Originally Posted by Andy_K

I read somewhere that if you have multiple pairs of shoes and rotate them they last longer than the same number of shoes would last if you just wore one pair every day until they wore out and then got a new pair. I'm not clear how that works, but experimentally it seems to be true. Maybe it gives the rubber time to decompress? Anyway, I'm working on the theory that the same thing will work for bike parts. There may be nothing to it, but I feel like it would be irresponsible not to try.