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Originally Posted by Noah
I think what people are trying to say here, * * *I still can't fathom why anyone would pay $300 a pop for street tires. It's a total waste of money.
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I'll have to disagree. I think the above is more or less correct as long as you are looking at a single performance measure - say stick on dry pavement or some such.
But when you try to balance or optimize multi-variately, then some tires really are much better. A case in point is the ES-100s vs. the B'stone S03's. I've tried both new -- within a month of each other on the same roads. The ES-100s performed poorly at 50 oF compared to the S0-3's.
Also, the S-03's will deliver their high performance for a long time as the tread wears down and the rubber ages. B'stone has protected the hell out of that technology just as Apple did with the iphone, so it will be a while before other companies can achieve that.
So, for rain, aging, AND high performance you do achieve better results with certain tires.
The same may go for noise AND perf.
For performance alone, I would not worry.