WARNING Vitoria Open Corsa Evo CX WARNING

what brakes

i weigh about 85kg and the pressures were 115psi which is stated on the side of the tyre! previous tyres have been 110psi on my other tyres.

These were gunna be purely used for sportives and races not for everyday day training.

If i had hit a pothole like i did with my rubino pros then this post would have been made as i doubt any tyres will survive hitting a big pothole!

My warning on this post is to highlight what has happened and how badly these tyres have faired for 1x 100 ride! not what you would expect....

I clocked 500 or more miles on my rubino pro's and not 1 nick or cut and that was for pretty much all winter training!

racingcondor

I'm another person who destroyed one in the first week of riding it last year. Put them on again this year and I'm very impressed. I honestly think they're the best racing tyre I've used, but if you're not racing then you shouldn't really be riding them (at least, not on our roads). They don't last and they aren't designed for puncture protection (like a specialized armadillo is).

Tyres can't be more than two of fast, tough, comfy. Open Corsa's are probably the best out there for fast and comfy and GP 4000S are probably the best for fast and tough. Both are excellent at what they do.

what brakes, put some GP 4000S on and pump the front up to not more than 95 and the rear not over 105. The pressures on the side of the tyre is the maximum, not the recommended (whatever the box says).

FransJacques

Did you ride the etape du dales on these tyres? Maybe some crazed flat-earther who thinks bikes are the work of bealzebub himself layed out roofing tacks on the road.

Anyway, this shouldn't be the end of yourworld mid-ride, it's why God invented the non-biogdegradable methusalisitc substance we know and love as Go Gel wrappers. I'm sure they could cover the nose of the spaceshuttle in these things and be better off. Last Monday night on my pedal home from work I saw 10,000 of these things in the gutter along the Embankment, obviously jettisoned by bonking marathoners. Best tire boot known to man and woman. Never leave home without them.

If you do complain to the store let us know how it goes. Not to prejudice your results but I can tell you what 10+ years of working in bike store has taught me about JRA stories like this one.

dennisn

Mettan wrote:

Just a quickie - Carlos Sastre (the 2008 Tour de France winner..) - this is his Cervelo bike with some Vittoria Open Corsa Evo CX's on it - Sastre's Cervelo Team trained on Vittoria Open Corsa EVO CX 23 mm clinchers in the 2009 season (and still do in the 2010 season..). Those tyres must have some redeeming qualities.. no? - Anyways -

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/tech/200 ... testeam_s3

Vittoria tyres are currently used by Rabobank, Cervelo Test Team, Garmin, Lampre, Euskatel Euskadi amongst others.

I would also note that the last quote on that link went something like this "Sastre would prefer to run tubulars all the time, as he finds them more comfortable but these open tubular - style clinchers are the next best thing". This really doesn't have much to do with anything but thought I'd throw it in there because I sometimes get the impression that a few people seem to think that clinchers are what's used in the pro ranks. Tubulars still rule the roost in the upper classes of racing.

bigmat

racing tyres or not, that's a pretty bad state from one ride - I'd be equally hacked off as the OP (although lesson would be learnt). Not sure Vittoria deserve particular criticism though, I'm sure most tyres have failed for somebody. I had a high speed sidewall blow out on a practically new Conti GP4000 - I got that replaced bythe manufacturer and it then lasted another 18 months, including rides along farm tracks, before I replaced it (and it will be probably go on my winter bike when I get round to it as there is still life in it). My new Vittoria Diamantes have done maybe 100 miles and look box fresh - seem like great tyres, although I'm a bit worried about riding them downhill in the wat after reading another recent thread. I guess the lesson is that lightweight racing tyres really aren't at all robust. I tried to convince myself that a set of Veloflex couldn't be that flimsy, could they? But in the the end opted for something a bit more robust for sportive / training use - glad I did...

1878

I've been running Vittoria Open Pave for almost a year, since Wiggle recalled my Tyres Of Death (aka Schwalbe Ultremo). My assumption was that a tyre designed for Paris-Roubaix could handle the streets of Bournemouth and of course I had a puncture by Wednesday of the first week. Faultless since then, though.

dennisn

MatHammond wrote:

racing tyres or not, that's a pretty bad state from one ride - I'd be equally hacked off as the OP (although lesson would be learnt).

My whole thing was he was blaming the tires. I simply didn't follow how cuts like that
just appear on tires. I might buy the one in a million chance that BOTH tires were defective and split on their own accord, but that's a long shot. SOMETHING cut those tires and very probably any somewhat thin racing tire would have suffered the same fate
upon hitting whatever it was that did those tires in, whether you had ridden 2 miles or 2000. I will say that it is sort of odd. Both tires. Almost as if each one hit the same thing. What are the odds?? I guess it proves the old adage "What can happen, will".