I've had Avocet Cross IIs and Continental Town & Countrys. Both were great do-80%-of-everything-well tires. The Avocets did wear into a flat-topped profile like a Marine's head, which I wasn't super jazzed about. The Contis wore down pretty evenly... and very, very slowly. For a bombproof, crappy-road-commuting-and-moderate-off-roading tire in 26"/559, they'd be my go-to tire even today. That Serfas looks like the design brief was "make a copy of the T&C that's just different enough so that we won't get sued."
--Shannon