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grip is on offer. Most gravel roads aren’t going to
be a problem at all, with the only times the tyres
struggled was with deep loose gravel where the
lack of knobs on the front tyre made life a bit hard.
This was countered by slowing down my pace.
DISTANC-IA
With the Trailrider stepping in to replace the
Distanzia naturally tyre life is going to come into
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the equation. Speaking with Avon’s New Zealand
distributor, Dold Industries (the same guys behind
Ventura luggage) I was told the Trailrider holds up
to the same long-distance values.
So far with roughly 4000km rolling under them, in
theory, I’ve only used nearly a third of the tyres life.
Looking at them, they still look brand new, so I
reckon that as long as I look after them they’ll last
that theoretical 15,000km distance.