I've only got 83 miles on the tires so far, so durability has yet to be determined. I'm about to get up from my desk and go do 15 or 20 more. They still look new, naturally. No flats or anything like that. I used Vittoria latex tubes designed for 25-32mm tires. That combination feels phenomenal. So far from one day to the next I'll have to add 5-10psi of air back in due to leakage through the latex tubes, but that's just a little more than I had to add each day with butyl tubes to keep them at the same pressure for each ride.

It's actually hard to describe. At first I thought maybe they felt lifeless and dead because I wasn't feeling anything (or very much) from the tires. The more I rode and paid attention to the feel, however, the more I realized that I was mistaking vibration feedback up from the road surface as a lively feel. These tires absorb so much vibration that I don't get that constant feedback from every little bump or surface texture in the road. The feeling of being connected to the road, the confidence, traction, ability to turn aggressively, maneuverability, etc. is all still there. It's just a much smoother, quieter ride.

There's a 3/4 mile section of absolutely atrocious road surface that is part of several of my routes. It's horrible. It's been badly resurfaced in the past, it has major cracks and ridges in it, etc. With my old bike I had to slow down for a few hundred meters of that road because there were these cracks that were like 1-3" wide. On my old bike I'd have to slow down a lot, get up off my saddle to unweight the bike as I rode over the major cracks, and look for and aim to cross over the narrowest sections of each crack. And even then the larger cracks had such a jarring impact that I often feared I'd pop a spoke or worse. With the Lynskey and these 32mm tires, latex tubes, lower pressure (83-85psi rear and 70psi front is what I'm now running) I now just ride full speed down this entire stretch of road, including over those huge cracks. The narrower 1" cracks just register as a mildish bump now, and only the 2-3" cracks really jostle me at all, and even then the impact is more subdued, not as jarring, and I don't fear that anything will pop or break. The vibration and jostling from riding over that very poor rode surface, aside from the major cracks, feels reduced by at least 80% or so. I still feel something on it as compared to a really good road surface, it's just greatly subdued.

Keep in mind I'm a very heavy rider, currently at around 285 or so (and dropping). If you are of a more conventional cyclist weight you could run these tires at significantly lower pressures and probably experience even less vibration and jostling through the tires. Compass has a 35mm version of this tires that's tubeless compatible, and I'll probably try those after these wear out. I've run tubeless before on smaller tires that fit my old bike, and they felt much better. I can't imagine how nice the 35mm Compass tubeless should feel.