New Tires

[Lee]

Do you keep them?

I do because I do both trips and I commute and ride whenever I can while not on a long trip. That was why I bought the tire changer; the theory was so I could put my half-worn tires back on. Still have to master the changer of course, but I do have 3 rear tires in my garage, one with maybe less than 1000 miles on it which I patched (properly from the inside) and which will see use one of these days.


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Sometimes I keep one set. I only remember one time that I remounted the old tires.
After a few years of not using the old tires I set them out on the curb and someone usually picks them up.
Two years ago I had tires shipped to a place we stay in the Texas Hill Country.
The guy has a tire changer. One of the guys in our group needed to buy a rear tire for his trip home to Kansas. I told him to run over to Blanco and have our friend mount my old tire. It had plenty of thread for his ride home. This saved him paying list price for a tire at one of the three shops available.
He had a new set waiting at home and he miss calculated how long his tires would last.

He took my tire which is on the right.