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Old 01-19-2012, 03:45 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
I've never had a bike rust out and have to be scrapped.

Bike tires contain far less materials than car tires, in average sizes.

Since I don't have a crotch rocket, my bikes' tire life isn't that dismal.
How many miles do you get out of a set? Sure, four tire on my cat at ~22lbs each is ~90lbs, but they'll also do ~100k miles, and I've never heard of people routinely getting 30+k miles out of two 15lb motorcycle tires. 10-15k average seems to be what the longer lasting tires are at, which is still two to three times the rubber a car uses. Crotch rockets are even worse.
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