Note: I purchased the tires myself. Continental was not involved in any way. After riding over 3,000 km with the Schwalbe Rick XC, I wanted to know how the new Continental Dubnital, the successor to the Race King, would perform and whether it would provide more grip and puncture protection on tours. A few weeks…
Note: At my request, Pirelli provided me with a set of tyres for testing via their PR agency. According to Wikipedia, scorpions live mainly in sandy or stony soils. And this is how the Pirelli XC tyres got their name, as they really come into their own on stony and gravely ground. The Pirelli Scorpion…
Bicycle tires are always a very individual thing: If you look away from laboratory measurements, the performance of a bicycle tire is always a question of personal riding style, air pressure, load, the type of preferred surface and your own driving sensitivity. And so it happens that one or the other makes completely different experiences…