Anonymous wrote:
What exactly are we paying for that makes up the enormous difference in
cost/mile between car tires and bicycle tires? I recently replaced four
car tires for about 200 dollars after about three years. Sometimes I get
a glass cut in bicycle tire and only get one ride!, more typically I
might get four months or about 2000 miles. Even with a *budget* $20 tire
this ends up costing me about twice as much as the automobile tires for
the same period. To make bike tires last longer would require more
material and cost performance due to weight and feel less responsive,
but it's kinda funny that the current highest performance tires have
even less material so should be cheaper in some sense but cost more.
Maybe it's just me but I can't tell any difference between most road
tires when riding except for the weight differences.



Dear Anon,

I understand that, on a weight basis, many of the garments available
from Victoria's Secret are scandalously overpriced and flimsy when
compared to sturdy coveralls.

Equally outraged,

Carl Fogel



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