http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Geeky Marathon Plus question en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:06:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2624#post-27910 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:35:43 +0000 gembo 27910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kevlar stops bullets but it does not stop hawthorns. I have had one puncture in 7 years of Marathon Plus and it was a hawthorn spike out by linlithgow on towpath. I am informed carbon bikes also susceptible to hawthorn. The tread is however 5mm thicker at the widest point of the circumference, I conclude the tyre will therefore last longer before it wears down to the thinness of contis </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2624#post-27903 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:41:41 +0000 alibali 27903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank you both. </p> <p>DRIVE = ROTATION seems to be the clear result.</p> <p>Lets see how they do on the WoLW thorns that seem to defeat Continetal tyres with ease... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2624#post-27900 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:40:24 +0000 gembo 27900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Direction of rotation I'd say</p> <p>I once put one on and then noticed I'd put it on the wrong way round and left it like that for a couple of years. I did finally correct it.</p> <p>The big difference for me is that they were 5 minutes slower over my 10 mile commute (up the hill). Still you fairly birl along when you switch to a summer tyre / slick </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2624#post-27898 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:58:28 +0000 kaputnik 27898@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've always taken it to be the angle of rotation as it's generally about throwing water out in the correct direction rather than anything to do with torque. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2624#post-27897 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:44:57 +0000 alibali 27897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm now the proud owner of a pair of Marathon Plus tyres, thanks to a gift voucher and the many recommendations here.</p> <p>They are to replace the voluminous but puncture prone and silghtly odd Innova items that came with the bike ( [url=http://www.innovatires.com/tire_serch.php?xPA=IA-2022] ).</p> <p>The MPs are marked with direction arrows with the slightly ambiguous (IMO) "DRIVE" qualifier. So, my geeky question for all you Plus fans is: does that mean direction of rotation (same front and rear) or the direction in which torque is applied (opposite front and rear)? Or maybe (and I suspect this may be the case) it doesn't really matter.... </p>