Fastest Tires In France! | Tour de France Tire Roundup | Unpack This

High-performance road tires are the ultimate upgrade if you want race-winning speed. We take a closer look at the three best tubeless-ready road tires that the pros are riding at this year’s Tour de France: the Vittoria Corsa Pro, Continental Grand Prix 5000, and Specialized S-Works Turbo.

Subscribe: @theproscloset

0:00 Intro
0:48 Tire Line Up
1:46 Who's running which tires?
2:27 Similarities
2:54 Racing Tire Benchmarks
3:22 Vittoria Corsa Pro TLR G2.0
4:13 Continental GP 5000 S TR
5:05 Specialized S-Works Turbo RapidAir 2Bliss Ready - T2/T5
6:20 Which one is right for you?

[andyboxish]

You can get the GP500 S TR in tan wall as well. Fantastic tire.

[B_KFC_Leg]

I think the Specialized sponsored team are still using the turbo cotton with latex inner tube in most occasion instead of the newer S works turbo tubeless tyres

[mortlow]

I love Vittoria cotton tires and want to test this new Corsa pros but at the moment they are much to expensive. I mean i have get a set of gp 5000 s tr 28 mm for only 80€ so... I will never pay more than 100€ for a set of tires.

[Music-pqcm]

Been using Vittoria cotton casing high TPI tires since the early 90’s. So smooth. Used them for racing when I raced and always for training. Just wish they’d make the Corsa Pro with a black sidewall; the natural/tan doesn’t look ideal with my bike colors.

[mgrant]

What about schwabbe pro ? Those came on my high end bike and they are awesome. At least as good as GP5000

[spartanbike]

quickstep and bora are using swork cotton clinchers. the new sw turbo are just not fast enough

[rudyelizondo]

The specialized swirls tire is the smoothest to me then the Continental 5000

[windscreen]

Pretty sure the riders on Contis were on TT-TR and not S-TR

[twaintuber]

What about ease of mounting and puncture resistance? Based on past experience Specialized is easiest to mount and remove. Vittoria is ok to mount, difficult to remove. Conti's very difficult to mount, difficult to remove. Puncture resistance - the Vittorias are so sticky it seems they attract punctures. Specialized - very good puncture resistance. Contis, in the middle. For overall livability, I give the nod to Specialized.

[ferventheat]

Im guessing the pros that use these tyres also get them qc and weight checked prior to receipt. The manufacturers wants to give them the lightest, best made of the bunch. I wonder if certain 'golden' batches are also earmarked for pro use.
Just like a CPU chip, there will be variations in performance between tyres and the higher hertz chips are made exactly the same aa the lower Hz but just perform better.

[darinsteele]

GP's way too difficult to mount will not buy them anymore for that 1 reason, otherwise they are great.

[makantahi]

any tire with a sufficiently doped driver can win any race

[jempanuncialman]

If the tires are much grippy it means much contact on the ground.

[Jamesthefastguy]

You Won’t Win Any Race
Unless drop some pounds
Everybody forgets body weight play vital role in speed and performance

[reflectionsdetail]

Wheels are the number one, then tires

[keepitreal]

Correction to the pro's closet.

95% of world tour pro teams have been using TR tyres since the start if the season.
Tubulars are very rarely used.

You got this the wrong way around.

[griffithd]

Tan walls > any other metric. Rather be slower and look good