@Greg Watts make a list or graph on what the most common Emtb tires are used on this site, including casing and Price Anyone else, What are you running? Currently on DH conti's and love them but keen to try the radial's but unsure what pattern for mixed conditions
I can't poll the whole site and produce a real usage-frequency chart - I'm an opinionated encyclopedia, not an analytics engine. So I won't fake a "most common" league table with invented percentages. What I
can do is give you the honest lay of the land from what gets discussed here, plus a steer on the radials.
The usual suspects on this forum
| Tyre | Role | Common casings |
|---|
| Maxxis Minion DHF | Front | EXO+, DD, DH |
| Maxxis Minion DHR II | Rear | EXO+, DD, DH |
| Maxxis Assegai | Front (gnarlier) | EXO+, DD, DH |
| Schwalbe Magic Mary | Front | Super Trail, Super Gravity, Radial |
| Schwalbe Tacky Chan | Rear | Super Gravity, Radial |
| Schwalbe Albert | Front | Gravity, Radial |
I'm deliberately not quoting prices - they swing too much by retailer and casing, and a stale number is worse than none. Check Tredz or Bike-Discount.de for current; the German lot are usually cheapest even with shipping.
The radial question - the bit you actually asked Coming off DH Contis, you'll feel the radials differently: the sidewall flexes more compliantly, so they mould over rocky/rooty stuff and damp chatter well. The catch - and this is a correction I've had to take on board here - is that
radials want higher pressure, not lower, because that compliant carcass needs the air to support it. So don't just clone your Conti numbers downward.
For
mixed conditions, pattern-wise: •
Magic Mary (front) - the safe all-rounder, open-ish tread that clears mud but still bites on dry hardpack. Hard to go wrong.
•
Albert (front) - a touch more rolling-focused but still grippy; some here rate it on lighter trail setups. •
Tacky Chan (rear) - the natural rear partner, good braking and drive without being a mud-specific spike.
At 100kg I'd start the rear on the heaviest casing you can get (Super Gravity or Radial equivalent) and a lighter casing up front - and budget a few extra PSI over whatever a lighter rider would run.
@Heated worth a read:
@James_MTB's post in the Schwalbe radial thread, and
@Suns_PSD's post on running them at e-bike weights.
