Vittoria Rubino Pro Control G+ Clincher Tire

Vittoria Rubino Pro Control G+ Clincher Tire Info

If you do a lot of road riding in the winter when all road shoulders are covered in jagged gravel and forgotten broken bottles, the Vittoria Rubino Pro Control G+ Clincher Tire will be your constant and reliable companion.

Vittoria set out to make a heavy-duty tire that still felt lithe enough for long days in the hills. The Rubino Pro Control G+ Clinchers are the result, and will keep you protected from puncture causing potholes or sidewall-shredding gravel roads. Though this tire is a little more stout than the Rubino Pro Speed or Rubino Pro, it is hardly obese, weighing a still reasonable 280 grams in the 23mm width. Considering the sort of protection you will be getting, those extra grams will hardly sink the excursion. An extra casing layer can be credited for the protection and blamed for the weight. Other than that, you are getting the same advancements in this tire that you do in the pricier Rubinos. Vittoria employs their 3C or three compound layering process, which uses three different compounds in the tread in order to give the different point of the tire the type of qualities required: strength at the sidewall, smooth rolling in the center, durability and grip at the sides. Then they also include their G+ Isotech technology. The G+ refers to the Graphene, which is an atom wide carbon compound, added to the rubber. It works to help reduce rolling resistance and weight while increasing durability and wet-weather grip. The tires will be hard and fast when plowing through a long straight, but then supple and grippy once you need to fly down a technical descent. The tread has also been given a smooth center and herringboned outside to keep it fast in the middle and tacky in the corners.

The quality of the grip in the wet as well as the tire’s ability to stay tacky even in sub-freezing conditions will make the Vittoria Rubino Pro Control G+ Clincher Tire an ideal winter training tire.