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DISCLAIMER. MOUNTAIN BIKING CAN BE DANGEROUS. YOU JOIN US AT YOUR OWN RISK.
SAFETY BRIEFING.
- Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
- Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
- Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
- When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
- Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
- Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
- Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.
Photo: CAMMTB Winter 2022-23 rides have been posted up - please click on the Runs List link..
well i'm running "Rocket Ron's" and they are my winter/mud tyres, but as Claire has so eloquently pointed out before, they are NOT mud tyres.
the choice is yours, but as long as you are on a bike, and the bike is upright it is the right tyre. IMO
que Dom, and a large narative on wheel size, profile, rubber compound, tread pattern depth and pros and cons of different manufacturer and whether they are best used as tubless or not and even if tubless is best and why, with multiple links to anicdotal evidence from random websites as proof.
happy new year Dom
And probably perfectly spelled, Pat. 
I will be there mud or no mud 
It turns out that tubless means 'without a tub' - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tubless. Who knew?
On the basis of how wet the ground is at the moment, three things spring to mind:
a) I landed this morning after a night flight back from the USA, and am consequently knackered, so will not be going anywhere, and
b) I would recommend that anyone going out tonight does not take a tub with them, and
c) On the question of whether tubless is in fact best, even Google can't help me. This is a tubless bathroom, but no comment is passed on how good it is.
Dom
