I'm looing forward to trying a set of the Schwalbe Ultremo ZX tubeless. For my use, they look like the best combination of flat and rolling resistance.

My German isn't very good. What do those charts mean? The top one appears to be puncture resistance, but I can't tell what the 2 bars mean.

First chart:

"The lighter bar on the top figure is the time until the tire flatted on a pulsating (dull) blade. The darker one is the force it took to drive a 5.5mm blade through it. "

Second chart:

Rolling resistance. Dunno what the |----| part stands for... margin of error?

Yeah, it's some measure of the experimental/measurement error - without knowing exactly what the error bars are it's hard to know what exactly to conclude. Is this the variation (max/min? 1 sigma?) in measurements from a single tyre, or some 95% confidence interval they got from sampling multiple tyres. I hope they measured several tyres for each model.

Also, I presume this is per tyre? So Conti TT is 2 + 2 = 4W better than my GP4000s? Hell, I'll take 4W.

No sure where you have been getting data but the GP4000s hasn't won RR in long time, if even ever. The Supersonic, Force, and GP4000rs have all done well though in their tests.

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Well, duh (that's directed at Tour, not you ;-)

When you measure Crr on a roller drum, the power required to deform the contact patch from the curved contact is higher than it would be from a flat surface at the same loading. Luckily, there are equations that allow one to easily equate a curved roller value to a "flat surface" value. That's what I do when I measure on rollers. For example, the power required from a tire on a 4.5" diameter roller is ~5-6X what it would be for the same speed and loading on a flat surface.

That's also why I call rollers "Crr amplifiers" ;-)

BTW, the VIttoria Diamante Radiale is an "interesting" tire. The supposed benefit of the "more radial" construction (it's not a true radial) is potentially lower Crr. I got one of these tires and tested it on my rollers and the tread compound is VERY soft and the tire is a real dog. It's also quite "squirrely" on the road. Fairly unsettling, in fact...

It would be interesting to see their treadmill setup. I wonder how they account for the extra drag from however they keep the surface "flat"? Sounds like they could've saved themselves some work and just used the roller-to-flat equations :-/

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Is the GP TT the limited edition tire or is that a different one?

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Yes, it's the limited edition. Previously that was the 4000RS. It was only available for ~1year (in 2010 IIRC)

Not sure where you have been getting your assumptions from but the winner of the tire test is not just the one with the lowest RR. It's determined by a few factors such as grip, weight & puncture resistance. The 4000S won it in 2007,08 and 09. The 4000RS won it in 2010, the year it was sold. Source:
http://www.conti-online.com/...000S/gp4000S_de.html
http://www.conti-online.com/...000S/gp4000S_en.html

In 2011 the Attack&force was tested (w/o the 4000S) and won IIRC.

I'd like to see some data on the TT with an 808FC. I wonder if they would be faster than the gp4000s.