Are those good tires? (Continental Grand Prix MTB)
02-23-05, 01:21 PM
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My commuting bike is an MTB... Las summer I put some cheap slick tires on it with 80PSI max. What a difference did it makes compared to knobies. Now I'm looking for even harder tires, since my commuting is stickly on road, and I love speed 
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I was browsing around for tires when I found those : https://www.conti-online.com/generato...ix_mtb_en.html,
and I saw they could go to 120PSIMax (rec 95PSI)...
Anyone use those? Are they any good? Will I burn in hell for putting "road" tires on an MTB?
Oh, one more thing, my suplier has them for sale, but 2 different kinds: Folding tires and normal. What is a folding tire?
.I was browsing around for tires when I found those : https://www.conti-online.com/generato...ix_mtb_en.html,
and I saw they could go to 120PSIMax (rec 95PSI)...
Anyone use those? Are they any good? Will I burn in hell for putting "road" tires on an MTB?
Oh, one more thing, my suplier has them for sale, but 2 different kinds: Folding tires and normal. What is a folding tire?
02-23-05, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by BenyBen
My commuting bike is an MTB... Las summer I put some cheap slick tires on it with 80PSI max. What a difference did it makes compared to knobies. Now I'm looking for even harder tires, since my commuting is stickly on road, and I love speed .
I was browsing around for tires when I found those : https://www.conti-online.com/generato...ix_mtb_en.html,
and I saw they could go to 120PSIMax (rec 95PSI)...
Anyone use those? Are they any good? Will I burn in hell for putting "road" tires on an MTB?
Oh, one more thing, my suplier has them for sale, but 2 different kinds: Folding tires and normal. What is a folding tire?
.I was browsing around for tires when I found those : https://www.conti-online.com/generato...ix_mtb_en.html,
and I saw they could go to 120PSIMax (rec 95PSI)...
Anyone use those? Are they any good? Will I burn in hell for putting "road" tires on an MTB?
Oh, one more thing, my suplier has them for sale, but 2 different kinds: Folding tires and normal. What is a folding tire?
Folding tires will do just that. They have a Kevlar bead and will fold up into a small bundle for shipping, carrying a spare, etc. Wire bead tires have to stay pretty much round, just as you would mount them.
I used nothing but Conti GPs on my road bikes for years. I loved them. The only reason I don't have them on my Homegrown is the 1" width. You would have to have really narrow MTB rims for a 1" tire to work right. If they start making a 1.25 or 1.5 I'm in there.
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02-23-05, 02:37 PM
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how would I know if my rims will support 1"?
