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Geeky Marathon Plus question

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  1. alibali
    Member

    I'm now the proud owner of a pair of Marathon Plus tyres, thanks to a gift voucher and the many recommendations here.

    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] ).

    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....

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    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.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    Direction of rotation I'd say

    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.

    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

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. alibali
    Member

    Thank you both.

    DRIVE = ROTATION seems to be the clear result.

    Lets see how they do on the WoLW thorns that seem to defeat Continetal tyres with ease...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    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

    Posted 13 years ago #

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