So much for my new tyres....

DavidBelcher

Well, only a few weeks and a few hundred miles down the line, one of my Vittoria Rubino Pros has already bitten the dust - had a rear blow-out yesterday evening close to home (so close that I easily made it back on a flat tyre), and it looks as though the tyre is at fault rather than having ridden over something suspect, as there's a neat triangular hole in the sidewall and the tread is split. Will give Pro Bike Kit a ring later today to find out if a refund/exchange is possible. In the meantime, back to good old Vredestein Tri-Comps; dug out a pair of not-very-worn ones from the shed, the only very slight drawback being that they're red and don't really match the bike (a mostly bright yellow Look with blue & green trim)! A minor gripe, really, I guess.

David

giant_man

Dunno why you bother David, Pro Race for me everytime. I don't get through tyres very quickly.

robbie the roadie

giant mancp wrote:

Dunno why you bother David, Pro Race for me everytime. I don't get through tyres very quickly.

I've had a pro race tyre that I had to bin with probably about 200 miles on the clock after getting a hole in the sidewall. In my experience any of the full on race tyres don't seem that durable and often have to be binned far before they are worn out as they seem to get cut so easily by bits of stone on the country roads were I live.

On my summer bike I'm currenely running spesh mondo tyres which are billed as a racing tyre. In reality they don't ride quite so nicely as the pro race but it's not far off and deffinatley an awful lot tougher tyre.

on my fixie I've been running a pair of spesh armadillo all condition tyres. They gave me a whole winter of trouble free riding so thats good.

I've also heard good things about continental tyres so will be trying those at some point.

DavidBelcher

giant mancp wrote:

Dunno why you bother David, Pro Race for me everytime. I don't get through tyres very quickly.

Not keen on Michelin road tyres (the 'cross ones don't seem to have this fault) as they always seem to be an absolute pig to fit. I've also had bother with 2 sets of Contis possessing the structural integrity of wet Weetabix (similar casing faults to the Vittorias), so my sum experience of road tyres so far is Vredestein 1, Others 0.

David