Originally Posted by
erig007
kms doesn't mean much as it more a matter of where you go with it. If you ride on roads full of nails, broken glass and rocks then it won't be long before your tire give up. If the roads are pretty clean and you are lucky not to encounter any surprises on the road then kms/miles could add up pretty fast without too much trouble.
I have two different rear wheels, one with a 55$ gatorskin that got puncture 5-6 times in the 4000-5000 kms I rode with it and one with this cheap tire that gave me 9000 kms on the same rural road (lots of potholes, pebbles, etc.) without any flats, I may just be luck but the statistics are against the gatorskin. The big difference is that the gatorskin still look almost as good as new.