DONNELLY X'Plor MSO Foldable Tire - 700 x 40
The DONNELLY X'Plor MSO foldable bike tire offers plenty of traction and versatility for bike touring and adventuring, whether you're climbing fire roads or crossing through corn fields.
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- Named for the airport code of Missoula, Montana, home of the Adventure Cycling Association, the X'Plor MSO tire is ready for your cycling adventures
- Closely spaced center knobs roll well on roads and packed dirt; tire shoulders have a cyclocross-inspired tread for traction over loose surfaces such as grass, gravel or dirt
- Puncture protection belt helps prevent flats
- Clement X'Plor MSO foldable bike tire has a folding bead; 60 tpi casing
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View all DONNELLY City and Commuting Bike Tires| Best Use | Bike Commuting Gravel Cycling |
|---|---|
| Wheel Size | 700c |
| Tire Width | 700C x 40 MM: 40 millimeters |
| Bead Type | Folding |
| Thread Count Casing (tpi) | 60 threads per inch |
| Tread Type | Knobby Tread |
| Recommended Pressure (psi) | 35 - 55 pounds per square inch |
| Weight | 700C x 40 MM: 475 grams |
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Great on gravel, trails, and pavement
I’m running this 40c MSO as a front tire and the 35c USH rear. Rolls great and good traction, especially when you lean the bike around turns. Excellent on the road, slower not too much slower than more road oriented tires. Typically I stay around 50psi (180lbs). Great on singletrack, I’ve bent my wheels but not pinched a tube through rock gardens! Slick rock does not agree but excels on hardpack. Gravel grips very well. Only issues are when it’s really dry and chunky I’ll spin up steep grade but it catches quick. On loose high speed gravel turns if you commit they seem to grip the more you lean. Hoping the MSO stands up as well as the ush tires in the past.
Awesome Tires
I bought these to replace tires with a more aggressive, off-road tread pattern. These provide a seemingly perfect combination of tread pattern for gravel while still rolling smooth on pavement. After several hundred miles of breaking them in, they were the tire I chose for doing the Dirty Kanza (100 miles of gravel roads in the flint hills of Kansas). That ride is known for trashing tires and I never had an issue. I've probably put another 1000 miles on them since and still can't think of anything I would change about them. Best tires out there for gravel, commuting and general riding.
Can handle anything you throw at them
If they made these wider, I would put them on my trail bike. I just did a 90 mile, 10k vert gravel/trail ride on them, and from smooth dirt roads, to roads just graded with car-tire-puncturing rocks ('gravel' would be putting it really nicely), to the ledge and mud ravines that pass for Jeep trails around here, these things were awesome. At least on hard surfaces, they grip as well as mountain bike tires that weigh three times as much, and I had no punctures or rim damage despite many hard hits on sharp rocks. They roll fast, weigh nothing, and are pretty damp and comfortable on chattery roads. Buy some, they're awesome.
Smooth on road solid on dirt
All of my rides start with at least 3-6 miles of paved before dirt and on pavement they are smooth and quiet. However with a rating of 55psi max, there is a bit more rolling resistance compared to the previous kenda kwik I had which was rated up to 80 psi. On dirt they have good grip and absorption for a low rolling resistance Tyre. On losse gravel the tread compound isn't quite aggressive enough for solid traction but on a standard unpaved road these Tires shine. Oh and also they are named after my hometown so how appropriate
Great all-'round adventure tire
Have used these for about 5 years on a Cross-Check. Most miles are commuting, but also a fair amount of fire roads and some single track. Handles it all well. Even use it as a rear, with a studded tire up front, for winter commuting.
Fast tires
I bought two of these tires for my cross bike and they worked great. I did not know that my bike could be that fast. I used them on gravel, dirt and some rocky roads. They also work great on paved roads.
Solid tarmac and gravel tire
These are great tires for urban/ greenway in that you can run em on the high- end recommend pressure and they still have tarmac and gravel traction w some puncture resistance
Donnelly X"Plor MSO Foldable Tire
Superb tires for gravel and road biking.