Half a mile. I’m done with respectable brand-named tires. They are not particularly safe; they blowout totally just the same. I have to worry about insuring them and how to match if one of them is damaged. And I’m not a fan of tire rotation. I’m not even on time for scheduled maintenance. For cheaper tires, I can just get a pair or all four if something happens. Also, both of my rides can run to safety with only three wheels; they are real stories, bro. The probability of two tires failing all of a sudden is very small, even for cheap ones.
The problem is, the tire salesman openly said that they don’t get any money selling tires. So they pump nitrogen into my cheap tires and convince me to do a wheel alignment, which I once confused with balancing. I ended up with a ridiculous bill when the tire element is a fraction of the total.
Sorry for the tire ranting. So I went for the Walmart tire center at $10 a piece of installation. They didn’t try to upsell me anything and even called me urgently to see if I was really throwing away the tire with good condition along with the flat one in order to get an identical pair.