Tyres - yeah, what's better than a post on tyres? Two posts of course!
Above is a picture of my rear tyre after 400 miles. Yeah, just 400 miles and none of them on the turbo. I love the Vittoria's, I really do. But 400 miles to do that isn't great by any stretch. Especially when you're looking at 3000+ miles during the course of one race. Oh and if you thought it was just an issue with the Open Pave's...
...that red/orange stuff is tyre. That should be still attached to the tyre. I wouldn't mind but thats a turbo specific tyre and the dust is after one long session. I've now got mounds of the stuff covering the spare bedroom and anything in the spare bedroom. I even emptied some out of my keyboard the other day, it gets everywhere.
So some sort of slightly more resilient tyre is needed. I hate heavy stiff tyres though, they feel awful to ride. Once the weather gets nicer I'll give some Conti GP4000's a try as everyone raves about them, until then I'll just keep destroying tyres from the Kitch Tyre museum....
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