@bud_t@davidnewman Picked them because of the puncture resistance, lots of crud on the streets here. They ride a LOT SMOOTHER than the ones that were blowing out, LOL. Though I need to tune the tire pressure. Imagine NOT FEELING EVERY CRACK ON THE ROAD, ha!
@bud_t I'm thinking I should have changed these awhile ago. I thought I did, but the tube is disintegrating inside the old tire. Good thing I also bought new tubes. #biketooter#tubes
Survived my trip to the library and back, although one tire did go caterwonky and start rubbing against the frame until I straightened it out. Better go look up how to align those tires better. 🤔
After years of running high pressures (110+ psi on 21s and 23s), I’ve been finding lower and wider (<= 70 psi on 25s) is both faster and more comfortable.
@davidnewman@dynode@bud_t Aha! Your magic calculator tells me 99 rear and 95 front. I put them a bit lower based on some random Internet page and it felt a bit slower and spongy... probably because the bicycle + me + a backpack full of books was a lot heavier than your typical person racing around:
@ai6yr@bud_t It's taken decades for the racing world to understand what the engineers said all along...wider tires are LESS drag overall on anything but a perfectly glass-smooth surface.
All cyclists know that skinny tires give a rougher ride. Every whack to your ass represents energy removed from your forward motion. A taller sidewall loses far less energy over every bump.
@ai6yr One of the things I've had trouble understanding over the years is that at least for me, tires age less the more I ride. If I have the cycle in the garage or tarped outside for a long time, the tire goes flat and the tire itself starts disintegrating...
@glightly That makes sense, they say that's the same problem with car tires. I guess driving them regularly distributes the oils in the rubber and keeps it pliable... not driving them causes them to crack. (actually a risk with my car, now that I am not driving it very much)
@ai6yr@glightly That's interesting, I've had a similar experience. I had some Michelin tires completely disintegrate (dry rot?) while still in retail packaging after a number of years.
Other older tires, mounted on a bike that was ridden infrequently, but not-never seemed to still hold up.
@ai6yr@glightly I sort of complained to Michelin about this, and their rep said something like "The tire is 7 years old, what did you expect?" which, while true, was kind of annoying, since I had 2 new old-stock tires that I had to dispose of without ever using.
My partner had a different, worse experience - her Michelin tires of a similar age disintegrated while going down a hill on her bike, after she did a ride after a lengthy hiatus.
So maybe it's not whether it's used as much as the material? I don't trust Michelin bike tires anymore as a result of all this dry-rot. The older tires that are still holding up well are Panaracer tires.
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