good morning YouTube I'm getting ready to go on a bike ride later today so we're doing a little
work on the bike and I wanted to show you here this my Garmin GPS edge 800 model and if you can
see right there on the top that's the odometer on this bike setting so we're coming up on 50
350 miles here probably hit that today and if you notice the tire down there that tire has got all
those miles on it and I've got three other tires that have different number of miles and I thought
this would be a good time to compare the tread wear between the different tires with different
miles on them and see what they're looking like so let me set up so we can let take a look at
all those okay so the tires I've been running on this bike this is my monster cross or cyclocross
bike I built it in 2012 I think at first saw pavement in June's and these are the tires I'm
using these are the Schwab Marathon Mondial 700 by 40 C size these are the folding bead tires
which I think they call their evolution brand and they have the double defense compound they make
two models of these what these were the folding B they also make the wire bead tires that are
probably 2/3 the cost these are the more expensive ones I've been running them just short of 50 350
miles now and the first 2500 miles I rode with tubes and then at 2500 miles I converted over to
tubeless so this is a brand new tire I picked this up about a year year and a half ago and I measured
the tread depth at point one zero five inches so that's the tread depth on a new tire yeah see if
we can get all these tires in shot so again this is a new tire here with about a hundred and five
thousandths inch tread depth now this tire over here is the second newest I bought these two tires
at the same time put this one on the bike and it's had about 1,850 miles it's got about a point zero
eight five inch tread depth so I've worn off about a 20,000th of an inch in those miles and this has
been on the rear the whole time running to bless so I changed this out at about 3,500 miles total
and the reason was this tire here at 3500 miles I picked up a nail that went in the tread and then
came out the sidewall this tired spent about 2,500 miles on front with an inner tube and
then about a thousand miles on the rear tubeless 3500 total and it has about a point zero seven
five inch tread depth and I've been measuring the tread depth right right in between the main lugs
here since that's where it'll wear the most and then this was the tire that was on the front of
the bike has the full fifty three hundred miles about a point zero six three inch tread depth
and this one spent twenty five hundred miles on the rear with an inner tube and then about
twenty-eight fifty on front tubeless and you can see it's definitely getting some cracks in
there so anyway I just thought I'd show you the tread where I'm getting I'm expecting I should
be able to get maybe another four thousand miles on these tires maybe get up around nine thousand
before this tread starts getting a little worn it seems like on the front they don't wear anywhere
near as much so there's my four marathon Mondial I really like the tires they last a really long
time they are a bit on the expensive side you're looking at about seventy to eighty dollars a tire
the wire bead are maybe $50 a tire forty to fifty dollars I really like the folding bead and these
have what they call the snakeskin sidewalls which are really tough and I've just graped up against
rocks on the trail and thought for sure I'd cut a sidewall and I've yet to have any punctures
except for this one tire that took a nail that went in here and came out right by the bead and
I'll show you that tire up close on another video it yeah I just thought I'd show you the tread wear
so starting out new 0.10 5 inches here's 1,800 miles point zero eight five here's 3500 miles
you've got about point zero seven five and here's 5,300 miles and point zero six three yeah I think
I should be able to get about 9,000 miles maybe ten if I push it out of a set of tires because
the Front's really don't seem to wear as much as the rear especially riding up the gravel and dirt
climbs where you're spinning a little bit yeah if you have any questions about those tires post up
in the comment section below and I'll try to do some more videos on my monster cross bike here
just got to get the chain lubed up today and I got to put a little more tire sealant in the
rear tire it's starting to leak down a little bit quick so I got to do that today pump up the
tires loop the chain and I think I'm ready to hit the trails I think I'll call that good for now if
you have any questions put that in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching