Originally Posted by
J.Drop
That comforting to hear, was worried and took it really easily while riding yesterday. I'm still wondering how this happened to such a new set of tires. Most reviews spoke really highly about their durability and such.
There's n o need to wonder because it's fairly normal. It'll happen if/where there's some change in flex properties. It's similar to how roads will form parallel cracks where the blacktop overhangs the road bed, and you see it everywhere.
It's possible that your tire has a belt under the tread, and the crack is at the edge of that, or where there's a sudden change in tread thickness. But until/unless the tread starts peeling away from the tire body, it's just one of those things.