Kenda City Slick Mountain Tire K838,Black,26x1.95" Pair

Kendra 838 City Slick is an amazing alternative mountain bike tire if you’re riding mostly paved roads. Installed a set of 26x1.95 on my older 21 speed Mountain Trek replacing a great set of Boontrager LT3 knobbies.. Kendra’s have less rolling resistance and effort on pavement.. highly recommended

These tires are great and a sweet deal. I ride with my girlfriend now. We stick mostly to the road. The hum of knobby tires is gone and the roll really nice in comparison to knobbys.

Updating this review in January 2025. Finally replacing a pair of these after 14 years of steady use. Tread is still OK but the rubber is cracking down to the casing in the grooves. Can't complain after so many years, so much use and so much weather. These tires have a directional tread; better to channel water away from the center of the tire. See the attached photo for the sidewall marking. BTW-this is opposite from the advice of the Amazon AI Checked the Kenda website and looks like these are no longer made by the company...but are still available online from other sources. Just bought a replacement pair from "Bike Liquidators" for less than $40 for the pair. Figured I'd do it now while still available....probably no hope they will still be around when this pair wears out :-( Bike still going strong, Bafang kit still going strong, me a little slower, but new tires are great :-) Original Review - June 2024: Put a pair of these on a 1999 Cannondale F1000 with a Bafang mid-drive 750W electric motor kit. I use this bike for commuting and errands. Replaced a pair of Maxxis Holy Rollers and the Kendas are much better for pavement, gravel and smooth dirt; improving both speed and distance. Handling is great and quieter than knobbies too. I use Sunlite puncture resistant tubes, adding weight, but hey, it's got a motor. Extended hard shoulders on these tires also increase weight a little but give a wider profile on soft ground and protect the sidewalls from damage. So far, so good, knock on wood. Installed the tires many years ago and they are still rolling just fine; wear is minimal but starting to show age. Probably need to think about getting another pair sometime and will definitely replace them with another pair just like the current pair. Highly recommend.

My housemates ebike of pain, which he beats the absolute hell out of needed new tires. As he is an astonishingly poor SOB who offloads all of his problems on everybody else, it fell to me to yet again repair this god forsaken pile of crap into getting him to work because he's to much of a drunken dip to have a license anymore and even if he did, he'd launch the nearest car into a ravine or a wandering pile of ducks. Since I spent a couple hundred bucks replacing the entire drivetrain, rebuilding the wheels, and using these tires as the basis for a whole Slime conversion (12oz/tube), plus fancy french cloth rim tape I haven't been bothered with random late night screams of "hey, A Human, my bike broke again pweeeeeeeze help me I won't ever pay you but you'll be a good human, right?" And for that I am eternally thankful. Buy these tires if you want smooth rollers to replace the BS mountain bike tires that every Amazon ebike manufacturer seems to insist on equipping their poorly designed festering piles of garbage with. Buy these tires if you're so sick and tired of patching tubes for someone else you'd rather huff paint thinner. The last two months of not being whined at have been worth the $45 for a pair. I don't know if they're puncture resistant and frankly I don't care. All I know is they're handling a 50lbs ebike that should otherwise be put in a smelter and my housemate, an incredibly huffy man who contorts himself into knots to make his problems everyone else's (all while complaining about his sciatica) hasn't uttered a peep. Good tires in my book. Buy em.

Much much better quality than anything my local bike store sold. I would say at least a third more thick. Yes, that means heavier, but these things are very durable.

I bought 2 sets of these tires. Great price Seem to be high quality, time will tell

I use these on my mountain bike which I ride soley on pavement any more. They work great there. They hold their pressure and they role smooth with as little resistance as one could expect. They seem to be wearing well too. I will probably buy another set once I've worn these down, but that will probably be a while. They were very easy to install.

Pulled a pair of 2.125" mountain bike tires off an old bike and install these. They fit fine on the original rim, with no clearance issues and make for a super fast and comfortable ride on pavement. It's made a huge difference in the comfort of the bike.

Bonito diseño y durabilidad

thanks, excellent replacement quality for the bike

Pretty good, no issues so far.

I bought these tyres for my Wife's bike, as her originals had perished. AU$27 a pair delivered is a great price for Kenda tyres. I love the tread pattern on these tyres - it seems they are designed to have minimum road footprint while upright, I assume to try and reduce the rolling resistance. They are very chunky (wide) however - the standard semi-road tyres fitted to the bike originally (have added a photo of the old tyres for comparison) were 48.5mm wide, these measure 54mm. They have caused no rubbing issues though, even with the mudguards on the bike. I expected them to be a fair bit heavier, but I weighed them, and they were only 40grams heavier than the originals (910grams as opposed to 870grams). Overall, for the money, I am very pleased.

Fast delivery and better than I expected. Thanks