guys, it's like we are talking about differents tires here... on my set, I had the following problems:

- many tread chunks where simply gone by 10K,
on all four tires, so that's not about a single
defective tire fault. The tires were looking
like a mouth with missed teeth.

- there were multiple deep cracks in the tread
rubber, so deep below the tread surfice that
I was afraid that the tires are going to
start loosing air.

- one tire was replaced becouse the sidewall
was damaged by a light hit to a curb.

- one tire was replaced due to the sidewall
damaged by a bush - a wooden stick went
through the sidewall ! That was a very unusual
sort of damage. The sidewalls are so fragile.

- there were several flat tires occasions,
I just got sick of fixing them.

- surprisingly, the tread was still deep.
So, I had to replace them not becouse of
the tread wear, but becouse of all the damages
I had on them, and it was too expensive to keep
them and to fix them continiously.

Those tires were a joke. Due to the damage replacements, I had totally 6 of them, all exibited the same behavior. When you guys are talking about 75K or 82K on them, I just think that this is about different tires, not the same 684s I had...

Sorry for the long message, I really do not think
that these tires are worth this discussion.