Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Home Trainer Tire – Indoor Bike Trainer Tire – Foldable Training Bicycle Tire

Update 3/29/19 – over 2100 turbo trainer miles and there is still almost no wear. There is some blackening where the tire contacts the trainer, but that is from the metal of the trainer rubbing off the tire. This thing is ridiculous. I’d happily buy another, but I think it will be decades before I need to.Update 3/29/18 – I now have over 1300 turbo trainer miles on this tire and it still looks new. I notice a tiny amount of red dust on my trainer, but nothing major. In over 1300 miles this tire is still performing like new.I have been using these all winter since getting a smart trainer, well almost. I started with my regular outdoor tire and quickly noticed it was wearing out insanely fast so I decided to order these. I have well over 550 trainer miles on them and you can hardly see any wear. They have excellent traction with my trainer. Mounting them to my wheel was no trouble either. I always use tire levers. I have two of these, one for my bike and one for

Salutations my fellow Amazonians,Boiled down review: this tire comes in a small box (and its super flat), give it some time to just adjust to room temp and to just rest (It sounds like we’re cooking…I know). I’m not going to lie, I cussed a few times trying to get this sucker on my rim but after a few attempts I was able to get it on the rim (keep in mind it doesn’t naturally have the curves/beads to set into the rim) and I was able to pump up the tube to set this sucker in place.I’ve been rocking it on my indoor trainer and I (a) love the color difference between my front and rear tire (oh yes, I went there) and (b) it works.Happy training. Cheers.

Installed on a 2003 Giant ORC medium frame road bike on a Cycle Ops Fluid 2 non-smart indoor trainer. Just received few days ago and have done one ride. Will update in a month or so. The tire has a great feel on the trainer, like its getting good traction, but rolling smoothly, so the feedback is road-like.The tire shape is very flatten in the box and reluctant to take tire shape for install. One note is the package says “must install on hook rimmed wheel” but I’m not seeing this in the description of the product. It was difficult to get the tire to resume shape in order to install, but with some shaping around the wheel, probably being warmed by my hands, the force of stretching the bead around the wheel while flattening/shaping the edge into the wheel eventually worked. Didn’t take too long, honestly, but was weird to negotiate. I would suggest removing tire from package and hanging in with something like a broom stick stuck inside the wheel for it to relax and assume tire shape for a few days.This tire does not have standard road tire height, so you’ll need to be extra careful when stuffing the tube in, the tube will want to wrinkle up and hang out the side. I continued stuffing tube under during those first few inflating pumps and shaping / pulling pushing the wheel while SLOWLY inflating. This seemed to work great.I’ll update on longevity at some point, but I think you buy this with confidence to save your road tires.

If this tire fell apart tomorrow, I’d still be extremely pleased. Very impressed that it has not lost grip, and is still as quiet as ever after all the miles and heat cycles. The lack of noise was a real surprise to me. I assumed a relatively treadless road tire would be similar but there is no comparison. This tire is much quieter. Must be something to do with the case construction.PS: I find the reviews expressing dissatisfaction with a tire lasting “only” a year or two of consistent use really confusing. Maybe a novice cyclist doesn’t know what to expect from a piece of rubber a couple of millimeters thick, pumped up to 100 psi, and pressed against a small axle at high pressure and high speed? As a road racer, I’m happy with any tire that lasts 1200 miles, much less a year or more… whether indoors or out.Either way, I’ll happily be purchasing another of these tires when (if?) this one finally dies.

I swapped out my bike’s regular back tire (a Continental Gatorskin) with this tire when I noticed that the Gatorskin was looking very different on the area where it contacts the trainer — almost as if it was slightly melting. This was alarming, needless to say, because they don’t just give those Gatorskins away. I’m amazed that being in contact with the slick metal on the trainer was apparently doing this much damage to the tire, even though I’ve ridden hundreds of miles on all varieties of pavement in hot and cold weather, and the Gatorskin holds up great.Anyway, the bright red color of this trainer tire means there’s no mistaking it for an actual road tire, and it already (after only a few 30 min trainer rides) seems to hold up better than my actual road tire. Can’t speak to longevity yet, as I only just got it.It’s definitely quieter on the trainer, too. That’s a bonus.