Originally Posted by
talphie
Kapusta,
When you mention fragile, have you had a lot of flats? I was considering these with tubes even though my wheels are tubeless ready since there seems to be a fair amount of comments about the specific sealant and how well the tubeless tires seal up. But with tubes, I’m guessing you run more of a risk for flats. So, it sounds like you’re using tubes? I’d be on the road or paved trails almost exclusively, so is my concern flats or less mileage than other tires?
I tend to be very lucky puncture-wise. Only gotten I pucture in the 3 years I’ve been running Compass tires.
The biggest flat problem I had was with pinch flats on the 32s from hitting potholes or other square-edged hits on the road. I could get around that by running higher pressure, but since a big advantage of these tires is being able to run them low without lossing speed, it was not something I was happy about doing.
Moving up to the 35s, I could run the pressure where I wanted to without the pinch flat issue.
I found the 32s to come up about 1.5mm smaller than average compared to how other tires in that range measure. The 35s and 38s are pretty true to size.