Poll: When do you replace tires?

When the sidewall support is very noticeably reduced, generally 15 runs. There is a big drop off around the 5th run and it slowly gets worse from there. By the 15th run it feels like rocks have no resistance compressing into the rim even at increased pressures. My knobs are generally passable at this time on Maxxgrip but the DH sidewalls just don’t offer support even at 32+ psi.

Holy shit! 

 

front tires last for about 2 years, rear 1 for me.

When I notice the grip has gone away. I'm not very sensitive to that, so I'm like the poster above; I measure my tires in years, not DH runs. 

you selling these anywhere?  Asking for a friend.

In all seriousness- what is that- 2 park days?  Front and rear?

Front when it's lost knobs or It's pushing in corners. Front traction is king.

Rear when it literally fails. Tokyo drift

Shit is expensive man! 

yep, tires really only last a couple days of good hard riding on the big bikes

Usually when I put a large hole through the tread. Seems to happen a lot around here. If a tire survives long enough for the side knobs to become noticeably undercut and there is a decrease in traction performance it goes in the bin. I will often swap out a front tire at that point or along with a torched rear but those usually go in my pile of spares. On my primary bikes I go through 3-4 rears and 2 fronts in a year. I keep a fair amount of tires stocked in the garage but somehow still never have the right rear tire for my preferred setup du jour. I have the means and temperament to consider tires a consumable item and will not sacrifice performance or run something questionable simply to maximize my $$ per ride so this looks like no riding plugged tires outside of an emergency and if a tire is torn off and the bead is questionable, consider it done.   

I will swap new tires on for pre-riding and racing an in-person enduro.  Those stay on and get beat into the ground as daily drivers until the next race or the rear is worn out. On average 1-2 fronts per season, and 3 rears. Usually the local races I am doing are spread out over the season by a good margin of time, so I'm not collecting a ton of partially worn tires. We also have "virtual enduros" locally that are run by the trail society over Strava and I don't care what's on the bike for those. I buy tires in bulk and only on sale, once a year.

I only run gravity casing on the back, can get away with trail/EXO+ equivalent on the front. I would love hard wearing rear compounds on daily driver rear gravity casing tires.

About every 3-4 months on the big bike (maxxgrip downhill casing...) and every 4-5 months on the ''xc'' bike (exo or similar casing). 

Our riding season is mostly from early april to late december