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If you're commuting best to get anything with an slick central channel, anything knobbly or file thread will eventually wear out. I liked Hutchinson overrides, something like that.
Another thing that will eat your tires is excessive pressure, can't see the logic of running 40c tires so overinflated that only a small bit of the rubber is making contact with the road. -
Soon to be in the gravel thread
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Quite like the handlebars on this
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Rear hub flanges are spaced evenly? Is it fixed?
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I've used prolink pro gold chain lube with a siringe for that, it's very thin and clears a lot of rust and gunk.
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If you gonna ride singlespeed at least use proper hoods, those are ok for an emergency brake in a fixie skidder, not so much as the only means of stopping
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If you suspect is anything worse than tire rub I'll bin them. Not worth taking any chances with forks or handlebars
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I used several, so far same experience than @cycleclinic. Had to say, all this is with high pressure road tires, big volume gravel tires at about 30-40 psi seal a lot better. Only one I find reliable for road duties is Stan's Race, but it's expensive, dries quicker and leaves a lot of gunk inside the tire.
My advice is for something road that gets ridden a lot in any weather use race, for a gravel bike use whatever and for summer bike don't bother and get latex tubes.
I've done several wheels with the fork + ziptie method, but it definitely adds to the complexity. Buy a stand if you plan to use it more than once, it will save you a lot of hours faffing.