Designed for all roads, this tyre gives you world-class fast rolling and cornering as well as maximum control as you clock up the miles. Technologies: Challenge Handmade Clinchers (HCL): Our Handmade Clinchers are made from the same materials and processes as our handmade tubulars but instead of sewing an inner tube inside the casing is wrapped around an aramid bead to form a tire that fits on a clincher rim. The HCL is moulded flat, not in a horseshoe like a TLR or VCL. This shape allows the casing to naturally deform over surface imperfections and minimize rolling resistance. A tubeless tire is moulded in a U-shape to make the sidewalls rigid, so the system does not “burp” or lose air when it deforms after it encounters a surface imperfection. The tubeless tire’s stiff sidewall compromises its ability to equal a supple HCL with a latex inner tube.
This tyre is also designed to be super-fast rolling with maximum control on dry hard pack, wet grass or even icy riding conditions Technologies: Challenge Handmade Clinchers (HCL): Our Handmade Clinchers are made from the same materials and processes as our handmade tubulars but instead of sewing an inner tube inside the casing is wrapped around an aramid bead to form a tyre that fits on a clincher rim. The HCL is moulded flat, not in a horseshoe like a TLR or VCL. This shape allows the casing to naturally deform over surface imperfections and minimize rolling resistance. A tubeless tyre is moulded in a U-shape to make the sidewalls rigid, so the system does not “burp” or lose air when it deforms after it encounters a surface imperfection. The tubeless tyre’s stiff sidewall compromises its ability to equal a supple HCL with a latex inner tube.
Open Tubular (Clincher) An open tubular is constructed using the same casing and tread materials and process as a tubular, but instead of sewing the casing together (closed), the sides of the tubular casing are folded around aramid fibre cords to produce beads. This ‘open’ design performs like a tubular, yet conveniently mounts like a standard clincher tyre. If combined with a Latex inner tube the ride becomes even closer to that of a tubular, offering excellent traction and cornering, low rolling resistance and shock absorption.
Challenge Strada Bianca ProTubular Cyclocross TyreThe Challenge Challenge Strada Bianca ProTubular Cyclocross Tyre offers world-class fast rolling resistance and is specifically designed for gravel riding and racing. It's also ideal for those with gravel bikes who are looking for a tyre that enables you to run lower pressures for more comfortable road riding without the worry of puncturing. This is thanks to the double PPS (Puncture Protection System) between the tread and casing, which provides excellent durability without excess bulk.Hand AssembledChallenge uses the latest technical materials such as corespun for the inner casing of these tyres. This material produces a very high TPI (threads-per-inch) count to ensure the ultimate in strength, suppleness, and low weight. This casing is then hand glued on to the tread, which has previously been installed and inflated on a rim. This means that when the assembled tyre is inflated, it provides more precise handling, lower rolling resistance, and better grip.Shock AbsorbingThe best materials have been used to obtain consistent grip over uneven terrain and reduce the vibration feedback to the rider, helping you to maintain grip and control on even the longest and roughest races. The advanced design reduces wheel skipping and jumping over rough surfaces, ensuring efficient grip and helping you to maintain your speed. These tyres also feature a double layer of Challenge's PPS (puncture protection system) between the tread and casing, to give you confidence when blasting over tree roots and sharp rocks.Features: Size: 700 Tyre Width: 30mm Internal Rim Width: 15-19mm TPI: 260 Casing: SuperPoly Flat Protection: Double PPS BAR: 4-10 PSI: 60-150 Inner Tube: LatexTechnologies: Challenge Handmade Tubulars (HTU): Our Handmade Tubular (HTU) tires perform better than any tubeless system! Therefore, they are raced by all the top athletes and teams in every cycling segment. The latex inner tube we cradled inside the high-quality casing that is sewn shut, forming a soft protective layer for the delicate tube. A base tape is glued over the sewing for protection and to absorb the adhesive later applied to hold the tubular on the rim. The carcass is mounted on a rim, inflated and a special natural rubber tread is precisely glued on top. Puncture protection layers and sealants can be applied to the finished casing, depending on the tubular's use.Buy Challenge Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World's Largest Online Bike Store.
Challenge Elite Tubular Road TyreThe Challenge Elite Tubular Road Tyre features a herringbone tread pattern on a Poly compound; it's designed to provide exceptional rolling performance, traction, grip and superb reliability on both dry and wet terrain conditions. This tyre provides fantastic cornering traction, ensuring complete rider confidence at high speed while providing generous shock absorbing as it soaks up the chatter and bumps on the road surface. Engineered for durability, this tyre is perfect for both training and racing, as it handles all the challenges that are associated with riding on rough roads in the winter and in the spring. Features: Use: Road, Training Size: 700 Tyre Width: 25mm Internal Rim Width: 13-15mm TPI: 220 Casing: Poly Flat Protection: PPS BAR: 7-12 PSI: 100-175 Inner Tube: Butyl Weight: 295gTechnologies: Challenge Handmade Tubulars (HTU): These Handmade Tubular (HTU) tyres perform better than any tubeless system! Therefore, they are raced by all the top athletes and teams in every cycling segment. The latex inner tube we cradled inside the high-quality casing that is sewn shut, forming a soft protective layer for the delicate tube. A base tape is glued over the sewing for protection and to absorb the adhesive later applied to hold the tubular on the rim. The carcass is mounted on a rim, inflated and a special natural rubber tread is precisely glued on top. Puncture protection layers and sealants can be applied to the finished casing, depending on the tubular's use.Buy Challenge Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World's Largest Online Bike Store.
Challenge Almanzo Tubular Mountain Bike TyreThe Challenge Almanzo Tubular MTB Tyre brings the rolling performance and traction benefits of the tubular tyre system to mountain bikes. Featuring two layers of puncture protection, a supple and tough SuperPoly tread compound and a reinforced 260 TPI casing; this tyre provides exceptional rider confidence thanks to the its grip and traction qualities, which enables you to rider faster over gravel terrain.Features: Use: Gravel Type: Tubular Puncture Protection: Double PPS Casing: SuperPoly TPI: 260 Inflation Pressure: 60 - 130 psi Weight: 385gBuy Challenge Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World's Largest Online Bike Store.
Challenge Almanzo Tubular Mountain Bike TyreThe Challenge Almanzo Tubular MTB Tyre brings the rolling performance and traction benefits of the tubular tyre system to mountain bikes. Featuring two layers of puncture protection, a supple and tough SuperPoly tread compound and a reinforced 260 TPI casing; this tyre provides exceptional rider confidence thanks to the its grip and traction qualities, which enables you to rider faster over gravel terrain.Features: Use: Gravel Type: Tubular Puncture Protection: Double PPS Casing: SuperPoly TPI: 260 Inflation Pressure: 60 - 130 psi Weight: 385gBuy Challenge Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World's Largest Online Bike Store.
Challenge Almanzo Gravel Open Tubular TyreThis highly-effective gravel tyre features a tubular construction and double-layered puncture protection for excellent durability. The 'open' design of the tyre performs like a tubular, yet conveniently mounts like a standard clincher tyre. Plus, its tight tread offers excellent grip at high speeds, making it a reliable racing tyre even on tougher surfaces. Designed to give you more control than the Strada Bianca tyre and faster rolling resistance than the Gravel Grinder when cornering.Features: Use: Hard Pack Dirt to Light Gravel Size: 700 Tyre Width: 33mm Internal Rim Width: 15-19mm TPI: 260 Bead: Aramid Casing: SuperPoly Flat Protection: Double PPS BAR: 3-9 PSI: 45-130 Weight: 385gTechnologies: Challenge Handmade Clinchers (HCL): Our Handmade Clinchers are made from the same materials and processes as our handmade tubulars but instead of sewing an inner tube inside the casing is wrapped around an aramid bead to form a tire that fits on a clincher rim. The HCL is moulded flat, not in a horseshoe like a TLR or VCL. This shape allows the casing to naturally deform over surface imperfections and minimize rolling resistance. A tubeless tire is moulded in a U-shape to make the sidewalls rigid, so the system does not “burp” or lose air when it deforms after it encounters a surface imperfection. The tubeless tire's stiff sidewall compromises its ability to equal a supple HCL with a latex inner tube.Buy Challenge Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World's Largest Online Bike Store.
The best all-around cyclocross tyre ever created excels in wet or dry, soft packed, rocky and root-infested courses, grass, and more. The Grifo features fast rolling knobs and a centre section that offers excellent pedalling and braking traction.Key Features:Colour: Tan.,TPI: 300.,Recommended Pressure: 22-35psi.,Puncture Protection: PPS.,Rubber Compound: SMART.,Construction: Handmade.,Series: PRO.,Size: 28".,Width: 33mm.,Casing: SuperPoly.,Tube Type: Seamless Latex..
Tubular tyres are used mainly in competitions because of their outstanding rolling qualities and their very good emergency operating features (riding whilst deflated). With the Giro, you don't have to renounce those qualities whilst practising. Produced somewhat more simply than a full-on racing tubular, but still rugged and durable, these tubular tyres are obviously only suitable for tubular rims and will need to be glued or taped.Constructed From 2 Plies, Totaling 160 tpiWeighs 300 grams
Couple this with a higher service mileage and a higher level of comfort thanks to the wider casing, and you get a tubular which is especially forgiving with today's ultra stiff racing bikes. Vectran™ Breaker Vectran is a synthetically manufactured high-tech fibre from a natural model. Like spider silk, Vectran is a liquid-crystalline polymer (LCP). Vectran is spun from melted liquid polymer Vectra and processed further to a multi-strand thread. Spider silk, like Vectran, has an enormous tear resistance at a very low weight – exactly the right properties to process into a premium Continental bike tyre as a puncture protection insert. A Vectran Breaker is lighter, more flexible and protects more effectively against cuts than the comparable nylon breaker. Vectran Breaker does not adversely affect the rolling resistance. BlackChili Compound Continental refine newly developed synthetic rubbers with natural rubber with the proven high-performance tread compound. They use these rubbers with special nanometric carbon soot particles, which are optimized in shape and surface properties for best uses for the intended tyre. BlackChili Compound reaches an unprecedented of performance. Tyres with BlackChili Compound reach an unprecedented level of performance. Compared to the previous best Activated Silica Compound, BlackChili tyres have 26% less rolling resistance, a 30 % higher friction value (grip) and a 5 % increase in mileage. TPS TyrePositioning System The narrower front tyre (22mm) provides reduced wind resistance and better handling. An adhesion-optimised tread mixture supplies the necessary grip especially for wet cornering. The wider rear tyre (24mm) offers better traction thanks to a larger contact area and at the same time more comfort. Thanks to the fast rolling, optimised tread mixture and larger contact area on the rear tyre, wear is reduced. The result is a pioneering front and rear tyre system for road racing – to be found in Conti’s GP Attack and Force tyres/tubs.
Couple this with a higher service mileage and a higher level of comfort thanks to the wider casing, and you get a tubular which is especially forgiving with today's ultra stiff racing bikes. Vectran™ Breaker Vectran is a synthetically manufactured high-tech fibre from a natural model. Like spider silk, Vectran is a liquid-crystalline polymer (LCP). Vectran is spun from melted liquid polymer Vectra and processed further to a multi-strand thread. Spider silk, like Vectran, has an enormous tear resistance at a very low weight – exactly the right properties to process into a premium Continental bike tyre as a puncture protection insert. A Vectran Breaker is lighter, more flexible and protects more effectively against cuts than the comparable nylon breaker. Vectran Breaker does not adversely affect the rolling resistance. BlackChili Compound Continental refine newly developed synthetic rubbers with natural rubber with the proven high-performance tread compound. They use these rubbers with special nanometric carbon soot particles, which are optimized in shape and surface properties for best uses for the intended tyre. BlackChili Compound reaches an unprecedented of performance. Tyres with BlackChili Compound reach an unprecedented level of performance. Compared to the previous best Activated Silica Compound, BlackChili tyres have 26% less rolling resistance, a 30 % higher friction value (grip) and a 5 % increase in mileage. TPS TyrePositioning System The narrower front tyre (22mm) provides reduced wind resistance and better handling. An adhesion-optimised tread mixture supplies the necessary grip especially for wet cornering. The wider rear tyre (24mm) offers better traction thanks to a larger contact area and at the same time more comfort. Thanks to the fast rolling, optimised tread mixture and larger contact area on the rear tyre, wear is reduced. The result is a pioneering front and rear tyre system for road racing – to be found in Conti’s GP Attack and Force tyres/tubs.