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Continental Partners: Continental Tires
What is the one thing that you do not want to worry about when you are descending at 50 miles per hour, or trusting your lean on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere? Your tires.
Last month the Rapha Continental toiled their way up and over the Rocky Mountains as they rode Ride the Rockies, spending long days on the bike. Even with the hundreds of miles that they put in going up and over the mountain passes, they still found the time to sample a few sections of gravel, with one being 60 miles long that dropped them into Pagosa Springs.
Rapha Continental partner, Continental Bicycle Tires and Brand Manager Brett Hahn were on hand at Ride the Rockies and was happy to hear that after a collective run of 580+ miles the 6 Continental riders came away with one flat.
The Rapha Continental has been working with Continental Tires since its inception four years ago. The name of the two worked well, but the choice was obvious because of the popularity of the Gatorskins and their near flatproof reputation. Yet, with their new Gator Hardshell Continental has upped the ante. In the past few weeks we have ridden hundreds of collective miles between the 2010 Rapha Gentlemen's Race West Coast and this past weekend at the Deerfield Dirt Randoneé in Western Massachusetts.
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Comments
Jan Sotorník
24th August 2010 06:44pm
continental tires are the best, love the Grand Prix 4000 S
Stefan Rohner
24th August 2010 08:18pm
Jan, yes, but try Veloflex ;)
Ben Brown
24th August 2010 09:00pm
Having tried both I'd go with Contis every time. Puncturing in a British race means race over.
Chris Tree
25th August 2010 10:16am
"What is the one thing that you do not want to worry about when you are descending at 50 miles per hour"
Word! OK it was 40mph, or so I was told afterwards.
I still worry though.