I know I have read many blogs regarding the dwindling quality of goodyear marathons but let me tell you about my incident with maxxis! The tires were fairly new (about 5K miles on them). Coming home from the lake and the read separates from the tire! Looked like the steel belt broke and about a 2 foot section of the middle part of the tread came completely off, sidewalls fine and air still in the tire but a section of tread gone and the steel belt curled up.
Now for the good part, I can't get anyone at maxxis to respond. Finally I received a response email that told me to keep calling the number maybe someone would answer! Couldn't believe it!