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@reeen
i love the supersport plusses, before schwalbes and *eeeew halo courier berlin
it is the cheapest tire that i get acceptabpe use out of, though i wish they'd actually had scrapped the puncture belt and instead used the same tread rubber throughout and make the tire nice an thick like a soma everwear, but it's me skidding off topic.
i have not used randos as i feel they are too heavy and impossible to source in even 25c.
the supersports in foldable feel almost as fast as the gp4000 - almost.
punctures i had none when they had still all around black rubber on it, but when the yellow shows and it coincides with rain, i did have my innertube deflated by an unwanted penetration of a foreign object.
but to put it into perspective, i am not a heavy rider with 70kg and the circa 4 or 5 times total over a period of 15 monthes that these puctures happened where i used these almost exclusively, i always skidded trough most of the tread and i was kinda asking for a puncture.
fazit: fast rolling, well cornering/gripping tires that deliver real good puncture protection in 23c sizes. also the weak conti sidewall is not an issue, it is fully covered in rubber.