Pswartz wrote on 04/23/19 at 20:21:18:Well... guess it is back to the drawing board... I've only been looking at/for tubeless tires.
Tubeless tires work with tubes.....and it may be impossible to find tubeless tires these days. They make tire tubeless so they can be used on both tube and tubeless rims.
If you only ride 1,000 miles a year - buy less expensive tires as they will get old and hard long before you wear out an expensive tire. If you ride 10,000 miles a year......then you will get your money out of a more expensive tire. Generally you can wear out 2 back tires for each front tire....so if you don't ride many miles the front tire is likely to be old before you wear the tread off it. Most folks don't like riding on tires that have been on the bike for more than 5 years....the rubber gets hard and doesn't stick to the pavement as well.
Here is a link to the new Tire Thread:
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1448021014