Had a couple of world tour riders come through this week on their GS ADV for a maintenance stop, and a couple days with a real bed: Tires, oil, valves, throttle body synch, read codes, brake pads...
They wanted Hiedenau K60 Scouts, but didn't want to hang out for them to arrive mail order. We found some TKC80's (their usual tire) at a local source and went to pick them up. It wasn't very bright in the store, and we were parked in the shade. When we got home and pulled the tires out in the full sun this is what we found for the front tire (right click and choose "view image" in Firefox to see them full size):
We took it back immediately and the shop gave us an exchange no problem. But this is what the parts person said, "Looks like a perfectly good tire to me, but if it makes you happy we'll exchange it. I took the stickers off the tire for you myself before I brought it out to you."
Here, for comparison, is the exchange tire:
Your thoughts?
They wanted Hiedenau K60 Scouts, but didn't want to hang out for them to arrive mail order. We found some TKC80's (their usual tire) at a local source and went to pick them up. It wasn't very bright in the store, and we were parked in the shade. When we got home and pulled the tires out in the full sun this is what we found for the front tire (right click and choose "view image" in Firefox to see them full size):
We took it back immediately and the shop gave us an exchange no problem. But this is what the parts person said, "Looks like a perfectly good tire to me, but if it makes you happy we'll exchange it. I took the stickers off the tire for you myself before I brought it out to you."
Here, for comparison, is the exchange tire:
Your thoughts?