VITTORIA RANDONNEUR CROSS WEIGHT PATCH
VITTORIA RANDONNEUR CROSS WEIGHT PLUS

VITTORIA RANDONNEUR CROSS WEIGHT PLUS

Given that they've been ridden for several months over and through some testing conditions that included brand new tarmac, floods, broken roads, rooty singletrack more suited to mountain bikes, snow, mud, wide rutted tracks, slurry and even some actual gravel, with their sturdy character they're standing up to the ill treatment amazingly well and far beyond expectations, which makes their price, which is in the ballpark for this sort of thing, a bit of a bargain.Д¬ompared to the similarly tread-averse Maxxis Receptor, it's a heavier tyre but looks to be more adaptable and robust off-road (and the Maxxis is ВЈ50 at rrp) it squares up nicely against the ВЈ55 WTB Byway too, and could give the gravel favourite Panaracer GravelKing Semi Slick Plus TLC a good run for its money too, which is ВЈ49.99 at rrp. They're even not impossible in thick mud as they can carve quite nicely through it, and there's the logic-bending theory that a tyre that doesn't have any tread doesn't have any tread that can clog with mud, which works, to an extent. your willingness to test these tyres' suitability off road may vary, but they're more versatile than their road and packed gravel designation would suggest. I do, though, have a history of mountain biking, cyclo-cross and taking skinny tyred bikes down unsuitable paths, sometimes deliberately, obsessing over tyre choice and then having to deal with tyre choices inappropriate to the surface, so I'm used to a bike bouncing and squirming about beneath me. Although that might be down to the inappropriately pointy and rooty paths I took these tyres down, and if you're just running them on more level ground then this is much less of an issue.Дon't be put off by the lack of tread вЂ“ I've been diverting well away from tarmac and taking these off road over terrain that would be more suited to a mountain bike and under all sorts of conditions, and the tyres have been stunningly ok considering their baldness. I found tyre pressure to be quite crucial, with the sweet spot between feeling too firm and bottoming out on square edges quite defined. Given the abuse they've been put under they should have fared far worse for a slick road based tyre and been nicked and ripped to pieces.

VITTORIA RANDONNEUR CROSS WEIGHT PATCH

It refused to seal, was tubed to get home, and with an internal patch glued in, that tyre's been rolling fine since then. > BuyerвЂ™s Guide: 25 of the best go-anywhere gravel bike tyresДuring the test period they've suffered only one puncture and that was a small flint slash, something that's not uncommon around these parts. I've been running them all winter over all kinds of terrain, from smooth blacktop, across gravel of all grades, along rocky off-road to really-shouldn't-be-here thick mud, and they're deceptively capable over all of these surfaces and are also showing very little signs of wear. The plus side to this is that they're incredibly robust, so happily take crappy tarmac and potholes in their stride, romp over packed gravel paths and perform far better than you might expect on other rougher surfaces. On a road environment they're not the fastest tread-free gravel tyres around not that they're necessarily slow, but they rumble along rather than skip lively compared with other slick gravel tyres, the thickness of the rubber of the centre tread the possible culprit here. Real world experience would suggest all of this to be true. The Terreno Zero also features a 120TPI construction with a reinforced casing Vittoria admits that might add weight to the tyre but claims it improves strength, resistance and puncture protection. All of them use a graphene compound in their rubber, something only Vittoria uses in its tyres, claiming that this revolutionary material allows for natural material barriers of rubber to be removed so there is no compromise between speed, grip, durability and puncture resistance. The Terreno Zero is the slickest tyre in Vittoria's gravel range, with the Terreno Dry, Terreno Mix and Terreno Wet models offering increased tread patterns for more off-road and muddy conditions. But don't let appearances fool you, as it's more capable than that if you're willing to give it a go. On the surface, the Terreno Zero is a large volume road or slick gravel tyre that is best suited to tarmac and finely graded off-road paths.

The Vittoria Terreno Zero TLR G2.0 is a slick gravel tyre that's designed for road and smooth off-road duties but is capable of much more.

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