Bomb Proof Tyres For Endurance Cycling – No Flats In Two Seasons! Plus a Training Ride.

Hello and welcome back to the channel! In this episode I’m talking about a subject that comes up often in the comments of the videos. What tyres I use. These have been bomb proof and have lasted two seasons now! I also head out for a solid training ride and get some sun…

This ride – https://www.strava.com/activities/10741008943

The last time I punctured on this setup it’s around 15 months Ago [Applause] He [Applause] [Applause] he good morning welcome to another Ultra cycling related video if you watched any previous ones thanks for coming back if this is your first one my name is Andy and I’m an ultra cyclist on the south coast of England the videos I make are about Ultra cycling training and Adventures

Right now I’m in the thick of my training for the Transcontinental race a 4,000k race from the rubay vome in France to Istanbul so if you have endurance goals of your own subscribe follow along I’m sure there’ll be something in there for you and if not hopefully you teach me Something on the C of today got a pretty chilled ride to be honest just a few hours out of Portsmouth through the South Downs to a place called Petersfield and then back so with this being a shorter ride today it gives me a chance to talk about

Something I’ve been meaning to for a little while question that comes up probably more than any in the comments and actually one I’ve wanted to talk about for a while my tire set up cuz honestly it’s been absolutely bombproof for so long Now I’ve had this setup for the last two winter seasons the last time I punctured on this setup was around 15 months ago so based on that I’d say it works pretty well I’m fully aware as well making this I’m jinxing myself pretty hard and I’m going to have puncture after puncture

But that’s a risk I’m willing to take I’m also going to try to head back and catch the last few laps of the perf pedal race it’s not called that anymore but in Portsmith we’ve got a pretty decent Road Race happens every February it’s kind of the season opener for road racing in England pretty much generally known for being grim

Wet cold it looks like they got a pretty beautiful day for it today believe Alex dson is racing today and he won the race before few years ago was won in the past by Shan Kelly as well so if you watch Euros sport Toral France coverage Shan Kelly is one of the

Commentators and a proper Legend I’ve also got a couple of friends racing in it from my Cycling Club so be good to go and cheer them along started already but I think I got Time It’s so peaceful up here kind of skirting around the edge of buer Hill which is the highest point in the South Towns love it up Here Probably best luck get off the bike for this bit but the reason I wanted to make a video about these tires they’ve been half surprising me and half baffling me for a little while I’ve had the same tires on this bike for two Winters so not the

Same brand and size the same actual tires every Sunday I ride at least around 100 miles sometimes further to lay a bit shorter so it’s pretty important to me that I don’t get pun and flats stranded in subzero conditions in the winter ideally if I can avoid it I

Want to keep rolling don’t we all and these tires have been absolutely faultless so I’m using the Continental Grand Prix 4 season in 32 mil it’s quite big quite chunky but so much more comfortable and just find I can roll through just about anything do try to avoid potholes and flint and whatever

Else still try to avoid that sort of stuff but if I’m about to roll through a pothole don’t have to worry generally they suck up most potholes and stuff like that still hear the crack of flint in the tires and think great that’s going to Flap pretty soon doesn’t

Generally I’m usually waiting to start getting punches the more often I get punches then I know it’s time to change the tires and getting now to the end of the second winter these tires have been on I think they go more to be honest I’m probably going to put these wheels and

These tires onto another bike when I build this one up for the Transcontinental race probably going to put some new wheels and tires on this with a Dynamo Hub and stuff before I’d share that credit where credits due and people do ask quite often about tires so

That’s what I use the last puncture I can remember in full disclosure I did get one on my 400k aax preparing for PBP in the middle of the night the whole group came across a ginormous poth hole in the middle of the road and took out several bikes bodies on the

Floor one guy I know flipped over his handlebars managed to get to the end of the ride the group I was in all three of us hit that pothole and snake bike punctured um you can probably see there the rim is dented so really smashed my

Rear wheel I punctured to that point but then you’re going to puncture on a pothole like that aside from that the last puncture I had on these tires was November last winter so about 15 months hope that helps a few people it’s February now so probably the wrong time

To be talking about winter tires maybe I’ll bring it up again going into next winter but this does affect what I’ll use for the TCR based on how these are performed normally I’d use 28 mil GP 5000 and I think I’ll probably use GP

5000 but go up up to 30 or 32 mil for the TCR those gravel parkours are going to require something like this just some food for thought for you and to answer a few of your questions there’s anything else you’re interested in my setup let me know and I’ll try and cover [Applause] it oh and if you’re interested in knowing how much clearance you need for 32 milk ties with mud guards not very Much The reason I made this one shorter one today just really fatigued trying to juggle this training plan and normal life can be quite a challenge usually getting through the first 3 weeks of my training and into the rest week kind of walk in a fine line with fatigue already so last

Weekend I had some decorating planned in whole renovating part of my flat fortunately got to do that sore thing myself they ended up burning about 7,000 calories that day just in rollering walls sowing wood jumped on the trainer on Thursday through my warm up felt all right right going into threshold I

Managed about 10 minutes before just mentally didn’t have it in me to suffer so it’s usually a pretty good warning it’s time for a break unfortunately it’s too much for one week so I’ll take it easy today and crack back on as of Tuesday to be honest makes a nice change

From always pressing on and no time for cafes and no time to stop nice to have a little chilled ride every now and then Yeah Yeah Yeah Show [Applause] Yeah well just went to watch the race if they’re going really well or I’m really not probably the latter but I think they’re all finished got a few groups looks like they were just warming down so missed the end of the race lived here 40 years now never watched that race but

It’s always next year oh bumped into a a viewer earlier first time ever on a ride Andy thanks for watching and thanks for saying hi all about do it for this one hope you found that useful have a good week I’ll see you on the next one