Tesco Evans and Mavic have made my day.

lesfirth

First,you can still get 3x your Tesco vouchers with Evans. I have just opened the box of my Mavic Cosmic Elite disc wheels that I thought were a good buy at £295.( actually vouchers and some cash) The Evans description does mention tyres but I was not expecting to see what I had in the box. They come with Yksion tyres fitted!!!!! even 25mm that I was going to buy.

trivial_poursuivant

Nice. Good to some praise for shops when they get it right instead of the negative side. Hope you have many enjoyable miles on them

Wayne Plunger

Evans advertise them as wts so struggling to see why you are surprised.

Tyresome

lesfirth wrote:

First,you can still get 3x your Tesco vouchers with Evans. I have just opened the box of my Mavic Cosmic Elite disc wheels that I thought were a good buy at £295.( actually vouchers and some cash) The Evans description does mention tyres but I was not expecting to see what I had in the box. They come with Yksion tyres fitted!!!!! even 25mm that I was going to buy.

Those tyres tend to come with Mavic WTS road wheelsets. They are not particularly good tyres, in my experience.

lesfirth

Wayne Plunger wrote:

Evans advertise them as wts so struggling to see why you are surprised.

I wish I was as clever as you.

markyone

Good old tesco and evans cycles,i run and own a fleet of trucks and fuel up in esso and get clubcard points lots of
I save them up for a month or 2 then spend spend spend x3

mason5697

First thing I would do is change those tyres

ayjaycee

As mentioned above, Yksions really aren’t much cop and you would be better off with something else on those wheels.

imposter2.0

Tyresome wrote:

lesfirth wrote:

First,you can still get 3x your Tesco vouchers with Evans. I have just opened the box of my Mavic Cosmic Elite disc wheels that I thought were a good buy at £295.( actually vouchers and some cash) The Evans description does mention tyres but I was not expecting to see what I had in the box. They come with Yksion tyres fitted!!!!! even 25mm that I was going to buy.

Those tyres tend to come with Mavic WTS road wheelsets. They are not particularly good tyres, in my experience.

Interested to hear more about your experiences with those tyres...

StillGoing

I run Mavics Yksion Pro UST on my Cosmic Pro Carbon sl UST wheels and can't fault them.

lesfirth

philthy3 wrote:

I run Mavics Yksion Pro UST on my Cosmic Pro Carbon sl UST wheels and can't fault them.

/www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/road-bike-reviews/mavic-yksion-pro-ust-2018
This site does not think they are censored either.

cgfw201

Really liked how Yksions feel and roll, but never had so many punctures as on those tyres.

Had them come with 3 sets of new Mavic wheels, same experience each time.

diamonddog

I have Mavic/Yksions on one of my bikes and I am not overly impressed, they seem a bit ‘dead’ in comparison to the ones on my other bike.

timothyw

Big difference between the Yksion UST (tubeless) tyres and the regular Yksions which aren't much cop..

https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.co ... elite-2018

It isn't clear from the Evans site which ones you actually get?

sloppyschleckonds

Wayne Plunger wrote:

Evans advertise them as wts so struggling to see why you are surprised.

Welcome to lesfirth world

Vino'sGhost

Tyresome

cgfw201 wrote:

Really liked how Yksions feel and roll, but never had so many punctures as on those tyres.

Had them come with 3 sets of new Mavic wheels, same experience each time.

They have a fairly low thread count, they aren’t much good for puncture protection.

imposter2.0

Tyresome wrote:

cgfw201 wrote:

Really liked how Yksions feel and roll, but never had so many punctures as on those tyres.

Had them come with 3 sets of new Mavic wheels, same experience each time.

They have a fairly low thread count, they aren’t much good for puncture protection.

Congratulations on registering your tenth user account, Nick.

keef66

Imposter wrote:

Tyresome wrote:

cgfw201 wrote:

Really liked how Yksions feel and roll, but never had so many punctures as on those tyres.

Had them come with 3 sets of new Mavic wheels, same experience each time.

They have a fairly low thread count, they aren’t much good for puncture protection.

Congratulations on registering your tenth user account, Nick.

Noooooo! Mind you, finally an appropriate user-name :?

chippyk

Bloke who runs the local bike shop, good cross racer, swears by Yksion tyres on his road bike, was stunned when I said put them back on the shelf when he offered me them. Personally I’ve never had such a puncture prone tyre though.

thegreatdivide

I've been running Yksion Pro Griplink/Powerlink SSC tyres exclusively on my RSYS-SLR wheels since buying them in the Autumn of 2013 and I'm now running the tub version on a set of Ksyrium Pro Carbon SL. In all that time I've had one puncture a few years back when I went over a bit of metal. I've also never had an issue with grip either. So either we have the cleanest roads up here (we don't) or you lot are spectacularly unlucky.

I think they're great tyres.

markyone

I have had the tubular version and they are made by tufo,they never used to be but the
Latest ones are.
I found them very hard.

Tyresome

These are the ones I took off the last set of Mavic Cosmic Elites I bought. They are the same as the tyres I had on the previous Mavic WTS Wheelset I had, and they were really not very good ( regarding grip / traction and durability /P* protection) rather than rolling performance ( which wasn’t too bad ). I took them off straight away and fitted Durano plus, which fair much better in the conditions we’ve got round my way at present.

-Dash

I had some Yksion tyres with my bike. They didn't seem bad at rolling resistance and had no punctures but they were awful in the wet. Literally spinning on slight rises.

Lucky Luke

Don't think the Yksion Elite (which I've no experience of) and the Yksion Pro (which I think are great tyres BTW) are the same.

Tyresome

Lucky Luke wrote:

Don't think the Yksion Elite (which I've no experience of) and the Yksion Pro (which I think are great tyres BTW) are the same.

Possibly not.