They don’t have the most aggressive edge compared to, say, a maxxis DHF, and I do find that this is where they tend to wear first. The inside edge starts to erode which undermines the block and they get quite unpredictable and squirelly in the turns.
It takes about a year for this to happen for me. For a TS front and a PS on the back.
Of course, I can live with a slightly lively back end, and to a degree a slightly ‘live’ front end in the dry, but right now I’m waiting on a magic Mary for steering duties, since the afore mentioned sticky mud on Mendip is to much for the Dampf now the weather has turned.
I like big tyres. One of the reasons I moved on my mark 1 Solaris was so that I could get a bigger tyre in the rear. On its replacement, -a 2Souls Quarterhorse, I’ve no tyre issues with the Dampf on a 30mm internal width rim. Still snakebiting the damn thing though.