Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour

Plus Tour is the versatile Plus: a purposeful trekking tread over SmartGuard. Bike Society uses it when the bike might do school runs one day and a packed overnight the next.

The tread is more open than a city slick and calmer than a trail knobbly. It stays composed on bitumen and still works on packed dirt.

SmartGuard is the thick anti-puncture belt Plus is known for. If you are tired of roadside tube changes, this is the family to start with.

A robust carcass copes with luggage and imperfect surfaces. It is not a lightweight — it is the tyre you stop thinking about.