Michelin speediums are the worst tire ever!!!
 

6th flat in a couple weeks, i have never flatted so much, its like they attract crap and then say "hello glass, come right in and slash my inner tubes!" i am taking them of and burning them tonight!

are they so bad that you'd make a thread about them on an online bicycle forum?

also: stop running over glass :hammer:

sometimes it's unavoidable.

for the record, bontrager race-lite hardcases let you run over glass whenever you want.

maxxis refuse...

glass proof...

trust

thanks for the feedback d*ck
yes they are so bad. the next time someone says "hey, I think ill buy some speediums, lets see some reviews..."

and it is not all glass, i somehow got a car fuse stuck in one the other day. thank you other people for real advice!

What do you expect from a cheap tire?

yea. Continental Ultra Sport tires are also really really bad tires

DUDE. I have Speediums on both my front and rear wheel. I have only had this setup built and rideable for a few days, and haven't had a problem....yet. It's funny you should mention them b/c I never have seen any other reviews and they were cheap and made by Michelin, so I figured they would be okay. Maybe I'll get lucky...I hope cause I really can't afford new tires right now. I got mine for 20 bucks a pop from Ben's.

Also, I have Ultra Sports on my road bike and have gotten tons of flats. TONS. ughhh. what should I get instead?? Gator Skins??

order your tires from Probikekit.com from now on. You get free shipping and the prices are much lower than getting tires in the states. You can get gatorskins for $26

you get what you pay for

speediums are cheap

I'm using Speedium 2 and i've had 1 flat in a little over a year. And the piece of metal I pulled out of the tire would have punctured practically any tire. They've been good and cheap. I just keep my tire pressure around 110psi.

yes speediums are cheap, i actually bought them for 20 for the pair (thats too cheap). I actually put some conti ultra sports on (a brand new pair I had laying around) Im sure they will suck horribly as well but i am just fed up with the speediums.
my other bike has Vredstein Fortezza SE which were a bit pricier, but I have never had a flat, ever and i ride both bikes in brooklyn equally.

lesson learned, buy good tires

Used speediums for about a month without problems.

GP4000S, ftw.
gatorskins are puncture resistant, but run like garden hoses.

Ultra sports are the absolute worst worst worst tire ever.

I've never tried Speediums, but I always assumed they must be garbage.

Gatorskins are great, and last forever. I almost never flat with Conti Gatorskins.

I currently use a Michelin Krylion on the rear and a Michelin P3R on the front. I feel like this is the best of both worlds (puncture resistance and fast). I flat maybe 1 or 2 times a year.

I have a pair of Lithions sitting around, which are a grade above Speediums in the Michelin hierarchy, but I have yet to try them. I heard they are reasonably good.

I almost never skid, BTW.

soma everwears are the truth....but yeah i learned early with tires you get what you pay for...

Hm using conti ultras right now, is it me or do they make a lot of noise? I actually hear them rolling on the ground, or it might me something else who knows.

Yeah, unfortunately cheap tires are indeed cheap tires. I ride Krylions in Detroit (proper). I rarely have issues, and that is saying something because we have streets full of Detroit Diamonds (safety glass), glass bottles, metal scrap, etc.

I have flatted twice due to debris that would have flatted any tire. One of the instances actually destroyed the tire, but yeah.

Good tires are worth the money. I tend not to want go get flats in the areas I ride through.

All tires make noise. The acoustic properties of your rim has a lot to do with it. Seems my deeper rimmed wheels are noisier, regardless of tire.

I know what you mean, they sound like they are sticky or something. After you ride them for a bit they will lose this noise, but the rolling resistance must be horrible, I mean they sound like they are covered in adhesive. I have never heard noise like this in tires

I checked this site, and the only links they have in the 'tyres and tubes' section are 'road folding', 'road tubular', 'mtb tyres', 'cyclocross tyres', and 'innertubes and accessories'. I thought tubular tires were the kind with no innertube, and folding tires were the kind with a softer bead. Aren't we talking about non-folding, non-tubular tires? Pardon me if I'm getting my terms wrong; I was just really excited about inexpensive prices on nice tires.

tubulars are the kind you glue to your rim. If you haven't had to mess with glue, you don't need those.

Most likely as a mail order place they'll only sell folding clinchers because a non folding clincher would be expensive to ship via the mail. For all practical purposes, a folding and non-folding clincher is the same tire except that one of them you can fold up when it's not on the rim.

Okay, thanks.

the tires you want to look at from them is "road folding" [aso called "open tubular" other places]. Tubular means the inner tube is sewed into the tire and you would have to glue the tire to the rim. "Open tubular" means the tire is open and is not sewed into the tire and that is the same as a clincher tire. Clinchers come in 2 types of beads (the bead is what holds onto the rim) that is either wire or foldable. Folding tires are clincher tires and are not tubular tires.

Folding tires = clincher tires
Open tubular = clincher tire
Tubular = tube sewed into tire requiring glue