Originally Posted by
Hiro11
I'll go against the grain. I personally can't tell the difference between a cheaper tire and a more expensive one assuming they are both slicks. Maybe there is a difference, but it's pretty small...I agree that pressure is a much larger component of tire comfort than the rubber itself.
Me, too. I've tried everything from $9.99 PBS clearance-sale tires (in the old, $9.99 tire days) to high-end Contis, Michelins and others. Sometimes I can feel a difference, sometimes not. I've done the same 25-mile RT commute 75-100 times a year for more than 20 years, on all kinds of bikes and tires, and there's almost no correlation between tires and speed. My fastest time ever was on an old Bridgestone mountain bike with 1.4 combination tires.