Originally Posted by Guy Burns
This is something I've been fooling around with for the last few months and I thought someone might have some better ideas.
On long tours, tread on my 26 x 1.9s wear out in a few months. I want to extend that time by sticking something on the outside of a new tyre. If I could get a 1000km of wear out of the added tread at the start of a trip I'd be happy. Here's what I've tried:
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The idea alone is scary. But what's really scary is how much effort you put into testing various alternatives. considering that Nashbar sells 26 inch slicks as low as $10 and you could probably get some even cheaper at walmart, I can't see any reason to do this. I'd sure hate to be going downhill when one of these 'pretreads' starts peeling off!