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Conbtinental has come out with a GP5000S and a GP5000TL
On 11/02/2019 10:28 a.m., Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-10 06:52, Duane wrote: wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:56:22 PM UTC+1, Joerg wrote: On 2019-02-09 09:52, wrote: I learned pretty soon that paying more than $20 for a road bike tire is a waste of money. In fact, they can be worse than expensive tires. Similar for MTB tires. That depends on your riding conditions and requirements. I ride on good roads on my road bikes and get 4500 km out of a Continental 4000S(2) rear tire and expect the same from the 5000 so price is not that important. Lou I get about the same mileage and very few flats.Â* I think I’ve had one flat in the last 10,000km and that was a tube giving out when I hit a pothole hard.Â* I ride on roads but I can’t say they’re always good roads. Maybe Joerg is riding his road bike on single track carrying 4 gallons of water or something... No but lots of hills. That seems to cause a lot more rear tire wear than riding in flat lands. Some roads aren't that great and some are unpaved where the fancy expensive tires failed in their side walls too often. For example, when I tested Gatorskins three out of four prematurely failed with side wall damage. One actually blew a big hole out its side. Vee Rubber tires and many others do much better in that domain. They are more sturdy. So now I am buying those which has also brought a nice cost reduction. Use what you want but your experience is not my experience. I do a fair bit of climbing and on some pretty crappy roads but I still get close to 5000km on a pair of Conti GPS 4000 tires. Works for me. |
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