Originally Posted by
Zorba
I ride the roughest, most crap strewn road on the planet. If I have significant problems with the Marathons, I'm going to solid tires.
Please don't do this. I tried it a few years ago as an experiment for commuting on similarly crap-strewn roads. It was awful. You may think you can't tell the difference between the rolling resistance of various tyres, but you would with these. If i tried to maintain my usual speed I used to arrive at work exhausted, they were so crap. And if you ride over rough roads your rims actually start to shave the side off the tyres. Truly, truly horrible.
The good news is, you won't have significant problems with the Marathon Pluses. I've had one flat in 7000 miles with them. Just inspect them now and again and pick out the bits, to give them a chance, and they will reward you.
The Duranos are also a great tyre.