New Favorite Tire - Schwalbe Hurricane

I'm interested to try Hurricanes on 42-622 wheels of my touring e-bike. Marathons E-Plus for that size turned out to be excellent on road and gravel but appeared to be problematic on dirt and shallow sand. Did you try to ride some off-road on Hurricanes, @Alaskan? What type of terrain? What tyre size?
 
Stefan Mikes said:
I'm interested to try Hurricanes on 42-622 wheels of my touring e-bike. Marathons E-Plus for that size turned out to be excellent on road and gravel but appeared to be problematic on dirt and shallow sand. Did you try to ride some off-road on Hurricanes, @Alaskan? What type of terrain? What tyre size?
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The Hurricane is fine for hard-packed dirt and gravel roads. Less good for softer dirt and sand, and not at all good for very muddy roads.
 
Mr. Coffee said:
The Hurricane is fine for hard-packed dirt and gravel roads. Less good for softer dirt and sand, and not at all good for very muddy roads.
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....and it is superb on paved surfaces, extremely quiet and easy rolling, great traction on both dry and wet pavement, better on roads than the Super Moto X and way better off road as described by @Mr. Coffee.

I just installed new chain, cassette, chain ring, and brake pads on my Delite Mountain as well as replaced the front fork and rear shock with the Fox Factory Float Kashmina fork with an added 10mm of range and the rear shock upgrade as well. I put the Fox performance fork and shock off the Delite on Nancy's Homage, which took the travel from 80mm to 100mm. What else should a cyclist do while waiting for an inflamed tendon in the foot to resolve? The final addition to the Delite Mountain was a pair of 27.5x2.6 Schwalbe Johnny Watts. I will post my impression once my foot is better and I have gone on a few rides with it.

www.schwalbetires.com

Johnny Watts | DD, RaceGuard | Black | 27.5x2.60 | Addix | 11654091

THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR SUV BIKES. Like no other, Johnny Watts unites smooth rolling on hard ground with longevity and puncture protection. Off-road instilling confidence, while on pavement rolling whisper-quiet.Versatile tread for a wide range of use fro…
www.schwalbetires.com www.schwalbetires.com

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Alaskan said:
....and it is superb on paved surfaces, extremely quiet and easy rolling, great traction on both dry and wet pavement, better on roads than the Super Moto X and way better off road as described by @Mr. Coffee.

I just installed new chain, cassette, chain ring, and brake pads on my Delite Mountain as well as replaced the front fork and rear shock with the Fox Factory Float Kashmina fork with an added 10mm of range and the rear shock upgrade as well. I put the Fox performance fork and shock off the Delite on Nancy's Homage, which took the travel from 80mm to 100mm. What else should a cyclist do while waiting for an inflamed tendon in the foot to resolve? The final addition to the Delite Mountain was a pair of 27.5x2.6 Schwalbe Johnny Watts. I will post my impression once my foot is better and I have gone on a few rides with it.
www.schwalbetires.com

Johnny Watts | DD, RaceGuard | Black | 27.5x2.60 | Addix | 11654091

THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR SUV BIKES. Like no other, Johnny Watts unites smooth rolling on hard ground with longevity and puncture protection. Off-road instilling confidence, while on pavement rolling whisper-quiet.Versatile tread for a wide range of use fro…
www.schwalbetires.com www.schwalbetires.com
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My next Spring tire set! ;)
 
DaveMatthews said:
I shall be (schwalbe?) curious how that goes. Their site is not good guiding you to what tires are/are not tubeless ready. Unless I'm an idiot and they all are.
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They should be more specific, true. A good guideline is a tyre being "folding" (as opposite to "wired"). Typically, a folding tyre is tubeless ready. In this context, Johnny Watts are tubeless ready ("folding tyre") and Smart Sam or Hurricane are not ("wired tyres").

Once my brother did the tubeless setup on my Trance wheels, he tells me not to go back to tubes. The things should be easy as he put no sealant into Ice Spiker Pros for the winter.

RandallS said:
Looks like we may need to form a Johnny Watt sub-forum! ;)
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We should at least make a new thread in "Parts and Accesories" :)

Going back to my original question on Hurricanes. My Lovelec e-bike allows tyres not bigger than 42-622 (28 x 1.6"). I'd love a low rolling resistance but off-road grip so good my e-bike were not stopped by even thin sand over hard. Perhaps Smart Sams would be the proper choice?
 
FlatSix911 said:
Great review... thanks for posting. ;) I am a big fan of Schwalbe tires with high protection levels that are eBike rated.

Here is another option with a higher Level 7 protection rating and a central rib for the road with side lugs more aggressive off-road traction.

Marathon Plus MTB

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+2 for the Schwalbe Marathon Plus MTB's. I've been using them on 3 of my bikes for 2 seasons now with no issues. The 26x2.25 size however has not been available in the US for some time. I wore out the rear tire on one of the bikes and had to order a replacement from Germany.

@Alaskan, Thanks for posting the info on the Schwalbe Hurricane. I may try them on one of my bikes but the 26x2.25's are also unavailable in the US.
 
got a set of Schwalbe hurricanes to test out on our tandem. out was hard to find 700 x40's found them in the uk bought from eBay 70.00 for the pair with free shipping. hope I don't miss the flat protection of the other Schwalbe tires we are using.
 
I put the 29" Hurricane Performance tires on my bike last fall and love them. Very quiet on roads, even with the Tannus Armor inserts. But now I'd like to try mounting them tubeless. Schwalbe sells the same tire, Hurricane Performance Rigid Black as tubeless ready in the 27.5" size but no mention of tubeless for the 29" size. Anyone try mounting the 20" tires tubeless?
 
Alaskan said:
Schwalbe has come out with a new tire for 2020, the Hurricane. I have been riding on a pair for two weeks now. In the main, middle tread, the tire has ridges of micro knobs, similar to those found on skinny gravel tires, with a center strip of fine ridges. There are aggressive, bulky knobs at the edges. It offers 5.5 protection rating with a rating of 4 across the board for rolling, road grip and off road grip.

I have been riding mostly on Super Moto Xs. My riding is mostly on paved rural roads but I do like to explore logging and fire roads. We have several packed gravel trails as well. Finding a tire with low rolling resistance, good traction wet and dry and good grip off pavement has been a tall order.

This tire is whisper quiet on paved surfaces and rolls very easily. It is a very fast tire, almost as fast as Marathon Supremes. The traction on road and trail is very good, verging on excellent. It is sure footed on wet pavement as well. The protection level is only 1/2 a mark lower than Super Moto X tires. The rolling resistance is the same as is the road grip but they are 1/2 mark better on off road grip. To me they feel like they are actual better off road by a greater margin and they are noticeably quieter.

They are quite affordable at $41 usd for the 27.5 x 2.4 size Double Deffense Race Guard with reflective side wall stripe.

For me the new Hurricane fits with my riding better than any tire I have ridden on. This tire comes across as the best all purpose tire I have ridden to date.


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Thanks, @Alaskan. This review and subsequent discussion gave me the confidence to order a Hurricane (29x2.4) for the front of my old rigid steel 29er frame with a TSDZ2 motor. I am very happy with the result. I had been running Big Apples (28x2.35 front and rear) for several hundred miles and love this combination on pavement or hard pack. However, just about every one of my rides includes some stretch of unpaved surface, be it hard pack, gravel or loose dirt. As I said, the BA, essentially a slick, managed the hard pack well but as a front tire had no lateral bite in gravel or loose dirt, especially when transitioning at speed from pavement. I am fine with the BA on the back end both in terms of traction and lateral control but the squirrelly front end was causing me to slow down considerably in those loose unpaved conditions. Conversely, the Hurricane up front keeps the bike pointed in the right direction; no more slewing as with the BA. The Hurricane feels just as planted and fast on pavement as the BA and hasn't slowed me at all on curves. I anticipated there being a noticeable transition from the center tread pattern to the outer knobs in cornering but nothing as such has manifested itself. I will wear out the BAs as rear tires (they won't last long with a combined 120 kgs of bike and rider) and then my equip my Frankenbike with Hurricanes on both ends.
 
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