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Age to change tyres?


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Where I live, the only time my trials tyres see daylight is when I'm out riding and it takes about 5 years from new for Michelin X11 to go hard enough to noticeably lose performance and about 15 years to when they start falling apart

 

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Depends how competitive you are. I can notice a slight hardening of the rubber to the touch after a year. I can notice a slight performance drop in a couple of years old tyre, but i typically practice on tyres 5 or so years old and they are more than adequate. I have tyres on my older bikes over 10 years old that do the job of thrashing about, but if i was going to compete on them id put on a fresher tyre

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On 5/11/2020 at 11:38 PM, retromlc said:

I checked the date stamps on the bike, the bike is a '13 and tyres are 2011 and 2012, I guess they should be replaced with new rubber, although they have virtually no wear, thoughts???

Thoughts?

Its not a road bike, you are not travelling along tarmac at 60mph, save some money and give them a go.

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