On 08/15/2014 04:10 PM, Patrick Moore wrote:
Because theoretically you end up with the 2 tires wearing out at the same time, thus avoiding the annoyance of being left with an unusable rear and a usable front.
And when you're getting there, you have a nearly worn through, squared off tire up front and in back? No thanks! Unless you are an inveterate tire-hopper or are planning to quit using that bike when those two tires wear out, you just put the usable tire in the back and put a new one just like it on the front, and life continues to be good. Where's the annoyance in that?
Well, if you insist on matchy-matchy and your tire company keeps changing the look of the tires, I suppose you could end up throwing away a perfectly usable tire. I suffered for a couple of thousand miles with a yellow Axial Carbon in back and a gray Pro2Race in front on that account, and it did make me grit my teeth every time I looked at the bike. But I persevered, and eventually did wear that yellow-stripe tire out.
Of course, I don't use armored Schwalbe tires, either...
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com <mailto:palin...@his.com>> wrote:On 08/15/2014 03:47 PM, 'hangtownmatt' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote: Anne, I'll agree that Sheldon's philosophy is applicable to some tires, but I think it's safe to squeeze in a couple/three rotations on these Schwalbe's. Why would you want to go to that extra effort? You end up with the same result following Sheldon's "new to front, front to rear" method with far less shuffling.
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