Buy Kenda Koncept Road Tire 700 x 23C Wire Black/Orange

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The tires came with my training bike. I mostly had vittoria and continental tires in the past 15 years but I left those on just to see, and I was very pleasantly surprised. No more flats than usual (about 1 every 1000 miles, which I think is an average amount) and excellent traction. I used them up after about 4000 miles filled with 110psi (and even used them for 2 races!!). These are certainly not as good as $70 tires but if you don't want to spend much, for less then $20 they are great.

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I ride on fairly clean roads and in less than 300 miles I had 2 Kenda Koncept tires cut completely through the tread and become useless. I have never had any other tires fail this quickly. Stay away from these.

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I bought an expensive bicycle on the Internet. It had very high quality powertrain components and a carbon frame. The bicycle was purchased on eBay from Bottechia USA. Unfortunately, in order to keep the cost of this assembled bicycle down the vendor used very low quality wheels and tires.

These Kenda Koncepts are heavy and BOTH have failed with less than 500 miles. In both cases the sidewall separated I'm very glad that I inspect my tires regularly as I don't like to think about the possibility of a blowout on a 40 mi./h descent. I'm a firm believer in "you get what you pay for". At $13 a pop shouldn't expect much however I had every right to expect a better quality tire on a bicycle costing $1800. Shame on you Kenda and Bottechia USA. Additionally, my local bike shop mechanic told me that it is impossible to true the Vuelta X RP Pro wheels. Stay away from them also. A wheel starts out as a strip of metal that is formed into a circle and joined. If there is a pronounced overlap at the join point you will have a "bump" and it can't be fixed.

There is a lesson here about buying a bicycle on the Internet consisting of very high quality powertrain components at a price that seems too good to be true. The components were primarily duraAce and work very well. In the background there are dirt cheap components in order to meet a price point. These Vuelta wheels and Kenda tires are gone now replaced with a very nice set of dura ace wheels and tubeless tires. It would have been nice not to have to spend over $500 in a wheel and tire upgrade.

Finally, my riding is all on the road and the roads that I ride are 95% good quality with a little shake and bake thrown in but nothing that should have caused both tires to fail in such a short period of time. (Dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11 if anything in the previous review doesn't make sense, chalk it up to lack of proofreading)