Originally Posted by
WhyFi
No experience with Mavic tires, so I couldn't tell you what to expect with regard to durability, but it's concerning to me that the punctured area got worse.
Originally Posted by
PoorInRichfield
A lot of your punctures just sound like bad luck. However, I have a set of Mavic Allroad disc wheels on one of my bikes which came with 28mm Mavic tubes and tires. I don't know what it is about the set, but I've never had so many flats on a wheel set in my life and it makes me nuts. I don't know if their tires just aren't very puncture resistant or if Mavic just has bad juju.
Originally Posted by
Princess_Allez
I'm having the exact same experience with mavic wheels and tires; same tire, cosmic pro wheel. I'm on my fourth tire replacement in <1k miles. These tires don't like glass or sharp rocks; steer clear of them. I find myself paying attention to the grain on the road surface while riding, though you can't avoid everything.
I don't know why I didn't think of this yesterday, but I've been riding Hutchinson's Fusion 5 Performance 11Storms for the last ~3,500 miles. They're the same tires that have suffered both of my Goldilocks punctures - a cut too big to seal with sealant alone, but not big enough to ruin the tire - one was yesterday, obv, and another one last year, a couple hundred miles in to that tire's lifespan (and, IIRC,
Bah Humbug's troublesome tubeless foray was on the same Hutch tires).
This may be notable because Mavic doesn't make their own tires, and it's pretty well accepted that Hutchinson is the manufacturer of Mavic tires... so maybe I
do have some experience with Mavic tire durability. I'm not sayin', but maybe it is another data point. Other than those two cuts, though, they have performed well, seated easily, etc.