Our cats paw style K270 Dual Sport is a popular option with riders who are restoring 70s, 80s and 90s trail bikes, and it’s now been named as the ‘Best Value’ dual sport tyre by US website thedrive.com.

Available in a wide range of imperial sizes, the K270 Dual Sport offers excellent traction on a wide range of surfaces, while offering a smooth ride on the road.

Nikola Petrovski at The Drive tested 13 sets of dual sport tyres in total, including the likes of the venerable Continental TKC 80.

Summing up in his review, Nikola said:

“Our best value pick from Kenda is an affordable, DOT-approved tyre that would be an ideal replacement for your OEM tyre. It’s also rated for a 40/60 street to off-road ratio and therefore offers the perfect compromise between off-road traction and smooth highway riding. You can see this from the depth of the tread combined with even, widely-spaced but not particularly nobbly knobs. It features 4- and 6-ply rated casings, but the rubber is fairly soft, resulting in a quieter ride with much less vibration than you’d expect from an aggressive tyre. This does mean that it’s not exactly stiff enough for top speeds on the highway (it’s rated P for speed), but it is superb in sandy and even deep mud, even without side lugs.”

You can find out more about the K270 Dual Sport here.