{"id":11980,"date":"2014-06-30T19:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2014-07-04T21:04:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:04:04","slug":"bike-tire-stats-continental-vs-bontrager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=11980","title":{"rendered":"Bike Tire Stats &#8211; Continental vs Bontrager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally pushed my last set of bike tires to the limit ~<em> 3,388 miles in this case<\/em> ~ and ended up with a flat tire last week and a brand new pair of tires this week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11982\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BikeTiresIMG_0613a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11982\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982\" alt=\"Continental and Specialized  Bike Tires\" src=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BikeTiresIMG_0613a-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BikeTiresIMG_0613a-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BikeTiresIMG_0613a-767x1024.jpg 767w, http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BikeTiresIMG_0613a.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old worn out Continental Ultra Sport and New Specialized Armadillo Tires<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tires that I just replaced were\u00a0<strong><em>Continental Ultra Sport\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&#8211; 700x25c. I wrote a blog post on these and my previous tires,\u00a0<strong><em>Bontrager Race Light Hard Case<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 700x28c, back in September of 2009. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=2062\">New Tires Blog Post Enter Here<\/a> for the detailed stats on my older tires.<\/p>\n<p>Well I keep <strong>detailed information<\/strong> on my bike tires and other equipment so now that the Continental tires have reached their limit (<em>or are well past their limit for other riders<\/em>) I have all of the details on how these tires compared to my previous tires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bike Tire Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bought 6\/21\/2014 Specialized Armadillo 700x25c $90.00<\/li>\n<li>Bought 9\/27\/2011 New Columbia Ultra Sport 700c25c $48.00\u00a0Miles used 3,388 2 yrs 9 mos Cost\/mile 0.0141677 Cost\/1000 miles $14.17<\/li>\n<li>Bought 7\/1\/2008 New Bontrager Race Light Hard Case 700c28c $80.00\u00a0Miles used 4,907 3 yrs 2 mo Cost\/mile 0.0163032 Cost\/1000 miles $16.30<\/li>\n<li>Bought 8\/10\/2005 Original Tires &#8211; 8\/10\/05-7\/1\/2008\u00a0Miles Used: 3,719 2 yrs 3 mos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have the latest stats on the various tires that I have used on my Trek 1500 over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Flat Tire Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well I was just out on a local ride not far from my house when I got my flat tire but I had checked the weather radar before I left and I did not have a lot of extra time before I saw some storms heading towards me.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately my daughter was home and was able to come out and save me before the storm hit.I slid my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.about-bicycles.com\/bicycle-bags.htm\">Topeak Bike Bag<\/a> off along with my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.about-bicycles.com\/bicycle-gps.htm#.U7IAvaNOXIU\"> GPS Bike Computer<\/a> then locked my bike so I could go back and get my van to pick it up. My friend called it my &#8220;SAG Car&#8221; like those team cars that follow around the racers in bike races.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a spare tire or a patch kit with me so I didn&#8217;t have a lot of options anyway. In this case it worked out well because if I would have taken the time to fix the flat tire instead of calling my &#8220;Sag car&#8221; to pick me up I would have gotten soaked. We had a major downpour!<\/p>\n<p>I do believe that it was the extremely worn tires that caused this particular flat so I was actually very lucky that I was not 20, 30 or more miles out like I was on some of my recent longer rides. I do plan on carrying a spare or patches (or both) on my next long ride so I don&#8217;t get stranded if this happens then.<\/p>\n<p>Speakin of rides&#8230; I did do a couple of new rides recently up in the Chain of Lakes area. Actually, I was on the<strong> Chain Of Lakes Trail<\/strong> in Grant Woods and the trail in the Chain of Lakes Park. I have photos but have not had a chance to post them and write the story yet. I hope to get to that soon and I will post an update here too.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you all are enjoying this excellent riding weather!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally pushed my last set of bike tires to the limit ~ 3,388 miles in this case ~ and ended up with a flat tire last week and a brand new pair of tires this week. 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