Our very own Pete Zlatnik the service manager at the Hollywood Bike Gallery has been testing tires for Bontrager for about a year now. Pete met one of Trek’s product managers last year when he visited our store. Bontrager was looking for some real world testing of their new all-weather tires and having someone in Portland to test them made perfect sense. If by “all weather” what you mean is nonstop rain, then we have had our fair share of all weather this spring! Pete received various tire samples and was told to mount them up, track mileage,  wear them out, and then send them back with feedback for evaluation. The result of testing like this is the new Bontrager RXL All Weather Hardcase. It is a folding clincher tire that has triple flat protection and features advanced tread design with rain shedding siping and patterns. The folding Aramid bead and 120 TPI casing make the tire ride more like a performance tire than a typical flat resistant tire. Pete is about 1200 miles into this version of the tire and hasn’t had a flat yet. He says they work great in this especially wet spring. If your bike serves double purpose as a commuter and a longer distance training bike, this is one tire that will deliver all year long.