The worst tyres you've ever had

[phantasmagoriana]

Continental Ultrasport. Very good if you need practice fixing punctures.

Agreed (and I'm a fan of Conti tyres generally: got 4000s on one bike and 4 Seasons on another, both of which are great).

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Schwalbe Marathon. If feels like riding though hot tar.
Michelin Wildslipper. Flimsy knobblies that visibly "walk" around corners.
Continental anything with strings that come off and catch in the brakes when the tyre gets a bit older.
Any road tyre with tread - bogus stuff.

 

[S-Express]

I had one of the first iterations the Specialized's Armadillo road tyres - they made any bike feel like it was riding on wooden cartwheels.

 

[jefmcg]

Marathon Plus in 16"/349. Until I got Park tool levers, I averaged on broken lever every puncture.

 

[palinurus]

Dai Yung

 

[Mrs M]

The tyres I had on my 1980 Halfords Cascade "racer"
2 punc****s a week.
None since, touch wood .

 

[Smokin Joe]

Hutchinson "Blue line" kevler, a 1980's abomination. No grip, as supple as tungston and regular sidewall failures.

 

[Brandane]

Pirelli Phantoms on my motorbike , stuck like shoot to a shovel, didn't last 2 minutes, followed by Yokohama !

If you haven't already done it, never ever fit Metzelers to anything capable of more than 25 mph.. No feedback at all, they felt as if I had tied planks of wood to my wheels. Bridgestone, Pirelli Angel, or Michelin for me these days.

 

[User33236]

Worst tyres I've ever had were Specialized Nimbus Armadillos. Moved to them following a spate of punctures on previous tyres, that came with the bike, and found the Armadillos punctured even more to the point I was ready to throw the bike in the bin and give up cycling.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Hutchinson "Blue line" kevler, a 1980's abomination. No grip, as supple as tungston and regular sidewall failures.

If I remember correctly the first puncture resistant tyres we had round here were Hutchinson, they weren't bad, rolled OK were a lot more puncture resistant than anything else we'd ridden, the problem with them was the tread on them could start to come away from the side walls, I replaced a lot of them when they still had life in them because of this, they were also prone to sidewall punctures.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The worst tyres I've ridden were a cheapy pair I brought, I had been unemployed/doing agency work and had only just got back in full time work, I was skint but had to have new tyres for the commuter, I can't remember what they were called but I was having punctures every week with them, as soon as I could afford it I replaced them with decent tyres.

 

[oldroadman]

Pirelli Phantoms on my motorbike , stuck like shoot to a shovel, didn't last 2 minutes, followed by Yokohama !

Not surprised, the Phantoms were more or less race tyres with a tread to make them road legal.. great for a short while as you say!

 

[Dirk]

Continental Ultrasport. Very good if you need practice fixing punctures.

Agreed - never had so many punctures with any other tyre.
Changed them for Schwalbe Duranos, after 2 weeks and 5 punctures on a new bike.

 

[clid61]

If you haven't already done it, never ever fit Metzelers to anything capable of more than 25 mph.. No feedback at all, they felt as if I had tied planks of wood to my wheels. Bridgestone, Pirelli Angel, or Michelin for me these days.

I'll keep that in mind thanks

 

[clid61]

Not surprised, the Phantoms were more or less race tyres with a tread to make them road legal.. great for a short while as you say!

Yeah never really a found a compromise between them and Avon roadrunners , never looked tbh . Had both 80s tyres lol