Ok, so then what do I put on the front that doesn't cost me anything? Right now I only intend to buy one tire, as I still have a good GP4000, and I weigh not dropping $60+ as more important than the relatively limited gains I get from upgrading from the GP4000.
This is strictly for my race wheels, so they might get 20-30 uses a year, including pre-riding the day before and if I'm lazy and have back to back race weekends. The training wheels have a Gator Skin and and an Armadillo tire. I wouldn't dare race with those save maybe a training crit where I don't care about the outcome. As it is, keeping up on Wednesday Night Worlds on those sucks.
My longer term solution is to replace with faster tires on the race wheels than the GP4000s, though. A couple years ago I bought into them as the holy grail of triathlon race tires without much thought. Ready to move beyond them now, but just can't justify tossing the good one.
One question I did just think of re: the Turbo Cotton, is how its cornering characteristics are. I race ITU as well, with the same wheels, so if the Turbo Cottons are fast as hell in a straight line but slide out from under me on wet cobbles, I'd need to think a bit more.
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This is strictly for my race wheels, so they might get 20-30 uses a year, including pre-riding the day before and if I'm lazy and have back to back race weekends. The training wheels have a Gator Skin and and an Armadillo tire. I wouldn't dare race with those save maybe a training crit where I don't care about the outcome. As it is, keeping up on Wednesday Night Worlds on those sucks.
My longer term solution is to replace with faster tires on the race wheels than the GP4000s, though. A couple years ago I bought into them as the holy grail of triathlon race tires without much thought. Ready to move beyond them now, but just can't justify tossing the good one.
One question I did just think of re: the Turbo Cotton, is how its cornering characteristics are. I race ITU as well, with the same wheels, so if the Turbo Cottons are fast as hell in a straight line but slide out from under me on wet cobbles, I'd need to think a bit more.
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