Does This Tire Look Like It Only Has 175 Miles On It?

[arcom]

Kenda 4x20" fatty, possible a Kendacrusade. Not sure of the pressure, it's not my bike.

 

[Gordon71]

Looks a bit like the 26X4 Kenda on the back of my Rad Rover although that one has about 3400 miles on it.

 

[sc00ter]

What tire pressure you running? What surface are you primarily riding on? Note that smaller tires tend to wear quicker as well. My OEM Kenda on my RadRunner had 2400 miles on it when I blew the side wall out on something very sharp, cutting the sidewall, and the tread still looked great.

 

[Mike TowpathTraveler]

As per what @sc00ter wrote, what's the tire pressure? What's the tire pressure rating on the sidewall of the tire?

Yes, at the max tire pressure rating (or above), riding on asphalt, your tread blocks will wear down quickly. 175 miles quickly? I don't know about that. I question how soft the rubber is on that tire. See the dark shadows on the tire rubber, surrounding the tread blocks? That's the tire making contact with the road surface, running at a high tire pressure. I've seen it before on my own Schwalbe Jumbo Jims, running on asphalt.

This is my rear Schwalbe Jumbo Jim after about 5000 miles running mainly on asphalt @25 psi tire pressure. Time to change this tire out.

And this is what the replacement, new rear tire tread looks like. I run the pressures at 25 psi so I can get maximum battery mileage per full charge. The side wall tire maximum pressure rating is 30 psi for the Schwalbe JJ......

 

[Gordon71]

The max for my Kendas is also 30psi and I run them at 20PSI as that is what the manual recommended. Seems to work good.