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It's not just a question of how worn the tread looks. You are entrusting your life to that small patch of rubber especially when blasting down a hill at 40 mph so you should be inspecting tyres carefully every month or more often for cuts that have damaged the carcass (look for a bulge), sidewall abrasions, carcass damage from hitting potholes and any other kind of fault. I throw away any tyre that's less than perfect even if it has tread left. There is very little difference between spending £25 this month or spending it in three months but there's a huge difference between being alive and well and being disabled by a brain or spine injury.
I check mine about once a week, I'm using Schwalbe Durano's and usually get 5-6000 miles from them unless they get damaged. I usually put the new tyre on the front and the old front tyre on the back, the back tyre wears quicker than the front so when I need a new back there's still life in the front.
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