Continental Contact Urban Folding Tyre - Black with Reflex - 16 x 1.35 35-349

I loved this tyre, and got about 1200km out of it on pretty horrible London roads for about 3 months and were way more comfortable and grippy than the Marathon it replaced.

However, the sidewall recently failed on my rear tyre (seemingly very prematurely? there's still a lot of life left in both it and the front tyre that I replaced at the same time) and, searching online, this seems to be a relatively widespread issue with this tyre. I never ride underinflated and top-up to 90psi at least once a week, so I'm kind of sketched out as to how this happened. No other tyre I've used has had a sidewall failure, let alone failed so "young".

Maybe you're willing to take that gamble, in which case I liked them while they worked, but for me I'm back to the trusty Marathons.

I recommend this product

I have fitted these to one of my Bromptons. They go on easily without reorting to tyre leversand I run them at about 90PSI. It is a super smooth ride with noticeably less rolling resistance than the Schwalbe Marathon Plus that they have superceded. They are much cheaper too. The folding bead allows a spare tyre to be carried in your bag too if you are touring.