For me the performance of the BAs has been everything I might hope for from big fat low pressure tires. They glide over the road, absorbing all obstacles, and the large contact patch sticks me to the road in any kind of the crazy wet slippery conditions I get so much of. Except black ice, I am currently using schwalbe snow-studs until the black ice season is over (considering switching back to the BAs tonight).

I don't notice the weight, or any meaningful acceleration burden.

They are bomber tough, we have wretched conditions for road debris. My 1st pair of BAs I went ~2k miles w/ no flats. My current bike I did replace the rear tire after 4k miles, basically when it started getting flats. 2k miles along the new rear tire now has treadwear that looks a lot like the front tire (which is ~6k at this point).

Again, I am curious about the marathon supremes but last time I looked at the schwalbe site, they give equivocal bullet ratings relative to the apples, they cost more, and then somewhere I picked up that factoid about supremes being better aimed at higher pressures than I've become accustomed to w/ the apples. Now I am curious about the BA 'liteskins'.

My bike is a 54cm LHT by the way, I am running 26x2.0 BAs w/ plenty of room for cascadia fenders.