Continental Addiction

[Alex11]

I don't know why, I've just got a love for Continental. Everything! Tyres, water bottles, jerseys, tyre levers, stickers etc.

They are just such a quality brand - I love the German engineering precision.


Anyone else in the same boat?

 

[PpPete]

Continental tyres are horribly difficult to get on. Much prefer Michelins.
Conti inner tube valves are a bit suspect too. Schwalbes are better IME.

 

[Alex11]

I know they aren't actually the best, I just love it? I don't know why?

 

[black'n'yellow]

Continental tyres are horribly difficult to get on. Much prefer Michelins.
Conti inner tube valves are a bit suspect too. Schwalbes are better IME.

Any tyre can be hard/easy to fit, depending on which rim it is being fitted to - some combinations work better than others. My new Conti CX tyres went on to my EA70s using only my thumbs. Other tyres, on other rims, you might need a crowbar....

 

[MattHB]

Continental tyres are horribly difficult to get on. Much prefer Michelins.
Conti inner tube valves are a bit suspect too. Schwalbes are better IME.

Ive never had any issues at all getting them on. And neither with valves.

 

[PpPete]

I do like the yellow valve caps though !

 

[Rob3rt]

I had sore thumbs for days following fitting a pair of Gatorskins to a set of Mavic Ellipse track wheels (which I use on the road, not racing on the track with Gatorskins ), dread the day they have to come back off.

 

[lejogger]

Continental tyres are horribly difficult to get on. Much prefer Michelins.
Conti inner tube valves are a bit suspect too. Schwalbes are better IME.

I have Contis on the carbon and Michelin on the commuter. I struggled just as much with both!!
The conti inner tube valves are a right pain because they only ever tighten them to a hand pressure. It's not an issue with the track pump that clips on and off but when your 'on the bike' hand pump has a screw on attachment and you've forgotten to tighten your spare tube valve with pliers there is actually nothing worse than having just finished a repair, spent 5 minutes getting the pressure right back up, and then hearing that pffffffft as you slowly unscrew the pump and half the valve unscrews itself and you're back to square one.

I do like the yellow valve caps though !

Valve caps? Are you sure they're allowed?!

 

[PpPete]

I have Contis on the carbon and Michelin on the commuter. I struggled just as much with both!!

As mentioned above - rims vary too. I started a (hopefully useful) thread about this in ANOTHER PLACE

Valve caps? Are you sure they're allowed?!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I prefer them over owt else. However the mtb is shod in Schwalbe rubber at present.

 

[User6179]

Continental tyres are horribly difficult to get on. Much prefer Michelins.
Conti inner tube valves are a bit suspect too. Schwalbes are better IME.

Swapped from ultremos zx to gp4000s and found them a bit tighter but I could take the ultremos off without tyre levers so i think any tyre would be tighter .
If i was offered conti tubes for free i think I would decline after using them (maybe faulty batch but all 6 were a pain), schwalbe tubes I find to be the best as they rarely need pumped up and are slighty bigger with less joins than others so seem easier to repair compaired to say a halfords tube.
I wont even start on gatorskins

 

[slowmotion]

I've got Continental Grand Prix 4 Season tyres at the moment. They were an absolute nightmare to fit first time. Quite unlike anything else, including M+.

 

[Tynan]

conti super sport plus is my commuter tyre of choice at present, seemingly invulnerable and handle well, I'm hard on rear tyres but the present one is now a year old, square and showing the orange breaker belt all the way round and still no deflations, the new one I bought to replace it has been resting in the hall for months

as for fitting to mavic open pros, yes, a tweak from the tyre lever is usually called for for the last bit

 

[lejogger]

I've got Continental Grand Prix 4 Season tyres at the moment. They were an absolute nightmare to fit first time. Quite unlike anything else, including M+.

you see I found the 4 seasons an absolute doddle on my cx, but the michelin were a nightmare.

Perhaps this is an inexact science?

 

[slowmotion]

you see I found the 4 seasons an absolute doddle on my cx, but the michelin were a nightmare.

Perhaps this is an inexact science?

The Conti 4 Seasons were a problem for me because they were so blooming floppy, unlike the Marathon Plus which were finger-bleeding stiff. The Contis didn't seen to want to "pop" onto the rim anywhere at all.
You are of course absolutely right....it's all down to the Karma at the time!