Tyre Experts

[peerjay56]

I will probably go for the Marathon Plus's early next year before the farmers start trimming the bushes. The roads do seem ok for the moment. Thanks for the replies and info.

They muz be lazy beggars down thurr. 'Edges iz all trimmed n topped up 'ere.

 

[flecc]

They muz be lazy beggars down thurr. 'Edges iz all trimmed n topped up 'ere.

Climate difference, down here the hedges have only just stopped growing!

 

[John F]

They muz be lazy beggars down thurr. 'Edges iz all trimmed n topped up 'ere.

Thought they were all stone hedges over there?

 

[KirstinS]

Nope, mine were travel contacts.

The exception that proves the rule

 

[peerjay56]

Thought they were all stone hedges over there?

We have a bizarre mix - you get 30-40 foot of stone wall and then the rest is hedge, then maybe 10 foot of stone wall, then more hedge.
The stone hedges don't need trimming

 

[jackhandy]

The stone hedges don't need trimming

Ours do!

Cornish stone hedges - 8ft high, with dirty great boulders sticking out, covered by rank vegetation so as to be invisible.

Many a visitor to the area has moored his car catastrophically on one.

 

[Cyclezee]

Have to say that I lost confidence in Continental tyres a few years back.
I was riding a brand new bike fitted with a pair of Touring Plus tyres, their equivalent of the Schwalbe Marathon Plus.
After riding for less than a mile I got a puncture in the rear tyre when a thorn went straight through the the tread, I am fairly certain that an SM+ would have survived this.