The roads around these parts (well the ones I like to train on) are proper mucky little single lanes full of potholes and debris and after a slightly frustrating puncture fest last night I’ve decided my solo road winter training this year is going to be done on slower wheels shod with tougher tyres than the Conti grand prix 4 seasons I have been using. I’ll have one pair of wheel with the faster tyres for club rides where I’d get dropped like a stone with draggy wheels and their routes are usually more secondary road based and one with a more bombproof setup for solo rides.
So, Schwable marathons – seems to be the de rigour tyre of choice for such things – but there are some many versions! I have the marathon plus version on another bike but I think they are a bit OTT and heavy for this use and don’t rate the handling with them. Then there is the standard version, “the race”, “the ultimate”, “the dureme” – the list goes on. Do any of you use any of the versions and do you rate them?
