m@Robertson
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My experience with Supercells was they wore like iron. I try to buy the 30 tpi version with the extra tough casing. I still have one on the back of my Great Pumpkin, which is running smooth summer tires right now.
The problem I have with them is, for the front wheel, the semi-slick tread gloms onto pointy things like nails and releases them after they have come up off the ground... so putting it straight into my back tire. I had HUGE problems with straight-on nail strikes until I finally was able to figure out what was happening. I solved the problem by changing out the front tire to an Arisun Big Smoothy. Same size, comparable price. Problem solved.
Recently I fitted my Big Fat Dummy with smooth summer tires and could not find Supercells (plenty of them available now but not a few months ago). I used two Big Smoothys and they are working great. FYI Arisun is the North American and EU brand name for Chaoyang ... which is of course familiar cuz they also make the Sandstorm/Supercell.
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The problem I have with them is, for the front wheel, the semi-slick tread gloms onto pointy things like nails and releases them after they have come up off the ground... so putting it straight into my back tire. I had HUGE problems with straight-on nail strikes until I finally was able to figure out what was happening. I solved the problem by changing out the front tire to an Arisun Big Smoothy. Same size, comparable price. Problem solved.
Recently I fitted my Big Fat Dummy with smooth summer tires and could not find Supercells (plenty of them available now but not a few months ago). I used two Big Smoothys and they are working great. FYI Arisun is the North American and EU brand name for Chaoyang ... which is of course familiar cuz they also make the Sandstorm/Supercell.
