Do black tires really wear longer?
A friend of HBC memeber Jesus Hernandez sends the following information:
Interesting information about colored tires http://yarchive.net/bike/tire_color.html. Apparently colored tires lack a polymer called Carbon Black which improves wear resistance and increases wet traction.
To substantiate this claim, Continental bicycle tires on their website state that their colored tires are made from different material than their black tires. Their black tires also have the Black Chili Compound which they claim wears better and decreases rolling resistance. I have a pair of blue conti GP 4000 tires on my blue Trek and they wore considerably faster than the black GP 4000 tires on my Madone. Hence, only black tires for me from here on.
Regards,
Ernest
So perhaps this is the year to add “Black Tires” to your holiday wish list?
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