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The new Cont's like most conti tyres are tight to fit out of the box.
The way to go is to put them on "stretching"rims at 10 bar for a few days and then glue the base tapes and let that dry for a day and put them back on the "stretching" rims until you are ready to fit them to prepared rims on your shamals. The final fitting of the tyres to a rim wet with the final coat of glue is relatively easy then if you get an assistant to be on hand to get the final bit of the tyre opposite the valve lifted on. The old Sonderclass 165 / 175 were robust tyres, the new ones more so with better rubber on them.
Vittoria Pista EVO's are nice to ride, very easy to fit but a bit fragile and are best kept for the competition carbon disks / five spokes in my opinion.
We are using the Vittoria Crono EVO tyres on some of our best race wheels, very easy to fit, a little heavier ( 5 or 10 G) than the Pista EVO but significantly more robust and cheap at £ 35 or so.
I have been sticking all sorts of tyres on to all sorts of track wheels continuously since 1979 and if you asked me I would put Crono's on your shamals .