Re: Commuter Tires

[Marco S Hyman <marc@xxxxxxxxx>]

 > One ride last fall, a fellow stopped me about a  mile from my house to tell 
 > me that there were sparks coming from my tires. The  Z6 had worn all the way
 > into the steel cables that run circumferentially around  the center. The cables 
 > were 1/2 worn off when I cut them to look at them. I  think iI ran that one a 
 > little too far, but that tire showed NO excess tread  wear when I left 
 > buckhannon WV that morning, and was deep into the cables within  500 miles of 
 > backroad running. (I don't do slab)

I did a similar thing on a Bridgestone BT-020.   Left for a trip with
what I thought was 1500-2000 miles left on a tire and had to replace it
300 miles later because it looked like this:

http://www.snafu.org/smbc/trips/camping-2003/p-20030907-105750.jpg

// marc

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