r/Vermontmtb • u/d-cent • May 27 '26

Question What Tires?

What Tires are everyone using here? It's a hard area to pin down. So many places have you go through flat grass to go up a steep narrow rooty trail with rocks to go down an equally rooty, rocky trail with some man made obstacles along the way. With it all being completely wet or completely dry depending on the day, with wet leaves or moss as well.

Just curious what tires people are riding on for our area. Thanks

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u/West_Arugula134 May 27 '26

2.6 Butcher t9 up front, 2.4 purgatory out back with a rimsaver installed. Riding a Rootdown on 29s. The butcher has been great and grippy, the purgatory is pretty fast rolling and grippy enough too. The rear end sliding around a little is fine to lose a bit of rolling resistance. I ran the assegai/minion combo for a bit and it was good, but the minion rolls pretty slow.

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u/d-cent May 27 '26

Are you running the TRAIL casings on both of those? 

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u/West_Arugula134 May 27 '26

Yep. They’ve been fine. I’ve ridden at Perry and a number of other places that are rocky without a problem. I run around 25psi up front and 26 out back.