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Schwalbe Stelvio Plus
** Grip 7/10**
When I went to Cavendish Cycles I ask them to recommend me a tyres that should take some skidding abuse, and they point this tyres out, despite it's almost smooth rubber it grip rather well, even in the wet allowing me to skid-stop in confident without a sudden slip (a sudden slips like when you skid on some ice), I can safety assumed that this tyres will perform really well in the dry, but probably not as good as a Gatorskin.
Wear 8/10
so far since the 10th of October, there's little wear and tear despite going brakeless, the only obvious wear is simply the expected rubber softness but that all.
Puncture Protection 8/10
Insofar, no puncture but then I didn't get any puncture in the inferior Ultra Sport that is known as a magnetic for puncture, but feeling the rubber between the Gatorskin and the Stelvio Plus, the Stelvio felt noticably thicker and stronger than the Gatorskin.
Comfort 7/10
it's pretty reasonable, it's quite a stiff tyre that can go all the way up to 145psi, almost knocking on tubular territory.
Weight (or perceived rolling weight) 5/10
the tyre felt heavy when riding, probably because of the extra weight of the puncture resistance of the Plus (340g compared to the standard Stelvio which weight a mere 235g), heavy for even a folding tyres!
Speed (rolling resistance) 7/10
Despite it's heavy weight, it doesn't felt hard work to keep the bike up to an average speed, when cornering you can actually feel the rubber on the road rather than feeling like you're cornering on a very small grip area of the side wall, the rounded sidewall keep it nice and grippy in corner or not.
Appearance (or Looks, if it comes in colours) 9/10
this is purely personal preference really but I like an all-black tyres with a simple white type, also it look almost like a tubular tyres when you look at how rounded the sidewall are.
Price 7.5/10
It's not so bad, had it not been for the heavy weight of the puncture protection, it would have been a better value for money, online you can get it for £25 which is an average price for a good tyre, in shop it's about £30-35.
Skidability 9/10
fucking love it, it's hard at first as it was quite grippy but as the tyre wear a bit, it's perhaps the most controllable tyre to skid on insofar, but I'm bias as the last tyre I have use is an Ultra Sport.
Overall rating/opinion 7/10 (67.5 out of 90 overall)
It's a decent tyres that give a reasonable amount of grips yet still able to skid with ease and without worried of wearing the tyres out easily, the letdown is that you can actually felt the weight, it's not obvious but for weight weenie like Tynan, he'd probably hung the tyres up for blasphemy.