28-10-20, 08:22 PM
(28-10-20, 07:59 PM)coffee link Wrote: and what about tyres? you can get a decent set of Michelins for my car for around £80 a corner and get 20,000+ miles no sweat even decent sports /tourers for a bike are around double that and you'll be replacing a rear in 5000 if you're lucky !I used to think like that until one day whilst filtering I felt a bump from the back wheel, when past the blockage and normal riding I could still feel something but it went away, I then got on the motorway for the quickest way home, got off and found a long nail somehow had gone in the tread and out the side wall :eek . I had just gone down the motorway with that. The disparaging bumps were the nail folding over. I was still just about able to ride it to the tyre shop the next day.So since then I have never winced about the cost of my bike tyres
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.