Vittoria Open Corsa Evo CX Tire

Like many previous reviews have stated, these tires are meant for speed and racing, rather than flat protection. Although at correct tire pressure, these tires will last on long trips. These light weight tires made it easy to climb 6 to 13 percent grade roads for 25 miles and another trip of 70 miles through paved mountain roads on a 16 pound road bike. Would highly suggest these for racers and climbers, but for long distance and century riders, would prefer the more weighted gator skin tires, only for their increased flat protection and grip during rainy conditions.

I have only one ride on these so can't comment on the durability. But oh the comfort! I swapped out a pair of Rubino Pro's for these and the difference is night and day. The Rubino's feel like solid steel hoops compared to the butter soft ride of these Evo CX's. Having read the other reviews here, I am going to cross my fingers and hope these hold up because there is no way I am going back to the teeth rattling Rubino's! I will say the Rubino Pro's have been bullet proof, not one flat in 15 months of riding. And that included the hottest Hotter 'n Hell 100 in history! So if you are sick to death of flatting all the time, you might like the Rubino's. But if you want a pillowy soft ride, try these Evo's. Yeah, they are tough to mount if you just use your hands, in fact you CAN'T mount them with your hands. I used some giant steel Park levers and was super careful not to pinch the tubes, easy peasy.Update: 6-7-12I added latex tubes and the comfort is even better. Only a few hundred miles now but no defects nor flats.Update: 9-13-12I have had two failures on these tires in the last few months. One was a sidewall casing split with resulting bulge and then blowout. The other was a tread split which I noted prior to a blowout. I will try two more and that's it. They are so comfortable and fast I hate to switch but if the next two fail I will go back to the Rubino Pro.

This is a racing clincher. It is fast and very smooth. Excellent handling. I got 4 puncture flats and 4 pinch flats in 1,800 miles. The tires were cut and sliced quite a bit. After these tires I went with Continental GP 4000 S. After 1,300 miles - no flats on the 4000 S tires - hardly a scratch on them. Same roads - same riding conditions. The Continental GP 4000 S tire is bullet proof - a great training tire. The Vitoria however provides a lot less rolling resistance. For me averaging 19 - 20 mph on the same 90 minute loop - it took 21 more watts to achieve the exact same average speed on the Continental tires. Generally the Vitoria tire at the same power would deliver about 0.4-0.5 mph greater speed. I rated this Vittoria Open Corsa EVO CX with 5 stars because it is so fast and smooth! If you don't care about the speed and don't want to risk the flats - I recommend the Continental GP 4000 S.

The Vittoria OC EVO CX 700x23c tires provide the most comfortable ride I have had since owning a road bike with 700mm wheels. Although they dampen perceived road roughness, they are fast and apparently tough. In a half dozen 30-50 mile rides, the tires have sustained utterly no cuts or other damage, a unique experience. I inspect my tires before each ride, and prior to these, hardly a week passed without having to remove bits of embedded glass or fill tread cuts. Not so with these tires, and they have rolled over a fair amount of road trash following recent storms.Out of the box, the tires were difficult to mount; however, when a broken stem necessitated a tube replacement, remounting the tire was easier.Previous tires used were comparably priced Bontrager, Vriedestein, and Specialized. These will be my default tires unless tread-life and overall longevity fail to impress as much as other qualities.

Love these tires - very comfortable ride. I don't get as many miles out of them as the Continentals (4 season and Grand Prix 4000s) I used to ride with, but they are much more comfortable to ride. I was amazed what a difference it makes. I was nervous at first because I do a lot of long rides (60-100 miles) and I hate getting flats. Never had a flat with these, though towards the end of it's life I found a nasty sidewall cut that forced me to get rid of them.

I was so impressed with this tire in my first race I decided to make it my daily riding tire on both my TT and road bike (even though Vittoria does call it race only!). It is supple, absorbs road imperfections, great grip, fast rolling, and also gets cuts like butter. My tires performed well in races, but you are rolling the dice each and every mile with this tire. On anything less than perfect roads it will get cut up extremely fast, and by cut I mean down right through the tire to the tube. I have had a cut on each my road and TT bike than rendered the tire useless...it held enough to finish my ride with a butyl tube replacement, but the tube was visible each time and the tire was done. The tires that have not been sliced yet are showing extreme cut wear (tread is fine) and they are only about 300 miles in.Vittoria is very clear and says they are race only tires and they mean it. I just ordered 2 new ones for my race wheels, but will not use them anymore for daily riding, I learned my lesson. Putting some Continental 4000 S tires on for daily use.

This is an excellent tire. I have been riding for a few hundred miles now and they are holding up well. Noticeably better speed as the rolling resistance is less. I will add further updates but I would recommend that high end tires like these are a must. I combined them with a new set of Mavic Aksium wheels also and the performance is awesome. Much easier to get to higher speeds and keep up with the pack of more experienced riders

I used to use the Zipp tangente and since I started using these as my race tires, I really like them. They seem to grip really well and for the most part are puncture resistant. If you want bomb proof for pictures, then you need to get the gator skins. But for racing, I go with these.

For forty years since racing on tubulars I have had a grumbling suspicion that clinchers could never be as good. This tyre has finally overcome my clincher prejudice! Paired with the right rims I t is as fast and responsive with as good a ride as any tubs I trained and raced on in the seventies. It is not a heavy city tyre and will not last long subject to debris lined rough city roads. It is however supremely good at doing what it’s meant to do and not sure that the newer versions with Graphene are any improvement! The day six flat molecules of carbon keep a Chiltern flint fragment out of my tube in the words of Bart Simpson I’ll eat my shorts.

DO NOT BUY THESE IF YOU DO CITY RIDING. I bought front and rear and had 3 punctures in 1 week, one of them a piece of normal gravel that went straight through the tyre wall. These are not suitable for commuting roads so unless you are on a very smooth surface / race track forget buying them.

Très bon rendu sur routes dégradées grâce aux 320 tpi mais dès que la route est mouillée ce pneu est une vraie savonnette. Perte d'adhérence sur rond points, virages serrés, et patine en côte.Commentaires pour la roue arrière seulement. Bizarrement sur la roue avant pas de souci.