/Tour/Allmotion/Mondial tires?

I haven’t ever commuted on something skinnier than 700x40mm, I suppose I’d be open to trying that, but I guess I just figured since I’m a bigger rider I should stick to the fatter tires.

Thank you in advance for the info!!