You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
The 'Snakeskin EVO' Hans Dampf I ordered off Evans turned out to be Addix soft and they seem very soft indeed. Are they going to be worn out in a few rides? They're 26 too which makes it worse.
Schwalbe claim the durability of the soft compound is 50% better than the old trailstar compound so i doubt you will wear it out any time soon.
I had a set of MM in addix soft and they still looked brsnd new after a few uplift days and a month of riding my local trails
I dunno how durable trailstar was though...
I’ve got an old Trailstar Snakeskin Dampf on a 26er wheel that was used extensively but hasn’t been ridden in 4 years. After about a year of weekly trail riding in Guisborough and the Peaks it looked as worn as you’d expect a softish grippy tyre to look and the edge knobs were starting to give up/tear off. This is pretty normal for Schwalbes, Strava superstars and Enduro pros will tend to destroy them quicker, as you might expect. Particularly, hard/fast/deep leaning in corners will tend to result in edge knobs tearing long before the main tread is worn. Apparently the Addix are a little better in this regard but it still happens.