Lots of folks here on Compass tires! I had a set of Compass 26 x 1.75s on my LHT, liked 'em, and shod the Sam in Barlow Pass tires. Love love love the feel of these tire...nice and cushy, acceptable traction in the dirt, all around very nice...but not happy with puncture flats at a rate of one every 40 miles, and what I consider excessively quick wear on the rear tire. Jan talks up low pressure as the method for minimizing flats, and I know that environmental factors for punctures are very local in nature, but I ride in the Sierra foothills and Bay Area, run low pressures (around 50 psi), and get lots o' flats. I don't track mileage closely, but I added the tires in May 2014, and the rear tire was reading as 'halfway worn' as of September 2014 (Jan stipulates that when the longitudinal grooves disappear, the tire is halfway worn). Again, not sure of my mileage, but will certainly be less than 3,000 miles on the rear tire. I've toured very lightly with them (maybe 8 days all told), maybe that was a factor. Verdict is that I'll be going back to Panaracer Pasela Tourgards, or Marathon Supremes. I really liked Paselas for the price, and had very few flats on the Marathons.
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