Tyre life?
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Tyre life?
Postby worzel » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:55 pm
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby Razorwolf » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:57 pm
Denpends on:
a) how hard you ride the bike
b) how much emergency braking happens
c) quality of tyre
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby worzel » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:58 pm
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Postby Razorwolf » Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:03 pm
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby ironhanglider » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:35 pm
Tyres don't always wear out.
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby il padrone » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:28 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby KGB » Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:42 pm
I made the mistake of leaving some conti supersonics on after a race once. Barely 1000km and I was looking at threads on the rear - they are purposely paper thin though.
As already alluded to, you won't "wear out" a lot of tyres mostly due to cuts and slashes which can happen more easily as the tyre wears.
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Postby Dragster1 » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:48 pm
So truelobstermash wrote:Tyres you don't like never puncture and last forever...
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Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:45 am
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby queequeg » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:51 am
This is not usual for me as a rear tyre usually lasts about 12,000km from new, at which time I move the front to the rear and fit a new front tyre. However, the last time I replaced the rear tyre I had a used spare tyre that was in slightly worse condition than then front, so the used spare was rotated in and the front stayed put.
I reckon there as about another 3,000km left on the rear, so I should get to 25,000km.
The tyre....Schwalbe Marathon Plus, 700x28c
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby clackers » Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:28 pm
Eyeball the wear, Worzel. The tread pattern in itself is not important, it's the wear of central belt that is.worzel wrote:Roughly, what sort of km should you get out of a tyre before it needs replacing? I have a commuter bike with 700x23C tyres on it. My commute is a mixture of road and shared bike/foot path with the usual tree-root launches, broken glass etc.
My commuter does eventually pick up enough glass that cuts in the tyre make it necessary to replace.
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Postby Aushiker » Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:54 pm
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Postby worzel » Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:53 pm
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby ldrcycles » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:09 pm
Sadly this doesn't work with the $15 tyres i use on 27" bikes, they work beautifully but i haven't had more than about ~1500kms out of one yet, a lot less if there's dirt roads involved.
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby rkelsen » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:25 pm
Have you ever compared car and bicycle tyres side by side?worzel wrote:That's a lot given my car has had a new set only once in 6 years (at 30,000km)
There is a (very simple) reason that bike tyres don't require balancing...
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby KGB » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:29 pm
That's a useless comparison. About the only thing they have in common is that they are both (loosely speaking) made of some kind of rubber.worzel wrote:Thanks all. So I could be looking at replacement every 3-6 months. That's a lot given my car has had a new set only once in 6 years (at 30,000km)
Generally speaking, at 6 yrs old a car tyre probably isn't very safe anymore anyway.
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:38 pm
However when I rode a bike i stuck with 1" (700) of no particular branding and, thinking back to how many tyres I think would have bought, I reckon I may have managed over 10,000km a tyre. But I stretch it a bit and often moved them from the back to the front wheel and didn't worry too much about tread. For those who have not realised it yet, a small diameter rounded cross section has no trouble squeezing the water away.
You could resist the temptation to have the narrowest and hardest tyre on the block.
These days 3,000km on 24x1.75 is about what I get. Just as well I only have one to replace.
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby worzel » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:07 pm
My comparision had nothing to do with the quality/pressure/width etc of the tyres, merely the time interval between replacement. I will have several services between sets of tyres on the car so plenty of opportunity to be notified, if I haven't already seen it myself, that the tread is getting low. But with maybe 2000km to a bike tyre that could be as little as 3 months if I commute to work on my bike twice per week and do another ride at the weekend. My point is that that is more frequent than a car service and a lot more frequent than a new set of car tyres so I need to be aware/have a spare.KGB wrote:That's a useless comparison. About the only thing they have in common is that they are both (loosely speaking) made of some kind of rubber.
Generally speaking, at 6 yrs old a car tyre probably isn't very safe anymore anyway.
I also didn't say I have had the same car tyres for 6 years, they will be due again soon so 3-4 years per set on low km.
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby clackers » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:27 pm
Sure. You could probably get more km out of a tyre with a quite hard compound, but it will probably grip less. For commuting, possibly fine. Cornering in the wet on a roadie, maybe not.worzel wrote: My point is that that is more frequent than a car service and a lot more frequent than a new set of car tyres so I need to be aware/have a spare..
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby rkelsen » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:43 pm
So your commute is >30km each way?worzel wrote:[But with maybe 2000km to a bike tyre that could be as little as 3 months if I commute to work on my bike twice per week and do another ride at the weekend.
Regardless, 2,000km is a short life even for racing tyres. I was fairly big starting out (>106kg) and have generally managed to get at least twice that much out of a 23mm rear tyre, even riding on crappy paths every day. Fronts last at least 3 times longer. I don't do what everyone else seems to do and shift the front to the rear. I just replace the rear when it wears out.
I've currently got a set of Schwalbe Marathons on the commuter. It'll be interesting to see how long they last.
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby tekapo » Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:12 pm
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Re: Tyre life?
Postby worzel » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:40 am
Yep, 32km which is why I only do it twice a week. It is also behind my question - if I have a tyre bulge (had it happen a few times way back in my teens) its a long walk home so I would consider changing the tyre if it had clocked up a lot of km even if it showed no major signs of wear.rkelsen wrote:So your commute is >30km each way?
I could probably walk to a station in an hour from anywhere on my route but rather not. Whether I ride or get the train I leave home about 6.30 and get home about 6pm so my only chance to buy a spare is at the weekend. And if it is a weekend I am away diving etc it could take me weeks to get back on the bike.
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