Which Tyres?

that's disappointing....

GK walls are too brown to go with purple surly... :(

form > function

nice site. not enough gumwalls in stock...

Have you seen them in the flesh? The brown wall gravel kings are the perfect shade i reckon. Not too pale and not too dark.

not really ... images can be deceiving, they are dark in some, lighter in others...

Get some. They'll end up dirty anyway.

About 38mm actually, the Loup Loup is my favourite everyday fast tyres.

I'll tell him tomorrow

Good to know. They ok for light off road? Where do you buy them from? Out of stock everywhere...

I have been very happy with the Maxxis DTH for road and gravel, don't really know about rocks. Sidewalls do seem fragile.

Also hear good things about the Tioga Powerblock but no experience, will get those once the DTH's wear out. (or throw some money at a pair of Rat Trap Pass')

I brought them three years ago, current tyres did over 3,800km including commuting.

YMMV, they hold up fine for me (one puncture in 2017).

I have mentioned this to him, he is going to update the website to have a (hipster) gumwall search option.

(you can now search for colour and gumwall/tanwall will be an option)

@TomvanHalen @LeMesjeu

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into those

Yeah the only strike against them is that they can't be run tubeless. Only the wider ones in 650b can...

GKs can be run tubeless. I am not running tubeless on anything but was considering making the switch...

Well done. :)

Panaracer don't actually state that GKs especially the file tread is tubeless compatible.
You'll be hoping that the rims and tyres match up.
Only the SK and 650b are officially tubeless compatible.

This season I have been mostly loving
Corsa g

Can anyone tell me the difference between panaracers Pari-Moto and the gravel king (both 38x584)?
Looks like an almost identical tyre?

They are

Pari moto are tanwall, while GKs are brown.
Treads are subtly different but not sure if it matters much.
The 650b GKs are tubeless compatible

They are different tyres.

The Pari-Moto are lighter tyres with a different casing, the 38mm is 300g, and the 42mm is 330g (there's even a 47mm version for 2017).

The Gravel King in 42mm is nominal 410g.

And Pari-Moto isn't tubeless compatible. Ask me how I know.

(edit: whoops, meant to answer to @Simba)

The 650x38 GK is also stated as 300gr

But yes, holding the pacenti(Pari-moto) in hand and comparing with GKs (don't have any 650b though) is sure feels that the pacentis sidewall feels more thinner/lighter.

The 650b gravel kings have the pacenti logo on the side walls...

Pari-moto is the one that have the pacenti, but no pacenti wording on the sidewall, only on the packaging.

The 650b gravel kings that I fitted to a customers bike the other day had pacenti logos on the sidewalls.