{"id":3650,"date":"2025-09-02T01:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:14:02","slug":"schwalbe-tires-still-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/schwalbe-tires-still-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwalbe Tires: Still Garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2021 I wrote about<\/a> my terrible experiences with Schwalbe tires and said they were garbage. My intent was to help fellow cyclists avoid the flats, manufacturing defects, expenses and hassles that I encountered. Fast forward a few years to 2025 and I just got a reminder that this is still true.<\/p>\n

I resurrected a 1980s mountain bike for a friend and for an upcoming multi-day gravel ride suggested he get a set of Continental Cross King tires. I’ve been using them for a few years and they have been excellent: tough and knobby enough to handle technical downhills (Tiger Mountain), while lighter and faster than common downhill knobbies like the Maxxis Minions. The Cross King is a good XC tire for all-around riding – the best that I have used.<\/p>\n

My friend ignored this advice and instead got a set of Schwalbe knobbies based on positive reviews he found on the internet. Over the next 2 weeks he got 4 flats on a mix of pavement & gravel riding, nothing even technical. He brought the bike back to me for other maintenance and the front tire was flat, so call that 5 flats.<\/p>\n

Fortunately that big gravel ride is still a couple of weeks away so I put those Schwalbe tires where they belong (the garbage bin) and installed a set of Cross Kings for him.<\/p>\n

Friends don’t let friends buy Schwalbe tires – ‘Nuff said!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2021 I wrote about my terrible experiences with Schwalbe tires and said they were garbage. My intent was to help fellow cyclists avoid the flats, manufacturing defects, expenses and hassles that I encountered. Fast forward a few years to 2025 and I just got a reminder that this is still true. I resurrected … Continue reading Schwalbe Tires: Still Garbage<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mclements.net\/blogWP\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}