TIRES on Pace350

[JudyS]

I am within inches of deciding on a Pace 350 .... thanks to all the help from comments on this and other forums! ....

Question: Dealer recommends I bite the bullet and immediately swap out the tires for two high-end Puncture proof tires. "The good ones", he says, "don't scrimp . The stock tires are just fine and will do you well for good distance, but you can avoid flats with the puncture proof." An additional $85 per tire .

Is this good advice ... good advice for any bike or good advice because of cheaper components on the Pace 350? .... or, is it simple up-selling? In your opinions, of course ...

Thanks in advance.

 

[J.R.]

It's good advice to install puncture resistant tires. There's no such thing as a pneumatic puncture proof bike tire.

$85 installed per tire for something like Schwalbe Marathon Plus ebike rated tire isn't terrible. Tires aren't difficult to install though. If you're doing this before the bike is ever ridden, will they give you something for the stock tires? A shop could easily sell them to someone with a hybrid bike looking for something cheap. If not, you could easily sell them on Craigslist. Tires are in short supply right now. I recently sold some used spares and people were grateful to get them.

 

[JudyS]

It's good advice to install puncture resistant tires. There's no such thing as a pneumatic puncture proof bike tire.

$85 installed per tire for something like Schwalbe Marathon Plus ebike rated tire isn't terrible. Tires aren't difficult to install though. If you're doing this before the bike is ever ridden, will they give you something for the stock tires? A shop could easily sell them to someone with a hybrid bike looking for something cheap. If not, you could easily sell them on Craigslist. Tires are in short supply right now. I recently sold some used spares and people were grateful to get them.

Much thanks for your comment -- good point about reselling-- and also for helping with my vocabulary choice. Too many new ideas rattling around in my brain, middrive, hubdrive, torque, cadence, HELP!??! I got lazy while typing the question.

 

[BigNerd]

Why not Slime the stock tires for $7 each?

 

[Alex M]

It's good advice to install puncture resistant tires. There's no such thing as a pneumatic puncture proof bike tire.
$85 installed per tire for something like Schwalbe Marathon Plus ebike rated tire isn't terrible.

Yep. No such thing as puncture-proof. Adding Tannus Armor inside is as close as it gets to puncture-proof. I heard reports about people able to limp back home on the Tannus alone, without air. With a light rider I could believe this.

Unless they give a fair refund for those OEM Kenda tires, the OP could do better than $85. Probably $20-30 better - per tire, if he installs it himself.

Schwalbe Marathon Plus is nice but it's a bit skinny 1.75" vs 2.2" Kenda that he has, and Pace comes with no front suspension. Perhaps 2.15" Schwalbe Big Ben Plus. With either Tannus or Slime inside, for more protection.

 

[TxAventon]

I have over 1200 miles on my Pace 500 and my wife has 400+ miles on her Pace 350 with the OEM tires. We have not had one issue with them on either bike.

 

[JudyS]

thank you toe EVERYONE.
i bought the Pace. will reserve new tires for possibly next Spring (when we can again travel south of our border to goat head country!); the dealer and I both agreed that the current, stock, tires of the Pace 350 will be absolutely fine.

 

[Bigal1463]

Bike mechanics recommend that you not use slime or any
similar product. They say that when they go to repair it, the slime gets all over the wheel and it’s difficult to remove.