Originally Posted by
Abe_Froman
Well that is sort of my point. How many people with road bike race road races? I'm sure some do (obviously...), but it is a small fraction of the people with road bikes that ride.
The problem is when the average rider bases tire choice on rolling resistance to the exclusion of other aspects of tire behavior because rolling resistance is all they ever hear about.
The tires don't last long, get flats, wear through to the cords with one accidental skid and they blame the tires. Durability isn't the only trade off however. Worse case is that their low rolling resistance tire suddenly looses traction when pushed over the limit, especially in marginal conditions, and they blame the tires.
Everyone buys into rolling resistance as the metric by which all tires should be judged and sites like rollingrestance.com don't help. I'd like to see a site named suppleandpredictablebiketires.com