I'm just riding a typical, entry level road bike. I bought these Atoms because they were on sale for extremely cheap, and yeah, the reason for that was probably because they were old stock. Which scares me a bit because before finding out about these cracks I also bought some more Hutchinsons that were on sale at Performance. I hope these ones aren't old stock as well...
Anyways, I happen to like hutchinsons because they actually are really easy to mount. I haven't had a single problem with any of their folding tires, I mount them without a tire lever too.