Thanks for all the replies guys, I thought changing tyres all the time was a no no.
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Originally Posted by
Gas_Up_Lets_Go
When you say 'green lanes', what type of surface are you riding? As you are asking the question I am assuming that your are at the begining of your learning ?
I ride with Eduro tyres on the lane bike, but I don't think I could live with them every day due to the noise and vibrations, although off tarmac they are brilliant!
If I were you I'd forget the wheel and tyre changing for now, and get some good dual purpose rubber - TCK's for example. Ample off tarmac grip and reasonable on tarmac grip.
Having two sets of wheels means, brake discs, chain set, bearings, pads and all the hassel in changing them. Changing tyres will quickly leave you rims marked and scuffed, even with rim protectors you'll see a change if you change them often. I'm not sure on the tyre beads, but I'm fairly confident that aren't made for multiple changes, and you don't want it to fail on the road.....
You soon get used to riding with knobblier rubber, it's realy not a problem - in fact my enduro tyres have better dry road grip than any of the dual purpose ones I've tried - although if I get 1000 miles out of a rear I'm doing bl00dy well!
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Good post, thanks.
Your right I am a newbie, so much so that I have NEVER been "green laning" as such in the UK.
When I was a kid I used to run about off-road a lot, but then it was round local farm tracks, forestry land and mucking about at trial events, usually where I knew the farmers and the loggers as I used to pitch up and pitch in during my school holidays, either call it "work experience" or free child labour, but I got to drive land rovers, quad bikes, tractors, so I enjoyed it and did it through choice. You could never have a kid working on a logging site or farm nowadays due to health and safety.
Similarly I believe you need to find BOAT's nowadays too. In those days if you were riding somewhere you shouldn't have been, you only had to worry about getting shouted at by the farmer, now you can get done by the Police. So for that reason, I actually have no idea what surfaces I'll be riding on until I find out what my local BOAT's are like. I have friends who go down to Salisbury plain quite regularly so I'll be joining them in the new year.
On my holidays in Spain and Portugal I will be doing mountain tracks and loose rocky surfaces, but all dry, so the tyres that are on it will be good enough for that and I have a weeks experience of that too from a previous holiday. It's getting stuck in mud in this country that concerns me. Here are links to vids & slideshowand an album of some of the stuff I've done before in Mexico, but this stuff is easy (other than the heat!), did this with one had on the throttle and the camera in my left hand.
http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=CIMG3568.flv
http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=CIMG3572.flv
http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/d...t=3fdb78ed.pbw
Google'd the TKC tyres you mention though and had a look at them on Continental's website. They certainly look like they will provide more off road grip than I have the ability to use, so I'll probably get something like those and leave the tyres and wheels alone.
Thanks for the advice, much appreciated.