Will Tadej Pogačar use the limited edition tyre to claim victory at this year's Tour de France?
(Image credit: Continental)
Ahead of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, Continental has launched the Archetype tyre, designed to meet the needs of hot favourite for the overall win, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar, and the UAE Team Emirates XRG pros.
The new tyre is billed as a limited edition and available in limited qua🌌ntities at a r♛ecommended price of £94.99 / $103.90 / €105.95.
While a few years ago, pro teams would be riding on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:23mm tubs, the Archetype tyre comes in a 30mm width only. There's still room to spare in the team's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Colnago V5Rs bikes, which offer 32mm tyre clearance.
The Archetype tyre is tubeless-ready and designed to work with hookless beads, such as those on the team’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enve wheels. Conti rates the tyre for a pressure range from 65 to 73 psi – more numbers unhear🌺🉐d of in racing just a few years ago.
At 275g, the new tyre is lighter, with a 275g claimed weight that Conti says is 35g less than the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Grand Prix 5000 S TR in the same width. Conti recommends a minimum of 30ml of sealant per tyre, so there’s not much extra weight th🦄ere൲ either.
Is this Pogačar's latest secret weapon? (Image credit: Continental)
In the past, we’ve seen the pros, including Pogačar, riding the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:GP5000 TT TR on road stages. Although it's only available in 25mm and 28mm widths, the 28mm comes in lighter still at 240g. As a Conti-sponsored team, UAE Team Emirates XRG also has the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Continental Aero 111 front tyre at its disposal. Th🎃is has a pattern of vortex generators in its tread that Conti says makes it the most aero tyre available. It comes in 26mm and 29mm widths, the latter with a claimed 280g weight.
Conti has shoehorned all its tyre tech into the Archetype, including its BlackChili rubber compound, its LazerGrip microprofile shoulder trea🐈d pattern, designed to keep riders rubber side down when cornering, and its Active Comfort Tech for a smoother ride.
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ꦚThe V5Rs frame offers 32mm tyre clearanc🥂e, so there's room for tyre width to grow further. (Image credit: Continental)
The availability in 30mm width only meets the needs of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates XRG, but as Will explained recently, should the UCI decide to implement its proposed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:maximum metres of development rule, it would fall foul ♏of the new ruling. The draft regulation would mean that the team could, at least in theory, run a maximum 28mm width tyre with the 54x11-tooth highest gear ratio of their Shimano Dura-Ace 🉐groupsets.
With 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:wider tyres being not just faster, but also potentially safer, forcing pros to reduce their tyre width seems a little perv𒀰erse.
Paul has been on two wheels since he was in his teens and he's spent much of the time since writing about bikes and the associated tech. He's a road cyclist at heart but his adventurous curiosity means Paul has been riding gravel since well before it was cool, adaptiꦰng his cyclo-cross bike to ride all-day off-road epics and putting road kit to the ultimate test along the way. Paul has contributed to Cyclingnews' tech coverage for a few years, helping to maintain the ♋freshness of our buying guides and deals content, as well as writing a number of our voucher code pages.
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