hey guys what's going on, Two Wheel Cruise here and today we're going to be talking about tires
so for those of you who are new to this channel my name is Cruise
I like to make videos here about my life here in Japan and cycling and everything
in between so I actually just got this package in the mail
pretty big as you can see this giant package so this was ordered through chain reaction cyclists
this video isn't sponsored by chain reaction cyclists it's just a really
good site where you can get stuff for cheap online shipped to Japan some
Wiggles also really good so I usually shop between the two but anyway I
ordered some tires on line so I thought I'd make a video talking about what
tires that I'm using what tires that I recommend for training and riding on
road bikes and also for commuting so let's go ahead and open up the package
and check these tires out
we actually got some mountain bike tires as well but we're not going to talk about those today
so right off the bat you'll notice there's a big difference between these tires and this tire in this box as well
as this tire here the key difference is this tire is folded whereas these tires
are not so there's a big difference between these are usually called
wired bead type tires and these are more like folding tires it really depends on
the tire but generally people say that the folding ones are a little bit easier
to get on and get off the tire just because they're a bit more flexible and
the wider tires tend to be a little bit on the cheaper side so you can save a
little bit of money by going with the wired bead route so let's go ahead and
go through some of these options so the first tire that I want to talk
about is one of my favorite commuting tires and this is a ....
Schwalbe I'm not actually sure how you pronounce
this so I so the company Schwalbe the model of this tire is the marathon from
whatever it online this is one of the more popular commuting tires so probably
most of you guys already know about this tire so starting with some key traits
about this tire it's really affordable it's not too bad it's about twenty-five
dollars or so for when I bought this online at a pretty standard price it's
got some water tread in the top it's got really durable thick protection if you
look on this chart here this is level five on the protection chart on their
chart one two seven and that's pretty darn
good I think so I've been riding these tires on my commuter bike my yellow
Schwinn madison for over two years now and I still haven't gotten the flat and
there's plenty of miles plenty of kilometers on that bike these are really
solid tires so I finally got some replacements for it right now so the
water tread on the top also on the side it's got this nice little white band so
it makes it stand out a little bit more while you're riding that's precise I
mostly go at 25 with my commuter bike because it's still a road bike it's
still a fixie there's not too much clearance for the tires if I had some
bigger space for a commuter tire I might go up to a 28 or even bigger they do
make some bigger sizes for this tire so you can easily get the bigger size there
anyway these are credibly durable I've written thousands of kilometers on mine
no problems never a single puncture and they really handle really well I ride in
the rain all the time really solid tire really great price point really you
can't beat it so solid recommendation for the Schwalbe Marathon tire so my
next tire that I ordered is also from Schwalbe well this is called their de
Durano.... living in Japan so long I lives my ability to pronounce like how
we pronounce things in English so the durano I'm guessing the Durano model
for the tire this is a new tire for me I haven't bought this one yet but there
was a fairly decent difference in price between this one and the marathon tire
that I just showed you guys this one on the protection level is only a four so
one level down I'm not sure how big of a difference that makes the previous tire
was a level Green this is a level blue protection whatever that means by their
standard the tread as you can see it's not nearly doesn't have as many water
lines as the marathon one does so it is a little bit less protected in that
sense but this was a lot cheaper this was only about for the marathon tire I
ended up paying about 3000 yen per tire so that's about 27 26 dollars and for
this one it was about 2400 yen so about 22 dollars so it's a savings of about
five six dollars so about twenty five percent though on these tires so a
twenty five percent savings in price might be worth it if these end up having
some decent durability these also seemed to weight a little bit less because
there's less detection but I'm gonna put these on and
test them out and see how they go if you've heard in these times before the
schwa Boulder ah no de Reynaud let me know how it's worked out for you they
had some pretty good reviews online so I'm pretty hopeful for these and if they
end up working good I might use these more and save a little bit more money in
my commuting tires these are also 25 with pretty much do that standard on all
my road bikes so I got one set of each of those the final Road commuting tire
that I want to highly highly recommend is the continental gator-skin most of
you watching this probably already know about these tires
these have incredible protection I've been riding these on my road bikes for
years and I still have yet to get a single puncture due to fault of the tire
itself any puncture that I got was just from wear on the tube itself so nothing
from the tire ridiculous level of protection I actually still race on
these tires are so smooth and fast as well so I actually use these tires to do
races I've raced in crits here in Japan on these tires
I've placed in crates and cat1 crits here in Japan on these tires it's not
nearly as light as some other racing tires that you might use but I'm right
now in my racing career I'm not really focused so much on results I'd much
rather have a tire that's guaranteed to not flat then just take the risk and go
a little bit lighter and have that lighter tire so talking about racing
tires that's a whole different topic that's not what we're talking about
today today we're talking about tires that will protect you from getting flats
and allow you to enjoy your ride and not worry about those things the bad point
about these tires is these are much more expensive than the other two tires we
just recommended these ones start up at about 50 dollars and if you're lucky and
you time you're shopping online right you find these on sale you can usually
get these for about forty dollars if you're really lucky you can get down to
35 dollars but again it depends on the type that you're getting there's two
types of these tires there is the folding style which I have
here which is more expensive than the Wired bead one which is the more open
style just like these two that we just reviewed so if you find it way cheaper
online make sure that you're getting the correct one that you want if you don't
want the wired bead one and you want the folding one make sure that you're
selecting the right one this one's usually at least about five dollars more
expensive than the wire feed one so keep that in mind so
yeah usually I can get these on sale for about 4045 dollars if they're ever on
sale I'll stock up on a few of them so when I need to swap them out I have them
rather than waiting and then buying them at full price later if I can't get them
on sale definitely worth stocking up on a few of these because you will use them
eventually so these are handmade in Germany really great product highly
recommended I've raced these on gravel road races I ride my road bike
everywhere and actually I have these on a lot of my bikes right now I have these
on my road bike I have these on my wife's road bike I have these on my
cyclocross bike and I ride everywhere all right on dirt roads all right on
mountain bike trails and again no problems incredible durability on these
incredibly fast rolling you can still participate in races on these so if
you're looking for a commuter tire that you can still ride hard and fast and
keep up with everyone this is the one that you want to get if you want to save
money and still have something incredibly durable go with these rubble
marathons you can't go wrong with both of them the only problem with these ones
is they do have a bit more rolling resistance so you're not gonna be able
to go quite as fast as you would with the Gator skins but these probably do
handle a little bit better in the rain I do have to say can't go wrong with both
of these but anyway hope you guys found this video useful if you have any other
suggestions of Road tires that you can use for training or commuting that I
didn't introduce in this video I'm sure there's a bunch of other ones available
let me know in the comments if you have any other cheaper solutions more durable
solutions more puncture resistant solutions by all means please let me
know please let everyone know in the comments and we'll maybe check those out
in the future when we need to get some more new tires anyway that's it for
today's video thanks for watching if you like these
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see you next time here on tool cruise
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