Originally Posted by
Lawrence08648
I always rotate my tires and prefer to rotate them every 1,000 miles but I'd say do it every 1,000, 1,500, or no more than 2,000 miles. I prefer to buy 2 new tires rather than one tire and I also like to try different brand tires so I rotate mine to even the tire wear.
I do notice when I rotate them, the front handles differently for a few hundred miles until the front tire wears in.
I don't know anything about "good" tire goes on the front. If the tire is bad, throw it out. If good refers to the most tread, that's bogus, bike tires don't have much tread to begin with, most are flat, slicks, no tread, so that doesn't make sense. I think the good tire goes on the front is a misused term for bike tires from car tires. Car tires the best tires goes on the front. What good that does to a bike tire, I don't know. Again, the tires are bald to begin with.
Tread is the rubber, not the pattern in the rubber. Slick tires are not bald tires. Bald tires show casing threads through the tread.
A worn tire is more likely to have a blowout, which would be more dangerous on the front, but other than that there really isn't THAT much reason for the front tire to be better than the rear... it just works out nicely to buy the new front and swap the rear out... once you decide on the kind of tires you want to keep buying.