Apparently tyres have a life span Growing up I have this memory of my dad always looking disappointed at me as I’d skidded my way through to the threads of another rear tyre... apparently tyres should last for ever. Well according to WTB that’s not the case, their sets of road tyres are set to last between 1,500 and 2,000 miles. My experience has been pretty consistent with that. So far a set of WTB Exposure 30c lasted 2,500 miles and my WTB Crossbone 35c lasted about 1,800 miles, before I began being plagued by punctures, and there is little worse than standing at the side of the road in the cold and wet trying to get your tyre reinflated. Having switched in the summer to some Schwable G-One speeds 30c which I’m really happy with, I thought I’d give the G-One allroads a chance over winter. Fitting these was an absolute ball ache, Joe Blow on his own couldn’t get these seated and inflated so I has to resort to some CO2 cartridges to get both tyres seated, then once I’d added some Steve Peat Sealant they appear to be leaking like a sieve, these being the 4th set of tubeless tyres I’ve used they’re by far the hardest I’ve had to install. I’ve got my fingers crossed they seal up properly overnight and I’ll be road testing them this week. I’m hoping the effort of installing them will make it all worth while. Note - these is really a lesson in reading all the way to the end of the item description when buying online. These tyres aren’t tubeless ready they’re Race Guard. Will have to wait and see how they perform.
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Mike GaskellI started commuting around May 2017, mainly to save the £45 a week train fare and get ready for the Dunwich Dynamo. Archives
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