{"id":436,"date":"2012-07-16T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-07-16T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:40:23","slug":"tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_437\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/worn-tire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-437\" title=\"worn-tire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/worn-tire.jpg\" alt=\"worn tire\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/worn-tire.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/worn-tire-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">worn tire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 3000 miles seems like a reasonable life for this set of tires. The red is the Kevlar belt under the tread. I\u00a0rotated the tires at about 1500 miles while camping in Circle, Montana. The rear tire was just starting to show a red spot when I arrived at home. Many of the cycling tourists I meet are using Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires. I have heard some people get very high mileage from those tires, which would offset the initial cost of the tires. The old\u00a0tires were 700c x 32. I replaced them with a set of Continental Contacts which are 700c x 28 ( found\u00a0on C-list). They are noticeably narrower than the 32s. The weight is about the same. I am hoping for a lower rolling assistance. With 1460 miles remaining in the tour, I expect this set with last me to Bar Harbor, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3000 miles seems like a reasonable life for this set of tires. The red is the Kevlar belt under the tread. I\u00a0rotated the tires at about 1500 miles while camping in Circle, Montana. The rear tire was just starting to show a red spot when I arrived at home. Many of the cycling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}