Time for main tires

What do you folks normally look for when it's time for new tires for the mains? Brands, brand new, retreads?

Do you reuse tubes or always new tubes?

I've changed a ton of tires and tubes on mountain bikes, as well as cars when in school, but failure is nowhere near as severe or inconvenient as on a plane, splitting the rims to change and fix them.

I run Desser 500-5 6 PLY AWBS RETREAD ELITE PREMIUM 2 GROOVE (ELITE) on mains for RV-12. These tires have a thick tread on the outside edges to counter the excessive wear from large camber angle on the un-sprung gear. Tires are ~$80. Desser ran a Thanksgiving sale three years ago and included a LeakStop tube free with each tire purchased. Been looking for that sale ever since...

These tires are a little bigger than original tires so check for 1/2" clearance to wheel fairing.

New


300 Hours


New again 3/20

NinerBikes said:

What do you folks normally look for when it's time for new tires for the mains? Brands, brand new, retreads?

Do you reuse tubes or always new tubes?

I've changed a ton of tires and tubes on mountain bikes, as well as cars when in school, but failure is nowhere near as severe or inconvenient as on a plane, splitting the rims to change and fix them.

Click to expand...

There must be at least four million threads in the archives on this subject.

Here is a recent one (found with the Search engine):

http://vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=179517&highlight=tubes

You will be as likely to find a consensus on this subject as whether to prime, tip-up/slider, Ford/Chevy/Honda, etc....etc.....

Sam Buchanan said:

There must be at least four million threads in the archives on this subject.

Here is a recent one (found with the Search engine):

http://vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=179517&highlight=tubes

You will be as likely to find a consensus on this subject as whether to prime, tip-up/slider, Ford/Chevy/Honda, etc....etc.....

Click to expand...

Guess I missed that as I pretty much only frequent the RV-12 section. Not even sure what size tires all the heavier RV series planes use. Thanks for the link.