700 Tyre Recommendations

joker77

I need help!
2 punctures in 3 days, 1 in the front and 1 in the back, and I'm thinking maybe I need new tyres! At the moment I have Continental ones that came with the bike, about 4 months old, and have got about 5 punctures. I'm thinking commuting 3-4 days a week through our building site of a town (Dublin), that this is probably average-to-good with skinny tyres!

I've heard that the Specialized Armadillo tyres are the Daddy - I usually shop in CycleSuperStore out in Tallaght and they don't stock them there, where would one lay hands on them in Dublin? Is this the tyre in question:

Specialized All Condition Armadillo

Would there be much of a difference between them and these:

Vittoria Open Corsa Evo

Continental Ultra Gator Skin DuraSkin

Alkers

Do you have them pumped up hard enough? Can make a big difference. What tubes are you using? If your tyres allow it, some MTB tubes will be tougher than road ones.

Itsfixed

or these:

Schwalbe Marathon - a bit heavy but bulletproof. you also break your fingers getting them on the rim.

Continental City or sport contacts

The specialised tyres you can get in Cycleways in parnell street.

Panracer Pasela tyres are great, good puncture protection. Hvae them on my bike at the minute. They've only lasted a year though.

I'm planning on getting the conti ultragatorskins in 28mm when the paselas run out. right balance of weight and performance and protection, i reckon

joker77

Simona1986 wrote:

Do you have them pumped up hard enough? Can make a big difference. What tubes are you using? If your tyres allow it, some MTB tubes will be tougher than road ones.

I thought I did alright, they're pumped pretty hard... any way of knowing how hard they should be?
I just have basic tubes, fiver jobs, the tyres are pretty skinny 700x23 so MTB ones wouldn't fit.

Alkers

It should say on the rim of the tyre what the reccomended pressure is. I'd tend to have 'em near the max reccomended for on-road use. A lot handier if you take 'em to a petrol station.

hunnymonster

I vote for the specialised armadillo's as well. I've about 7000 miles puncture free on mine!

joker77

hunnymonster wrote:

I vote for the specialised armadillo's as well. I've about 7000 miles puncture free on mine!

They're the ones I've gone for, popped up to Cycleways on Parnell St at lunchtime and picked them up (cheers for that Itsfixed)

Hopefully I can get a few hundred miles up without a puncture - 7000, feck that's some going!