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My current fleet is kitted out with:
Rubino Pros
Corsa Evo II (the nice 320TPI ones!)
Vred Fortezza Quattro
Conti GP3000
The thing is, conti don't have much of a serious range, and their only "good" tyre (GP4000s) is a complete compromise, albeit a good one by all accounts. Like the GP3000. You can train on it, because it lasts but is neither cheap nor last ages, you could race on it but it's rather slow, it's not such a great ride and the thing squares off very fast, it's heavy,
With Vittoria, you have a tyre for every occasion, and outstanding ones at that! Rubino Pros are excellent (bettered only by the Vred Fortezza Quattro IMO) and make super-solid high milage tyres that are perfect for training, and you could race on them too. Corsa Evos, well what more can I say, they ride brilliantly, roll very fast, grip and feel is excellent, particularly in the dry. If it's wet they're more than adequate (frankly, wet riding is more down to the rider than the tyre!), but then you have the Open Pave or the Diamante Pro Tech. Diamante pro light get very good feedback from other riders and are genuinely very light.
No other manufacturer has that. Vredestein only has a couple of decent tyres, albeit very decent ones - the Quattro is a rubino pro killer, as above. The Tricomp is a serious race tyre for those on a budget. Schwalbe, maybe, but they're in the same boat. The Ultremo looks excellent, and I've have bought it were there not so many pictures on the web of Ultremos with seriously f****d up sidewalls and casings blowouts. Ultremo DD looks a great concept but aren't really on the shelves. Stelvio, meant to be not bad as a fast training tyre. Better/cheaper than rubino pros? probably not.
Vittoria FTW.