have been using Panaracer Trailerraker's for a while now and they are terrific in the gloopiest muddy singletrack and very puncture resistant, but pretty heavy making accelleration and climbing tougher.
having read this months article in WMB on mud tyres, i have bought a set of their recommended 10/10 bontrager mud x (from south downs bikes who were really helpful to a little old lady, such nice boys) to see if they perform as well as the trailraker, but give a lighter ride with better climbing.
will report back shortly on the outcome.
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Shall be very interested to hear how you get on with these. I am on my second winter of using Trailraker 1.9's and although they are good, I struggle on the road climbs.
The one consolation is when you remove them and put summer tyres back on, you feel as though you go up a gear. I pretend it's extra training!
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have just finished testing out the 'bonties' and am very pleased. much lighter than the trailrakers but grip is just as good. getting started on climbs is easier and getting over that last bit at the top when it kicks again and your already in your smallest gear is much easier. even really slick, boggy muddy hills not a problem. took them through the foulest hampshire winter gloop and they sucked it up. definitly recommended (the tyres that is, not the gloop).
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 What width did you get?
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hmmm... think I might try some, am meant to be getting the other half some mud tyres for Chrismtas as he has pinched my trailrakers!
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 Or he can keep them and you can get new tyres for you.
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well, i am thinking that these maybe sound better so i might be able to have them :-)
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 I have just bought the Trailrakers after pondering for a while and compared to my Cinders they are great, interesting to note about the Bonti's though will bear them in mind for next purchase.
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 I have just bought soem Trailrakers, having read somewhere that they are designed especially for the Peak District and Yorkshire mud in winter! Went for aride on Christams Day with hubby who has the Bontis. Very ikky mud. My tyres were always much cleaner, emptier and grippier. So on the ride at teh same time - seems the Trairakers were "best" but then there's no accounting for riding style - he is much more aggressive than me.
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 I'm glad to read that people like their Bonty Mud Xs - just bought and "installed" some today, primarily because they were the cheapest ones on the rack. :-p
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So, dumb question, have looked for some of the mud x tyres online and all of them say that they are tubeless ready, is this right, or is there a non-tubeless version?
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You can still use them with a tube in your ordinary old non-tubeless wheels. :-)
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Yeah, I just wondered if the there were tubeless and non-tubeless and the tubeless ones were heavier, seeing as I didn't want to go tubeless, wanted to check! So, I think you have answered my question :-), that's what I suspected, ta
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 I've just fitted trailrakers on my Rockhopper and think they are brill. Went out with the lads on Christmas morning and my tyres shed the mud and gloop much more quickly than anyone elses.
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 The Feb MBR has a review on mud tyres and the Panracers come out tops....
All my tyres are panracers as they are the only ones who do a wide range in 1.8, all of them have been fab - I agree with Caroline, my tyres seem to shed the mud much quicker than everyone else
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Just commenting on the new jerseys, I think they are a good buy, and a good design.
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I got my Panaracers from Merlin Cycles - they are still doing a package deal on a pair of tyres. Worth a look methinks
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Hi, thanks for the info,I will keep this in mind.
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i think cos i'm riding trailraker with slime tube, just tips them onto the heavy side. probably just right with standard light weight tubes.
any observations on their puncture resistance claims. whats the oldest trailraker out there (that gets ridden regular, that is)?
so far, touch wood , mine have held up but that may be me being a woos...
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