Foam tyres – Lifespan? Performance?

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- October 16, 2005 at 3:14 am #9604
  Kerosene
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  What sort of lifespan do foam tyres have? (If kept inside and away from concrete).
  
  I’ve just moved into a house with floorboards and was thinking I should try them out.
- October 16, 2005 at 5:18 am #18467
  ph2t
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  On floorbards, try forever. Seriously.
- October 16, 2005 at 6:00 am #18468
  Kerosene
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  That’s exactly what I want to hear. Good stuff.
- October 17, 2005 at 2:06 pm #18473
  Aaron
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  Even on concrete they’ll last quite some time. Certainly they’re good for many hours of running on any surface. I’ve still not completely worn down my original set of narrow softs and I’ve had those for close to two years!
  
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- October 17, 2005 at 5:54 pm #18464
  dgs73
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  mine get a majority of their run time on netball courts… my original set (purchased easily over a year ago) still have a lot of wear left in them.
- October 17, 2005 at 8:29 pm #18465
  betty.k
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  it’s worth mentioning there are many variables.
  
  the brand: gandini powerfoams are by far the best. period!i’ve seen jamie tear a set of other brand foams in minutes. once, ph2t wore through a set of squat foams before the batts ran down! i’m not even gonna bother with the crap foams that came with my iwaver!
  
  surface: personally i’ve been running my gandini’s on rough concrete, foams rear and rubber front. my foams last just as long as rubber tyres did. i estimate between 1 – 1 1/2 hours of solid hard racing. like ph2t said, on your surface they should go a long way.
- October 19, 2005 at 11:13 am #18454
  Viper_14
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  yeah on my mission carbon i have foams and i have been running them continueslyfor 2 months on tarmac! and they are still perfect
- October 20, 2005 at 3:55 am #18445
  Kerosene
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  Excellent. Sounds like they will last a lifetime indoors.
  
  I’ll be ordering some in the next few days (from ausmicro of course).. as soon as I work out what offset/width to get.
- October 23, 2005 at 5:27 pm #18437
  z-beam
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  they particularly shine on surfaces that are undrivable with rubber. most of the prime space in my house is smooth tiles and my z’s got a lot more use once i had foams fitted. i was using hard ones as well…
- October 24, 2005 at 5:12 pm #18431
  Aaron
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  Well order up folks becuase we’ve just had another 27 boxes of tyres come in!
  
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