I'm well over 4,000 on a pair of Schwalbe Marathon Supremes in 35 x 700 size, with one flat. The rear's getting worn, definitely on it's last legs, don't expect it to see 5K.
Before that was Panaracer T-servs in 32 x 700 that were great for 3k then started flatting and were pretty shot at 4k (front still had life but I changed both tires to Schwalbe). Panaracer Paselas were OK, maybe 2K-2500 but I got a lot of sidewall cuts messing around off-road. My fault, not the tires. 3K sounds like good service, esp if that's your first flat. In the good old days I could grind up a Specilizied Turbo S in less than 1K miles on the rear, with plenty of flats. As they say, your mileage may vary. dougP -----Original Message----- From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim McNamara Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:36 AM To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBW] Re: Tire Wear and Tear On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:41 PM, awilliams53 wrote: > How many miles should be expected from a set of tires? > > I'm riding on Panaracer Col De La Vie 650B Randonee tires with about > 3,000 miles on them, and picked up my first flat today. Fixing the > thing gave me the opportunity to inspect them more closely than usual > (while sitting by the side of the road) and I noticed that the tread > was work in places and some small cracks were evident. > > What has been others' experience? I don't know about CdV longevity, never having used them, but you've gotten more miles out of those than I normally get out of any tire on the rear wheel. I think the longest wearing 700C tires I have used have been Conti Grand Prix and Ultra 2000, which lasted about 2500 miles on the rear. Also, 1 flat in 3000 miles is pretty spectacular. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
