Conway, I barely got 1500 miles on my rear before the tread was very thin and the sidewalls were starting to go. The front sidewalls were getting very frayed as well. They actually were showing significant wear at 700-1000 miles. I love these tires they are fat and grippy an really ride well on dirt and singletrack here in NM, but they are very soft, and for me riding rocky trails at altitude (7300feet+) the thin tan sidewalls do not last. My recommendation is to run these as mostly off road tires and get blackwalls. I am not a huge fan of how they roll on the road, they are pretty buzzy, but they are great for mostly off road mixed terrain riding. They are at their worst for long road climbs. I think if you actually got 2500 miles on the rear you really did get your moneys worth on them, though. I am not sure I get anything like that on any high performance tire.
Good luck, Tarik On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Conway Bennett < captainconwaybenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason I'm asking is when I was riding home last night my rear wheel > started thumping and felt like it was yawling. I thought the wheel was out > of true but it is new with maybe 100 miles on it. I finally stopped and > realized the casing on the skinwall is splitting on the non drive side a la > '80s garage bike dry rot. FWIW I bought these in the summer of 2013, > rotated them in 2014 and I split time on my SH with Bruce Gordon R&Rs and > my QB with lil Big Bens so maybe 2500 computing miles on them. Bikes are > stored inside. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Tarik Saleh tas at tariksaleh dot com in los alamos, NM, USA, po box 208, 87544 http://tariksaleh.com all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
