After just 20 rides they wore down and blew out ... went out and put on two new schwalbe ultremo's we will see what happens with those .. I was riding Vreds tricomps for the last year or two... anyone see this type of problem before?
Vittoria Diamante Pro
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I love the Diamante Pros. I've ridden Vred's (too many defects), Conti's (good wear resistance and too much rolling resistance), as well as the Vittoria Open CX's (beautiful tire with no wear resistance). The Diamante Pros combine most of the low rolling resistance of the Open CX's with decent (2,200 miles on rear tire) wear.
Dave
Dave
I am with dkrenik on this one. I tend to use Vittoria clinchers almost exclusively and have had good experiences with Rubino pros as well as with Diamante Pros.
I suspect you may have gotten a dud set or something for them to only last 800 miles... (under 1500km?).
I am now riding Vittoria Open CXs because life is too short not too...
I suspect you may have gotten a dud set or something for them to only last 800 miles... (under 1500km?).
I am now riding Vittoria Open CXs because life is too short not too...
I don't see myself buying another pair of Vittoria's and if these schwalbe's last at all I'm sold these things rolled and spun unbeilivable last night even when I was a little tired at the end they seemed to spin by themselfs ... what a diffrence..
bpatterson said:
The Ultremos are very nice tires. I liked 'em a lot, at least until a belt broke in the rear, causing a very unnatural tire shape. The original Ultremos did have some issues, as with the belts. However, it seems Schwalbe overcame those issues. The '09 Ultremo line looks to be even better.
All '09 Ultremos will come with a new "nano" compound rubber to decrease Crr and increase grip (which was already pretty damned good). Unfortunately, no matter how much I like the Ultremos, I cringe at yet another abuse of the "nano" prefix in cycling. Also, the Vectran belt has been revised and presumably improved, and to supplement the Vectran belt and increase puncture protection, there will be another belt, a rubber belt coated or embedded with ceramic bits. There are additions in '09 to the Ultremo line:
- The Ultremo R: a lightweight flavored clincher, weighing in at around 180g
- The Ultremo DD; another clincher, with the addition of a bead to bead layer of "snakeskin" to improve sidewall protection and provide even more puncture resistance under the tread
- A third clincher I can't remember
I was given a set of Vittoria Open CXs and they stayed on my wheels for about 2 weeks before I had to chuck them, plus they were showing a lot of wear for 800-1000km. They cut way to easy to be used anywhere other then well swept roads, the smallest amount of road debris goes straight through them. Do like the GP4000s roll well and last quite well. I have been riding Vredestein Fortezza Tricomp's now for about 5 months and love them. Roll even better then my Conti Force/Attacks and have the puncture resistance of GP4000s.
unless there is a major malfunction these schwalbe ultremo'sare my tire for lif I put a latex tube in today and it was a wonderful ride
schwalbe ultremo's are the best ... i could do a commercial I already have my LBS getting me the 2009 .. and no flats yet.. knock on wooden tire rims
Careful on the Ultremo clinchers. I have read of several reports of the clincher sidewall 'herniating' after 1~2k km. I have no idea if it was only an issue with a shipment here or there or something more systematic. Anyway, on several Italian forums riders who loved their Ultremo clinchers ran into this issue on a number of occasions.
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