Mavic CXR 60 WTS

oflynnce
oflynnce Posts: 2
edited March 2015 in Road general
Anyone using these? http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/category/components/wheel-sets/product/review-mavic-cosmic-carbone-cxr-60-t-47265/

Mavic specifically warn against using any tyres apart from their own, I'm not a fan of their own brand tyres and wanted to stick a pair of Conti GP4000s on them, but the Mavic warning has me concerned. With the blade attachment they're non UCI legal, I was thinking of using them without the blades but with the Contis instead of the Mavic tyres. Would appreciate thoughts from anyone who's got them and done the same....

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,317
    I would have no hesitation in using a different tyre, as long as the tyre size is appropriate for the rim. Surely Mavic want to avoid litigation from customers having tyre failures. Are you the kind of person who will go into litigation with Mavic if his tyre explodes?

    Do you care about being UCI compliant? I would assume unless you are racing at the top end, nobody will really care. In the UK racing scene you will find a good proportion of the entrants are not UCI compliant. Anyone with Planet X carbon wheels, Superstar carbon wheels, Chinese carbon wheels or in fact any hand built wheel deeper than 25 mm is an outlaw... :mrgreen:
    left the forum March 2023
  • cgates66
    cgates66 Posts: 1
    I've been running these since last fall. I've used the Mavic tires and the GP4000sIIs (23mm only), with and without the blades. Based on timing over a similar route (and given weather changes this is pretty unreliable, so...) I didn't see a big difference between the two. I'm a GP4000 fan, and run them on other wheel - they are fast, no doubt, but the clincher Mavic tires seem to be pretty similar - they are somewhat narrower, so somewhat more RR, but it didn't show up, either in feel or in time, in my real-world riding.

    With the blades, I would strongly recommend that you only use the Mavic tires. They have a wear resistant strip on them that prevents the friction between the tire and blade wearing through the sidewall of the tire. I ran the GP4000s with the blades, and after about 100 - 150 miles it was evident that the blades were abrading the sidewall of the tire significantly, so I switched back.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Mike Cotty to the thread please.

    (Although he might be cycling up a hill at the moment)

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