Road Bike Tyres 28C

[Mike Dewing]

3 hours ago, The Ouzo said:

if I could afford to run 2 sets of tyres, or even better, 2 sets of wheels, I'd have the Pirellis for training and the something fast like the GP5000 for race day.

I adopt the same principles as I did with golf or my self defense training.. train/practice with what you are going to use when it counts.. 

doesn’t make sense to practice with rubbish golf balls and use pro vx1 on comp day.. two different balls are going to behave very differently.. 

[Mamil]

Nothing quite like taking the wire bead gatorskins off and putting the brand new gp5000 on and suddenly feeling like you're just that much better of a rider

[Furbz]

Bicyclerollingresistance.com

And of course GP 5000 s-tr if you are tubeless. 

Its the king of tires

Edited 12 hours ago by Furbz

[W@nted]

+1 for Gp5000. 
 

I had the pirellis, but wear and puncture protection not par with the gp5000

[cadenceblur]

Conti GP5000s are topclass. A notable cheaper option is also the Kenda Valkyries 

[Spinnekop]

I was a big supporter of the GP5000 until the pricing just killed me.
Crossed over to the Goodyear F1 R in the 28mm.
https://www.goodyearbike.com/tires/eagle-f1-r/

I got on my previous GP5000 5700 km before my first puncture.  This is normally the first indication that the tyre is getting thin. (Besides the markers that get faint on the tyre)
With the Goodyear I got 7749 km.
Very impressed.

Currently I am trying out the Vector R tyre from Goodyear in the 30mm.
Cannot feel any huge difference at the moment between the Vector and the F1.  Have around 1300km on it at the moment with no issues.

[thebob]

The Cadex range of tyres from Giant are also worth a look. Pricing is ok, but the ride quality, puncture protection and grip are excellent

Edited 43 minutes ago by thebob