Tires again... Oct 2016
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:37 am
On the ride home yesterday Lee and I stopped for a cool drink. And while sitting there the talk turned to tires, my tires in particular. Before my trip to Vermont for MSTA's STAR and on to Nova Scotia I mounted a set of Avon Trailrunner tires I think they are a 90/10 tire. On the way home just north of Boston the rear tire was gone. So we found a dealer in Boston that had a tire that fit and they would put it on now. That was a Continental Conti Motion $120 for the tire but $82.50 to change the tire on the bike. They wouldn't allow me to take the tire off and remount in the parking lot. So I only got 4,945 miles out of the rear Avon Trailrunner.
So now that ContiMotion is gone too.
That's 2,812 miles on the ContiMotion. Lee says he loves ContiMotion tires that they are soft and stick but he runs them off in 1,800 miles (rear) and gets them for $90 and like me changes his own. Also I am only running 36 lbs in the rear.
Another side note the front Avon is still on and really has a little life left and has 7,857 miles on it. Hmmm perhaps I can run two rear tires to one front.
Here are the tires in the rack waiting to go on the Tenere. [THUMBS UP SIGN]
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So now that ContiMotion is gone too.
That's 2,812 miles on the ContiMotion. Lee says he loves ContiMotion tires that they are soft and stick but he runs them off in 1,800 miles (rear) and gets them for $90 and like me changes his own. Also I am only running 36 lbs in the rear.
Another side note the front Avon is still on and really has a little life left and has 7,857 miles on it. Hmmm perhaps I can run two rear tires to one front.
Here are the tires in the rack waiting to go on the Tenere. [THUMBS UP SIGN]
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