TYRES, The price of!

Anonymous

It begins again!

bails87

yeehaamcgee
Holy Jesus F*ck!!

supersonic

Ruuber is about £2.50 per kg. And as far as I am aware, £35 car tyres don't have kevlar beads, or dual compounds with additives, or kevlar reinforced carcasses, or are made to be as light as reasonbly possible. Many £35 bike tyres are just this.

h34e0f

supersonic wrote:

Ruuber is about £2.50 per kg. And as far as I am aware, £35 car tyres don't have kevlar beads, or dual compounds with additives, or kevlar reinforced carcasses, or are made to be as light as reasonbly possible. Many £35 bike tyres are just this.

Fair point. The engineering mehind bike tyres is a lot more intense, which is what bumps the price up. It's all to do with the tpi etc.

supersonic

Entry level tyres are decent enough. Maybe wire bead, hard rubber, 700g for a 2.2. It does the job, and for cheap.

Pay an extra £25 and you can get lower weight, better grip, more protection. Saving 150g for £20-£25 is a bargain in MTB terms. I think tyres are the single best investment a MTBer can make regarding performance and weight - and this is rotational weight too.

It always makes me raise an eyebrow when people with mid range bikes are willing to spend 100s on Thomson stems and seatposts or a CK headset for no benefit at all, yet stick with the tyres that came on the bike ;-)

jonnyashworth

couldnt agree more with supersonic on this one.

bennett_346

sorry this is still going on?

lemoncurd

Stop complaining, I just had to get a set of new tyres for my Veyron after a massive donut session in Tescos car park last night.

http://www.tyrepress.com/News/business_area/27/18526.html

wordnumb

bennett_346 wrote:

sorry this is still going on?

Are you tyring of the discussion?

bike-a-swan

wordnumb wrote:

bennett_346 wrote:

sorry this is still going on?

Are you tyring of the discussion?

top notch

bennett_346

wordnumb wrote:

bennett_346 wrote:

sorry this is still going on?

Are you tyring of the discussion?

What?

spongtastic

As my kids say

Blah, blah, blah. Blah blah.

getonyourbike

yay, another stupid thread has moved to the crudcatcher. This is definitely teh best way of dealing with them

cat_with_no_tail

getonyourbike wrote:

yay, another stupid thread has moved to the crudcatcher. This is definitely teh best way of dealing with them

+ Expensive potato

Fully-sprung

I get my tyres for £6 each at my local bike shop, they last about a year with my riding style doing 3.4 miles a day M-F for 195 days a year, so that's 663 miles a year which makes it 2p per mile. Plus the cost of dustcaps, headset caps, derailleurs, handle bar grips and what ever else the tw@s at school decide to ruin/gets consumed by general wear and tear, which makes it quite expensive actually. It's not just tyres that cost the earth you know.

sheepsteeth

to be fair, the man makes a good point.

a bike tyre costs more than many car tyres but its a fraction of the materials, we are being ripped off no matter how you dice it.

he's not comparing apples and oranges like everyone else here, he is just stating that there is more material in a car tyre yet they manage to cost less than many bike tyres.

i think he is correct and the rest of you are fools.

Anonymous

Well, someone's on form today!

Fully-sprung

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Well, someone's on forum today!

getonyourbike

Fully-sprung wrote:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Well, someone's on forum today!

That was the funniest thing I've see all year, ha ha ha :roll:

Fully-sprung

getonyourbike wrote:

Fully-sprung wrote:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Well, someone's on forum today!

That was the funniest thing I've see all year, ha ha ha :roll:

Gazlar

Fully-sprung wrote:

getonyourbike wrote:

Fully-sprung wrote:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Well, someone's on forum today!

That was the funniest thing I've see all year, ha ha ha :roll:

Raymondavalon

Car tyre manufacture process is very automated, they churn them out by the tens of thousands.

Does anyone recall seeing "Ride of my life" when Rob Penn goes to the Michelin plant to get his tyres and watches them being made? Well, there's a lot of human intervention in the bike tyre manufacturing process.
That justifies the cost...

/fact

jay12

Raymondavalon wrote:

Car tyre manufacture process is very automated, they churn them out by the tens of thousands.

Does anyone recall seeing "Ride of my life" when Rob Penn goes to the Continental plant to get his tyres and watches them being made? Well, there's a lot of human intervention in the bike tyre manufacturing process.
That justifies the cost...

/fact

jay12

my maxxis tyres have lasted me about a year. it'll be time to get some new ones when the high roller 2s come out this months