Depends on the tire characteristics, your riding style, road surface
material and climate, just like car tires. Grippier tires will wear earlier
because of the softer compound. Hot climate will certainly wear tires
faster; if you do a lot of hard pedaling or fast club rides, chances are
you're putting more road friction on the tires, and for example, here in S
Florida, many of the road surfaces we ride on have hard coral mixed into the
asphalt, so it can be harder on tires too. You need to look at what you're
doing to your tires.
BTW, 1400 miles is not bad wear for a set of tires, again depending on the
conditions. If you had said 400 miles, I'd have really wondered. I like
Hutchinson Carbon Comp tires. They wear very well, but still have good fast
cornering characteristics (I use em in crits, but I'm only Cat 4, so we're
not cornering at 30+) and pliable enough (even at 140PSI) that on long
rides, I don't start cursing them out.
Hope this helped....
Dave
"cheg" <
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> I have been running Conti Ultra Gatorskins on my road bike and lost the
front
> one to a sidewall blowout last week. I noticed that he rear tire is worn
through
> most of the tread pattern after about 1400 miles so I replaced them both.
Is
> that a reasonable life span for quality tires? I'm curious how often
people
> normally replace tires.
>
>