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Chiming in, rear factory tire blew out from a paper clip even though the original bike owner put in slime. Made a real mess, slime never again. Bought the "WTB Horizon 650 x 47c Road TCS Tire" off Amazon and had both front and back replaced. Not tubless, but I have a Mt. Tuffy tire liners for extra protection which has served me well on my road bike.I swapped tyres almost immediately on buying the bike to WTB Horizons and have gone through 2-3 sets it the 12k miles. All very impressive considering a 50lb bike at 30mph on LA's crappy roads - It takes some big hits and the original wheels did tremendously well.
Was intending to do my usual 25 mile route but ended up doing 40 miles instead. Noticably faster than the factory tires. Especially when crusing without pedalling, did not feel the immediate loss in speed that is apparent on the knobby tires. This inaugural ride on these WBS tires, broke 2 eKOMs in Sport+ but my battery started running out so I had to go down to normal and crawled home in eco, but still made a bunch more PRs.
The WBS tires look significantly thinner than the factory tires, with much more clearance particularly noticable around the fenders.
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