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Originally Posted by DampRobot
In my team's experience, blue nitrile tread isn't much better than orange in terms of wear. It still wears relatively quickly, and just gets murdered by trying to use it on cement (for demos and such). Also, because of the toughness of the backing material, it is very hard to cut to size, even with sharp razors. It might have slightly more traction than other types of tread, but I'm not sure we'll be using it again next season.
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In our experience the blue roughtop wears like a champ (under FRC applications, not cement). It easily last a season of competition before being completely worn. We generally replace it after 2 events just to make sure we're running the freshest of tread.
It cuts really nicely on a bandsaw, razor blades are not the right tool for the job. Table saws also do an excellent job.