After using 700×28 Continental Ultra Gatorskins on my Surly Long Haul Trucker for 6,000kms, I started to carry heavier loads and decided to switch back to the 700×37 Continental Contact tires that came with my Trucker. Here’s how they’re holding up 10,000 kms later.

After going over a year without a bicycle tyre puncture on the Long Haul Trucker it was with great disappointment that my Continental Travel Contact rear tyre gave in to road debris and punctured a few months ago. I was riding down a steep hill when I began to hear a psssh noise periodically in [...]

A few weeks back I changed over the tires on my Long Haul Trucker and retired the Continental Ultra Gatorskins that were on there. They’d served me for 6000km of commuting, shopping runs and some longer 100+km rides and before I packed them away I thought I’d take some photos and show how they’d held [...]

Apart from the actual type of bicycle you decide to commute on, be it a mountain bike, hybrid, tourer or racer the next biggest decision the bicycle commuter faces is what size tires to run. Tires can completely change the feel of a ride (for better or worse!) and should be appropriate for the type [...]

Hands down the most frustrating aspect of riding a bicycle are tire punctures. When you’re running late for work, rushing to get your errands done so you can go relax or trying to get to a date on time punctures have a bad habit of striking at the worst of times. Many road bicycles can’t [...]