No, that's just you commenting on a 2 plus year old comment thinking you know the full story.Tinea Pedis wrote:So in the ultimate n=1 and confirmation bias you've found they're thin with no puncture protection - with anecdotal engineering assessment being that Graphene is bullshit.
Got it.
Note I did say it was my personal view, so yes it is anecdotal, I had a crap experience and put them in the bin, just like the majority of others would do in the same situation, no amount of engineers telling how great something is, is going to trump your own experience and I suspect you know that.
I will say for the short time they were on the bike they rolled well and I did like their performance, but getting a critical cut just a short time in to using them means that it isn't worth the risk.
And how I came to the decision Graphene is just marketing bs in tyre applications isn't on just my own anecdotal evidence, it's based on local data from the cycling community here (yes a larger amount of anecdotal evidence, since no one is going to serious research in to it, but it does remove individuals biases), where the increased puncture protection promised by the addition of Graphene hasn't materialised. That includes those using the Corsa Speed as well.
No one denies that the latest generation tyres roll well, but at the same time there is no decrease, in fact we've an increase in the number of punctures locally over the previous gen Vittoria tyres. Some are happy to accept that because they like the feel and lower rolling resistance, I on the other hand don't want to be changing tyres every few hundred Kms.
Also note that at the time I tried them, the control version of the tyres wasn't available, maybe they're better, certainly I think they are more a direct comparison to the GP4k/GP5k than the speed version.
I actually preferred the old generation Vittoria tyres (Open Corsa/Pave), since they offered the best protection, rolling resistance and feel for my use case. Which was why I was excited to try these in the first place.
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