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30-01.-2006, 02:16 PM
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Favourite tubular racing tire
If you could race on any tubular tire which brand and model would it be, im looking to upgrade the tires on my race wheels but im not sure which type to get!
thanks for any help
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03-02.-2006, 05:45 AM
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Re: Favourite tubular racing tire
Continental Sprinter 250.
Durable (as tubulars go) , quite resistant to flats, and if you are purchasing all of your own equipment for racing, you can confidently spend $55.00 every few weeks.  |
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03-02.-2006, 09:23 AM
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Re: Favourite tubular racing tire
thanks for the advice, has anybody tried out vittoria or huchinson?
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03-02.-2006, 08:14 PM
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Re: Favourite tubular racing tire
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Vittoria open corsa CX and KX - both nice feel and good grip but not great puncture resistance. Now ride Conti Competition - very good. Tufo Elite Road nice too. |
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04-02.-2006, 12:35 AM
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Re: Favourite tubular racing tire
My Norco CRR Team build came with Hutchinson Fusion Comp tires. I mean, really light tires, but they must be partially made of brie cheese. One season and I flatted out of races THREE times. It was my first race season and I only did about 15 races. So that gives you some idea...
I've heard great things about the Conti Ultra Gatorskin. They come in at 218 (my buddy weighed them on his wife's soap-maker's scale). Apparently the Health Net boys use them for racing. I'll probably pick up a pair and try them out. Here's a link: http://www.biketiresdirect.com/productdetail.asp?p=COUGF
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09-02.-2006, 06:38 AM
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Re: Favourite tubular racing tire
If you don't look at Tufo you'll kick yourself. I've tried continental and vittoria and the Tufo is superior. Tougher construction, tougher rubber, they hold a ton of pressure and don't seem to lose it, plus their tufo tape beats cement hands down.
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09-02.-2006, 01:12 PM
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Re: Favourite tubular racing tire
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I ride nothing but tubulars, and have for the past 25 years...300 tubulars of all different brands. In the old days, I used Vittoria CXs in the front and CGs in the back, and switched to Panaracers, then Continental Sprinter 250s which I rode happily for ten years. Then, while at a race about five years ago, a British rider told me I should try Tufo tubulars. I used to go through ten to fifteen tires a year, and now I use an average of four tires a year. The High Carbon Content tires have great grip and wear, and with the Tufo sealant and glue strips, I don't even carry a spare, just a quick fill. When you pump one to 120 lb. off the rim, the tire is so uniform it doesn't potato-chip like every other brand. They are perfectly round with no annoying variations or high spots. Not that you would, but some models are good to 220 lb. (I use the 260 g. tires. The 215 g. S3 Lites were a bit hard and skinny for the Utah roads I have to deal with.) I love these tires so much they are my everyday tires, with a pair mounted on my Campy Hyperons, Zipp 202s, and Zipp 303s. In fact, I am more likely to break a Zipp spoke than flat a Tufo. I have never encountered any product of any kind that was so clearly superior to anything else in it's class. Well, except maybe for WD-40... 
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