New Tires - Manufactured Date - What is Fair and Reasonable

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Tires are your connection to the road. Just knowing that you have good ones mounted adds to your mental comfort when riding. If it helps you have more confidence in your tires to have ones with a more recent date of manufacture, then you were most definitely NOT being too critical. I think that you'd have been fine with the others, but in the end, it's not about what anyone else thinks.