If only you could buy a tire that weighed 30-40 lbs for your bicycle, it would probably last 20,000 miles easy. But people don't pay extra for mileage in bike tires like they do with car tires. Bike people are impossible to please with regard to tires: lightweight, smooth rolling, indestructible, flat-proof, never loses air, tan sidewall, and, by the way, cheap!
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:09:14 PM UTC-6, Peter M wrote: > > Man I used to pay 100ish a tire for my car, granted they were cheap tires > but they still lasted 20k miles. I doubt the same could be said for these > tires. > On Jan 23, 2013 5:06 PM, "Steve Palincsar" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 14:01 -0800, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: >> > >> > Anyway, It's sort of funny to be discussing the high price of $85 >> > tires on a forum that's primarily concerned with $1000-3000 framesets, >> > $300 saddlebags, and other boutique items. >> >> If tires lasted as long as framesets or Berthoud and Carradice bags, >> nobody would think twice about an $85 tire. But they don't. They're a >> consumable, but it feels as though they're starting to price them like a >> capital investment. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
