I'm using the Hutchinson Gold tyres (About $25 or R270ZA). I don’t care if it's fast or not. Seeing that I'm an everyday cyclist, I don’t want to spend time on repairing punctures. And I can promise you this. I bought the current set in Feb this year, for the Argus, and only had ONE puncture since. It was a piece if wire that went through the side of the casing. The only negative is that it has two thin yellow lines running alongside and sometime your eye let you believe that the rim got a "wobble". In fact, it is when dirt sticks on the line and broke the pattern.