Vittoria Zaffiro Slick Wired Tyre

uphillslowly

After a bit of advice on these tyres.
Mrs Slowly came home from work today with these tyres for me, someone she works with gave them to her to give to me. (I must have been a good boy recently).
They are 700x25mm, and I was wondering if they are any good for this time of year as they are slicks?
Thanks in advance
UHS

Gizmodo

Uphillslowly wrote:

After a bit of advice on these tyres.
Mrs Slowly came home from work today with these tyres for me, someone she works with gave them to her to give to me. (I must have been a good boy recently).
They are 700x25mm, and I was wondering if they are any good for this time of year as they are slicks?

Search the other threads on winter tires, tread makes no difference on a road bike tire. The idea of a tread pattern on a car tire is to stop aqua-planing on top of water because the tire is so wide. On a mountain bike it is to grip rocks and throw off mid.

On a road bike the tire is too narrow to aqua-plane and shouldn't need to grip rocks or throw mud. So slick tires are the normal for all conditions - except snow and ice. If you are going to ride narrow tires on snow and ice the you need studded tires - a tread pattern on 25mm tires will do nothing.

Now that said, back to the vittoria zaffiro. They are cheap as chips at about £7 per tire. Reviews are mixed but most say you get what you pay for. So for what you've paid (nowt) you've got yourself a bargin, but not that much of one.

fast as fupp

theyre called tyres round here, lad.

thats T-Y-R-E-S

declan1

fast as fupp wrote:

theyre called tyres round here, lad.

thats T-Y-R-E-S

* They're, *That's - if you're going to be fussy!

Gizmodo

fast as fupp wrote:

theyre called tyres round here, lad.

thats T-Y-R-E-S

You're assuming I'm from the UK, I could be a Yank living in England

smidsy

Gizmodo wrote:

fast as fupp wrote:

theyre called tyres round here, lad.

thats T-Y-R-E-S

You're assuming I'm from the UK, I could be a Yank living in England

Nah, you can write and everything :P :shock:

uphillslowly

Does anybody else have any experience with these tyres?

fast as fupp

yes, they're an ok, cheap training tyre-fine for the winter.

Kerguelen

I gave up on mine after 6 punctures in 5 days. Changed to Continental Gatorskins a couple of days ago which seem to be holding up OK.