Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
If you want good prices on Conti tires, you need to order them from Europe. REI sells GP4000s for the same price as all the local bike shops I know of in town: $75 per tire. I bought four of them from Ribble.co.uk for $37 each (that includes shipping) recently.
I use the GP's on Gina's bike since she gets really good mileage out of them. I'll have to look into that site, good price, we paid $64 at our local LBS. But that might have been a year ago, had it sitting in the closet and installed it 2 weeks ago as I plan ahead at times
But I don't use them on my bikes since most of my riding is fun training rides. I'll get "maybe" 2000 miles out of a GP4000 where as Gina gets 4000 miles. If I can't use a Serfas type, I will use an Armadillo. Yeah, lots of people say they are too heavy for climbing and feel slow but I'm climbing and 5000 miles out of a tire without a flat is worth the $45. 2000 miles out of a $65 tire, not for me.
Gina's 4000 miles yes but not me.
But I will take a look at that site.
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