Teravail Sparwood

Overview

Why Sparwood? Well, Teravail designed this tire specifically for the Tour Divide, a 2,700-mile ultra-endurance bikepacking race spanning through Jasper, Alberta, and New Mexico. Over time, the Sparwood turned out to be much more than just a bikepacking tire, it is now one of the best all-rounders in the tire market.

The Sparwood is available only in the 29er/700 x 2.2″ option but knowing Teravail, we expect them to pump out other sizes soon. It features an almost oval-shaped profile and shares the same tread pattern as its gravel-oriented sibling, the Cannonball. Typical of most all-rounder tires, there is nothing knobby about the Sparwood’s tread; instead, it wears a packed, directional center tread in a sloping V-shaped pattern between a more widely-spaced series of small knobs, with prominent L-shaped knobs completing the shoulder tread.

Teravail describes the Sparwood as a tire designed for “jeep roads, twisty single-track, gravel track, and paved connecting sections.” That range sums up what the Sparwood is all about: a multi-terrain bikepacking tire, the sort that you will ride to the last tread, just to buy a new pair.