WTB Riddler 700 x 37 Gravel Bike Tire, Tubeless Ready Folding Bead, Lightweight Fast Rolling, Available in 60tpi or 120tpi with Black or Tan Sidewalls, Dual DNA for Adventure Rides

Ride rural Montana back roads and this tire performs great. Use 95% off road - gravel, dirt, rocks, - and these tires hook up well and the cornering knobs do the trick. When hitting the asphalt connector roads the tires have relatively low rolling resistance and I cruise down the road with ease.

It might be a stretch to accuse the vendor of deceptive advertising since the WTB label the tire is packaged with makes no mention of it either but this tire is TCS or tubeless compatible. But the vendor does not in fact include TCS in the product description. It is on the tire itself but it is a little late once you have the tire in hand. Big deal one might say. Well here is the rub. The original Riddler tire that came on my bike is a clincher style tube compatible tire. One could argue WTB should have called it something different to distinguish it from the original. Does this matter? Oh yes. These are pure hell to install on a non-tcs rim as I and others have discovered based on my reading of other reviews. And the first time I descended a hill I thought something was wrong with my brakes from the thumping. Upon inspection the tire was out of round. I thought the tire was defective. These may be good tubeless tires. But someone needs to step up and include tubeless compatible on in the product description. Maybe I am a dinosaur and am just spodda know what TCS means? Maybe the bay-area WTB folks have been inhaling too much? I think I'll stick to Continental et al. in the future. Guten Tag.

Taken out on county roads, unpaved or rough pavement. Fits on my Domane Al 2 perfectly. Only problem I have is getting the bead to properly seat, take the tire off and on again a couple times.

Great tire. They roll fast on dirt and tarmack. Cornering grip is excellent (Better than the XPlor MSOs I had on before). After 1200 miles the center tread in the rear is pretty well gone, but the side knobs still seem to hook up well in soft stuff. They do surprisingly well in mud and seem to shake it off quick. On gravel, I run 35psi front and 40psi rear (I weigh about 185lbs).

Good Product and price

Ordered this tire as a replacement for the 37mm WTB Riddler's than came on my gravel bike's WTB i23 rims.Turns out though that it is INCOMPATIBLE, only the wire bead versions of the WTB Riddler are usable on the WTB i23 rim, the bead of this folding tire is so tight on the shape of the WTB i23 rim that you will never ever be able to get it back off again! Normally, you remove a tire by pushing the beads into the center well of the rim all the way around, and then lever part of it over the rim. But WTB tubeless rims have a groove just inside of the hook, and the super tight bead of this mis-designed tire gets stuck in that groove and is impossible to push in towards the center to start the process of removing.A tire that CANNOT BE REMOVED is a tire than CANNOT BE TRUSTED ON A RIDE, since THERE IS NO WAY TO FIX A FLAT! Even people running tubeless have this issue, since if a tubeless puncture won't seal, you have to remove the tire in order to install a tube in it so that you can ride home - and THIS TIRE CANNOT BE REMOVED.So now I'm stuck with A TIRE I CANNOT USE.

These tires are good but the sidewalls do leak when you first install them with sealant. If you are going tubeless, make sure you ride them right after you put the sealant in them so that the sealant covers the inside of the tire well.You will at first see bleeding of the sealant, but that does stop once the sealant dries on the sidewalls.

Setup tubeless with ease. I've put tons of miles on various terrains (Gravel, Dirt, Mud, Road) Extremely light and fast rolling on dry surfaces. I ride these on group roadie rides averaging 20+ (I pump them 5 psi over the limit) and hang with the group with no problems.